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Welcome to Modern World History
Course Syllabus - click here
Welcome to Modern World History. The general focus of the course will be based around developing an answer for the essential question: “What does the term ‘modern’ mean in the phrase ‘modern world’?”
Course Calendar
Section 1 - DE Block
10/ 9 - Work With Statistics & History
10/13 - No Class - Essay Due
10/14 - Answer Questions for Reading and Videos Overview of the Global Economy
10/15 - In Class Activity
10/19 - Quiz on Reading Technology & Industrial Revolutions and Answer Questions for Homework # 2
10/20 - Quiz on Reading Network Effect & Globalization and Answer Questions for Homework # 3
10/22 - In Class Activity
10/23 - Quiz on Reading Economic Growth & Urbanization and Answer Questions for Homework # 4
10/27 - In Class Activity
10/28 - Quiz on Reading Economic Conflict and Answer Questions for Homework # 5
10/30 - Review for Test
11/2 - Test on Building the Global Economy
Section 2 - A Block
10/5 - Classwork on Essay Writing
10/7 - Classwork on Essay Writing - Evidence and Reasoning
10/8 - Classwork on Essay Writing - Writing & Revision (Essay Due on Friday - 10/9)
10/ 13 - Essay Due - Work With Statistics & History
10/14 - Answer Questions for Reading and Videos Overview of the Global Economy
10/16 - In Class Activity
10/19 - Quiz on Reading Technology & Industrial Revolutions and Answer Questions for Homework # 2
10/21 - Quiz on Reading Network Effect & Globalization and Answer Questions for Homework # 3
10/22 - In Class Activity
10/26 - Quiz on Reading Economic Growth & Urbanization and Answer Questions for Homework # 4
10/27 - In Class Activity
10/29 - Quiz on Reading Economic Conflict and Answer Questions for Homework # 5
10/30 - Review for Test
11/4 - Test on Building the Global Economy
Section 3 - D Block
10/6 - Classwork on Essay Writing
10/7 - Classwork on Essay Writing - Evidence and Reasoning
10/9 - Classwork on Essay Writing - Writing & Revision
10/ 13 - Essay Due - Work With Statistics & History
10/15 - Answer Questions for Reading and Videos Overview of the Global Economy
10/16 - In Class Activity
10/19 - Quiz on Reading Technology & Industrial Revolutions and Answer Questions for Homework # 2
10/20 - Quiz on Reading Network Effect & Globalization and Answer Questions for Homework # 3
10/21 - In Class Activity
10/23 - Quiz on Reading Economic Growth & Urbanization and Answer Questions for Homework # 4
10/26 - In Class Activity
10/28 - Quiz on Reading Economic Conflict and Answer Questions for Homework # 5
10/29 - Review for Test
11/2 - Test on Building the Global Economy
Important Test Information - (Copy of Review Sheet)
The test will have one section and be worth 40 points (point of reference - quizzes and home works are usually 10 points each) This is a link to the review sheet for the unit.
Connecting unit terms to larger ideas of the unit - you will be given five key terms from the unit and you will have to write a paragraph that uses all the terms correctly and in a way that connects them to a larger idea in the unit - this idea will be stated in the question with the list of terms. The unit terms are on the first page for each unit and listed below. There will be three lists of an idea and five terms on the test and you will have to write an answer for two of the lists (your choice).
This is an example of a quesiton and anwer - click here
Key Terms for Unit
Louis XVI
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Will of the People
Estates General
Ancient Regime
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
The Bastille
Great Fear
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Marquis Lafayette
Culottes
Sans-Culottes
Constitution of 1791
Legislative Assembly
Jacobins
National Convention
September Massacres
Revolutionary Tribunals
Girondin
Montagnards ("The Mountain")
Committee for Public Safety
Maximilian Robespierre
Enemies of the People
Levee en Mass
Reign of Terror
Republic of Virtue
Thermidorean Reaction
Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Coup d'etat
Napoleonic Code
Lycees - Meritocracy
Congress of Vienna
Concert of Europe
Institutions
Edmund Burke
Tyranny of the Majority
Civil Society
Alex de Tocqueville
July Revolution (1830)
Louis Phillip - Citizen King
Second Republic (1848)
Louis Napoleon - Napoleon III
Building the Empire
Liberal Empire
Franco-Prussian War
Third Republic
The Commune
The term “modern” when used to describe Modern History involves a lot of ideas about how the human societies in the world work today compared to how they worked in the past. A good place to begin in understanding modern world history is to think of the ideas that most people use to define what makes the modern world “modern”. Two principal ideas that stand out in defining the modern world are personal freedom and the nation-state. The idea that individual people should have large amounts of personal freedom and that governments represent and rule for the benefit of the people of a country are historically new ideas that would have been inconceivable to most people for most of human history. Modern world history studies the process by which these ideas became the norm throughout most of the world.
The class will be approaching the answer to this question over the course of the world through two additional questions:
• First Semester – How did the world become “modern”?
• Second Semester – Is the whole world currently “modern”?
The course will study history through the lens of four major questions:
• Should society be governed from the top-down or from the bottom-up?
• Why is it so hard to form a stable democracy?
• How much power should the government have in the economy?
• Should countries be based on a national identity?
Specifically, the course will focus on the periods of history organized into the following units:
First Semester:
Start of Modern World
Revolutionary France
Building the Global Economy
World War One
World War Two in Europe
Cold War
Second Semester:
Modern India
Modern Asia - Focus on China & Japan
Modern Middle East
Modern Africa
Modern Latin America
This course will also work on developing thinking skills - specifically the skills used in analytical and critical thinking.
Key Terms
Modern Economic Growth
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Productivity
Industrial Revolution
Richard Arkwright - Factory System
James Watt - Steam Engine
Abraham Darby - Iron
Bessemer Process - Steel
Michael Faraday - Electricity
Fredrick Taylor - Scientific Management
Age of Progress
Automation
Luddities
Network Effect
Globalization
"Workshop of the World"
George Stephenson - The Rocket
Robert Fulton - The Clermont
Samuel Morse - Telegraph
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
Gottlieb Daimler & Karl Benz - Car
Wright Brothers - Airplane
Standardized Cargo Containers
Knowledge Economy
Technological Leap Frogging
Urbanization
Mega Cities
Surplus Population
Manchester - Cottonopolis
John Snow - Cholera
Joseph Chamberlain - Birmingham
Municipal Socialism
Agglomeration
Migration (Global Free Migration)
Louis Pasteur - Germ Theory of Disease
Green Revolution
World Health Organization - Smallpox
Capitalism
Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
Socialism
Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto
Labor Unions - Collective Bargaining
John Stuart Mill
Labour Party
Social Welfare Programs
John Maynard Keynes
Thirty Golden Years
"off-shoring"
"deindustrializing"
Knowledge Economy
Course Description - This is the link for the course syllabus - click here
Welcome to Modern World History. The general focus of the course will be based around developing an answer for the essential question: “What does the term ‘modern’ mean in the phrase ‘modern world’?”
The class will be approaching the answer to this question over the course of the world through two additional questions:
First Semester – How did the world become “modern”?
Second Semester – Is the whole world currently “modern”?
The course will study history through the lens of four major questions:
Should society be governed from the top-down or from the bottom-up?
Why is it so hard to form a stable democracy?
How much power should the government have in the economy?
Should countries be based on a national identity?
In addition to studying history, this course will also be focused on developing skills for organizing and communicating complex ideas and concepts. The ability to organize materials and communicate ideas in a clear and effective manner is a crucial skill in today’s world. At their roots, organizing and communicating are thinking skills. The class will be doing the following types of projects to develop organization and communication skills:
Writing essays on the topics of the major questions addressed by the course
Creating visuals to show data, historical events and causal relationships
Building a web page to show research on a topic in the current world
Making a documentary video about a topic on the current world
Extra Credit Opportunity - Link to History Fair Projects
Information for Mid-Year Test - January 30th Moved to Tuesday, February 3rd
The Mid-Year Test will consist of an in-class 60 question multiple choice test and a take home essay.
This is a list of key terms for the multiple choice - click here
This is a sample questions: The Enlightenment philosopher who wrote the book the Wealth of Nations _____ is considered the founder of the economic theory of capitalism and the philosopher _____ who wrote the book the Communist Manifesto considered the founder of communism.
A. Denis Diderot, Karl Marx. C. Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx.
B. Adam Smith, Karl Marx. D. Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes.
A good way to study is to go back and read the overviews for each unit.
This is the take home essay question: Considering the whole period of history the class has covered this year, from the Absolute Monarchs and Enlightenment to Modern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics, what do you consider to be the three most important specific events in the development of the modern world, based on the liberal value system system, democracy and free markets?
Note - A specific event would be the Battle of Britain, Watt inventing the Steam Engine or the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand. World War One or the Industrial Revolution are too broad to be specific events.
The appropriate length for the take home essay is two pages with 1.5 spacing - quality is more important than quantity.
The first paragraph of your essay should be your thesis statement - there is no need for an intro. The remaining paragraphs should be supporting paragraphs. There is no need for a conclusion.
As a reminder, this is the liberal value system from the start of the year:
12/12 - In-class work on answering the prompt How much credit should the British get for the establishment of democracy in India, the world’s most populous democracy?
Point & Counter Point Reading on the Topic - click here
Form for Submitting Answer - click here
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