World History
Global Trade
(1300-1750)
Unit Compelling Questions
Instructions: Choose one or more Compelling Questions (CQ) for the unit based on your available time. Each Supporting Question (SQ) is sequenced and scaffolded for the Compelling Question.
Note: Starred (*) Compelling Questions are in the H.S. World History example Planning & Pacing Guide.
CQ: What are the effects of the Columbian Exchange?
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District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
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CQ: How can exploration be a progress and a decline for civilizations?
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: How did trade affect the rise and fall of civilizations?
SQ 2: Should We Celebrate the Voyages of Zheng He? (DBQ World History V2)
SQ 3: Exploration or Reformation: Which Was the More Important Consequence of the Printing Press? (DBQ World History V2)
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
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CQ: What is the impact of the creation of race?
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: Why was the concept of race invented?
SQ 2: How did labor systems create hierarchies in Atlantic World trade?
SQ 3: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Who Was Most Responsible? (U.S. Vol 1 Mini-Qs Units 13-24)
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
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CQ: How is resistance historically significant in understanding colonialism?
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Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: How did African peoples resist European colonization?
SQ 2: How did Europeans interact with indigenous peoples?
SQ 3: What happened when Moctezuma met Cortés? (SHEG)
SQ 4: How did Indigenous peoples resist European colonization?
SQ 5: California Missions: How did Native Americans resist? (DBQ U.S. Vol 1 Mini-Qs Units 13-24)
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
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CQ: How do economies change over Time?
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: How did the economies of the Atlantic world change over time?
SQ 2: What Drove the Sugar Trade? (DBQ World History)
SQ 3: What technologies influenced trade?
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
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