FALL SEMESTER
Unit One: Introduction & Comparative World Religions
Theme: Beliefs
Case Studies: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Focus Questions: How do the world’s major religions seek to answer universal human questions? How do different religions generate and spread membership?
Concept Questions: Why do we believe what we believe; how do our perspectives shape our interpretations and understandings?
Culminating Assessments: TIQA (evidenced-based paragraph response)
Unit Two: The Age of Revolutions clink link to HOMEWORK
Case Studies: Revolutions in Europe: The Enlightenment, French Revolution, Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution
Theme: Change
Focus Question: What were the effects of new political and economic ideas in Europe 1700-1890?
Concept Question: What changes do revolutions produce? Specifically, what are the economic, technological, political, social, and geographic causes of change in human societies?Case Study Assessments: Philosophers Round Table Seminar,
Culminating Assessment: The trial of Archibald Hyatt Smith, a fictional industrialist.
Unit Three: World International Conflicts 1870-present
Case Studies: WWI, WWII Japan and the Pacific, Vietnam and the Cold War
Theme: Power
Focus Questions:How did competing national needs for power and security lead to war? Why did Nationalism overpower individualism during WWI? Was Japanese imperialism necessary to maintain Japanese sovereignty? Was the war in Vietnam a war for independence or communism?
Concept Question: Why do we fight? What economic, political, social, and geographic factors lead nations to fight with each other?
Case Study Assessments: WWI evidence outline, Simulation of Japanese government deliberations regarding the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Culminating Assessment: Traditional Multiple Choice Conflict Unit Exam (Semester Final)
SPRING SEMESTER
Unit Four: Emergence and Development of New Nations 1900-present
Case Studies: Communist China HOMEWORK, India
Theme: Development
Focus Questions: How can the study of China’s past help us to understand Chinese reactions to modern events? In order for China’s rise to continue, what does the next set of leaders have to do and what do they have to guard against? How did India resist British colonization? What makes non-violence work?
Concept Questions: What is good government? What is the most effective way to lead?
Case Study Assessment: China’s Re-emergence simulation
Culminating Assessment: Comparative Essay Exam
Unit Five: Challenges to Democracy and Human Rights
Case studies: South Africa, Israeli & Palestinian Theme: Injustice/ Justice
Focus Questions: Has the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission effectively delivered on its mandate to find the truth and reconcile the people of South Africa to the injustices of their apartheid past? Is Israel’s control of the Palestinians an example of Apartheid?
Concept Questions: How do we deal with injustice? How is conflict an expression of unmet needs? What is the role of perspective in conflict
Case Study Assessments: Formal class Socratic Seminar Discussion for South Africa,
Culminating Assessment: Position debate for Israel & Palestine on unit focus question
There will be a Comprehensive Final Exam during exam week in June.
SAVE all of your WH fall and spring course work to prepare for the final!!!
Texts: World History: Patterns of Interaction Roger Beck, McDougal Littell, 1999.
Assigned Unit Reading packets, article handouts, film clip, and on-line resources.
Instructor: Ms. Carey Eubank Shannon.Eubank@bellinghamschools.org 676-6470 ext. 5239