Syncretism
Slavery
Colonization
Imperialism
Research
Migration
Cultural Exchange
Anthropology
Archaeology
Racialization
How do current political affairs impact historic research?
What makes a historical source credible?
What are some of the motivations behind migration?
How do cultures interact and shape each other?
How are ideas of truth, faith, and religion spread?
What are some of the mechanisms of colonization?
How can historic crimes be addressed today?
Why are some groups overlooked in the writing of shared histories?
What is the importance of a society's shared historical view?
How has the face of Empire changed over time?
Multiple instructional strategies will be employed throughout class time. Strategies will be tailored to students' needs and preferred learning styles. This is meant to provide myriad routes of access to the enduring understandings of the class. The instructional strategies of this class include:
Socratic Seminar - Meant to bolster students' logical and critical thinking through the posing of a carefully constructed sequence of questions for discussion.
Lecturing/direct instruction - A deductive method made up of curated oral presentation interspersed with images, videos, opportunities for reflection, clarification, and sense making.
Graphic Organizers - Visual diagrams meant to provide students with new means of imagining and arranging information.
Synectics - An approach centered on teacher and students developing and sharing similes, analogies, and metaphors that build a bridge between students' prior knowledge or experience and new concepts.
Cooperative Learning - Students will be expected to research assigned topics independently or in small groups and present their findings to the class. Meant to increase collaboration, deepen thinking and understanding, and enhance feelings of empathy and citizenship.
Project-based learning - An inductive method based around presenting students with a novel and complex problem, which can be solved through collaborative investigation with teacher guidance and coaching.
Close-reading worksheets - Students will be given a particularly complex or difficult reading or primary source along with a structured series of questions meant to draw out essential information and provide novel ways of approaching the material.