Shawnee Mission School District High School Course Syllabus

Course Modern World History Teacher: Brie Meschke Number 3372 School: Shawnee Mission East

Department Social Studies Year: 2013-2014

Course Modern world History is a survey course that gives students the opportunity to explore recurring Description themes of human experience common to civilizations around the globe. After a review of early world history, the focus of study will be from the Renaissance to contemporary times and will include a study of the historical roots and events of Asia and Africa. Students will broaden their historical thinking, examine significant events, ideas, and movements. Additionally students will explore how world societies have dealt with continuity and change as well as war and peace. Internal stability and strife, and the contributions culmination in modern civilization. Theme: Connecting Themes and Historical Thinking Skills Primary 3372.100 BIG IDEA 1. The learner will recognize, use and evaluate the methods and tools valued by historians, compare the views of historians and trace the themes, trends and Objectives movements of history. 1. Analyze and interpret a variety of primary and secondary sources to compare multiple perspectives, trace themes, and detect bias about events and eras of modern world history. 2. Relate geography, anthropology, political science, sociology, archaeology and economics to the study of history. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of cause and effect, time, continuity, and perspective. 4. Examine multiple cause and effect relationships that have shaped modern world history. 5. Demonstrate the ability to use appropriate analysis strategies to interpret information from various sources and graphic representations. 6. Participate in document based analysis and essay writing by incorporating Document Based Question (DBQ) strategies. 7. Use maps, globes, artifacts, documents and pictures to analyze the physical and cultural landscapes of the world as well as the geographic features important to the study of world history. 8. Apply current events and contemporary issues by relating them to events and eras in modern world history. 9. Evaluate the relationship between religion and war. Essential Questions:  How and why does history influence human kind?  What skills, process and sciences help us to uncover the past? Theme: Bridging Early World History to Big Eras IV and V. 3372.200 BIG IDEA 2. The learner will investigate the significant events, people, and conditions involved in the growth of monarchial and imperial systems of government in the world. 1. Trace the political and social development of monarchies and empires, including but not limited to the Ming and Manchu dynasties, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Moghul (Mughal) Empire. 2. ▲Analyze the significance of the beginning and the end of the great sea voyages of the Ming Dynasty of China 3. Analyze the rise and achievements of African civilizations as well as the reasons for their decline. 4. Evaluate the achievements of the major civilizations of the Americas in the pre-Columbian era (include Aztec, Incas, and Mayas). 5. Describe events in Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity and to the emergence of nation states in order to analyze the events on aspects of life in medieval Europe. WRDHIS 4/9/2018 6. Analyze the social, economic, political and cultural effects of the Black Death on Europe. 7. Analyze the common reasons for the fall of empires and civilizations throughout the world. Essential Questions:  How and why do civilizations change overtime?  What aspects of civilizations are common across time and location?  What led to the rise of monarchial and imperial systems of government in various parts of the world? Theme: Reformation, Renaissance, Revolution and Nationalism 3372.300 BIG IDEA 3 The learner will analyze the cause and effects of movements seeking change and will evaluate the sources and consequences of nationalism. 1. Understand the changes in European thought and culture resulting from the establishment of Protestant faiths, the Counter-Reformation, the Gutenberg Press, and the Catholic vs. Protestant religious wars. 2. Identify the conflicts that challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church which led to the Protestant Reformation. 3. Explain the effects of the theological, political and economic differences that emerged, including the views and actions of Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I. 4. ▲Describe the regional trade patterns that developed by 1500 and their importance in linking Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. 5. Trace social, political, economic and cultural changes associated with the Renaissance, Reformation, the rise of nation-states and absolutism. 6. ▲Evaluate the economic and social consequences of early European expansion through the study of emerging European power, the rise of mercantilism, the Columbian Exchange and its impact on the indigenous people in the Western hemisphere as well as Africa. 7. Analyze the essential concepts of the Scientific Revolution found in: heliocentric theory, natural law and the scientific method. 8. ▲Using the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft and Rousseau as well as the ideas found in enlightened despotism and the salons, demonstrate an understanding of the essential concepts from this period that represent a turning point in intellectual history. 9. Analyze the causes and assess the influence of seventeenth to nineteenth century political revolutions in England, North America, and France on individuals, governing bodies, church-state relations, and diplomacy. 10. Evaluate the growth of nationalism as a contributor to 19th century European revolutions (e.g., in the Balkans, France, German and Italy). 11. ▲Evaluate the causes and effectiveness of nineteenth and twentieth century nationalistic and anti-colonial movements that challenged European domination in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Including but not limited to the Boxer Rebellion, Zulu Uprising, Haitan Revolution, Tai Ping Rebellion, Sepoy Rebellion. 12. ▲German unification – see theme: Social Order Power and Change part of Big Idea 6 13. ▲Japanese Meiji Reformation- see theme: Social Order Power and Change part of Big Idea 6 Essential Questions:  What causes people to seek economic, political, social or religious change?  What philosophies have supported the rise of revolutions and nationalism over time? Mini DBQ: District Document Based Question Activity: Estimated time 3 class periods  Exploration or Reformation: Consequences of the Printing Press. Theme: Global Wars and Conflict 3372.500 BIG IDEA 4 The learner will analyze the causes, results and effects of twentieth century conflicts among nations. 1. Analyze the causes and course of World War I and assess its consequences. 2. Examine the causes and effects of the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution and its effect on Russia and the world. 3. Assess the significance of World War I on global foreign and domestic policies of the 1920s and 1930s. 4. ▲Analyze the causes and course of World War II and assess its consequences. 5. Evaluate WWII as the end of one era and the beginning of another. WRDHIS 4/9/2018 6. ▲Trace the course of the Cold War and judge its impact on the global community (including but not limited to the Korean War, Eastern European satellite nations and the Vietnam War). Essential Questions:  Why were there global conflicts in the twentieth century and how were these conflicts resolved?  What factors seem to be constant in global war? Mini DBQ: District Document Based Question Activity: Estimated time 3 class periods  TBD Impact of Technology 3372.600 BIG IDEA 5 The learner will analyze the short and long term consequences of the development of new technology throughout modern world history. 1. Assess the degree to which discoveries, innovations and technologies have caused change. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the major technological and scientific exchanges in the Eastern Hemisphere about 1500 C.E. 3. Examine the causes and effects of scientific revolutions and cite their major costs and benefits. 4. Examine the causes and effects of industrialization and cite its major costs and benefits. Theme: Social Order, Power and Change 3372.700 BIG IDEA 6 The learner will investigate social and economic organization in various societies throughout time in order to understand the change in power that has occurred. 1. Compare the conditions, racial composition and status of social classes, castes, and slaves in world societies and analyze changes in those elements. 2. Evaluate the effects of colonialism on Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. 3. Trace the development of internal conflicts due to difference in religion, race, culture and group loyalties in various areas of the world. 4. ▲Analyze the nature of totalitarianism in fascist Germany and Communist Soviet Union. 5. ▲Compare and contrast the German, Italian and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930’s. 6. . Examine the causes and effects of the Holocaust. 7. Examine the governmental policies and the role of organizations established to maintain peace and pledge their continuing effectiveness. (Including but not limited to Kellogg- Briand Pact, the League of Nations, and the United Nations). 8. Analyze the emergence of the Middle East as an influential region and a region of continuing conflict. 1. Include the creation of the state of Israel 2. Post War Middle East 3. Nationalism 4. The Suez Crisis 5. Petroleum based interdependence 6. Historical Palestinian and Jewish conflict Essential Questions:  What has led to the changing nature of social order over time?  What are the social order issues of the twenty-first century?

2013-2014 WORLD HISTORY by Spielvogel, published by Glencoe, 2005 Textbook Used

TOPIC QUARTER

Major Topics 1 st Quarter: Overview of Ancient Civilizations with a concentration on Covered by Greece & Rome. World Religions and Eastern philosophies. Middle Ages,

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2 nd Quarter: Renaissance and Reformation, Exploration, The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Classical Music.

3 rd Quarter: French Revolution, ISMS, WWI

4 th Quarter: WWII, Cold War, Contemporary Western World, Most Influential Figures In History

Method of In world history we will: Evaluation • Take notes and have discussions • Socratic Seminars (preparation and discussion method commonly used in college) • Creating of cartoons, play games, etc. • debate • Assessments (quizzes, tests, projects, presentations)

Student Syllabus: Expectations/ • Participation is essential to be successful in this class Responsibilities • Respect for others • Be on time to class (4 tardies=Friday School) • There will be homework • Always give best effort • Make a short term & long term goal

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