Law Education Syllabus

World History Honors Syllabus – Mr. Ken Littlejohn

Class description – World History is an intermediate level survey of the key events of from the Middle Ages to the present day. Students will be asked to do daily and nightly assignments which would include reading, analyzing historical documents, writing essays and evaluating historiography of various events. This course is meant to challenge students who are interested in academic rigor as well as knowledge in the social studies field.

Class attendance – Attendance is necessary as well as mandatory. Excessive absences or tardies will not be tolerated. An excess of absences could result in a denial of credit.

Materials – The student should bring a textbook and notebook with paper as well as a pencil or pen to class every day.

Grading - Students are graded every nine weeks on the following criteria :

Major test average = 50% of grade Daily average = 25% of grade Homework average = 25% of grade Semester exam = 10% of the semester grade

The students average will be determined from the average of each semester grade.

Make up work – Students that miss a test will have one week to make up that test after they return to school before a grade of zero will be entered. Students are allowed to retake a quiz or major test that is below a grade of 80 during a nine weeks period. The format to the test will be similar to the original but with not the exact same questions as before. Students who want to make up a test need to do so outside of normal class time. The most points that can be obtained will be 80.

Missed assignments need to be made up the day after the student returns to school, unless otherwise stated. Twenty points will be deducted from a daily or homework grade for each school day that it is not turned in. Sixty points will be the most points subtracted for late work, provided that it is turned in. Those who fail to make up any work of any type will receive a zero for that grade. Students are responsible for finding out about missed assignments and turning them in.

Class rules – Be accountable (Be on time to class, have your materials, your school ID and complete your assignments)

Be respectful (Of yourself, of your teachers and of your classmates – treat others with dignity and courtesy)

Be orderly (Do not talk out of turn or cause disturbances that detracts from a good learning environment)

Be aware of why we are here (The purpose of school is to get an education)

Be reminded (All students are to follow the rules of the Greenville Tech Charter students hand book)

Students will be kept after school for detention for breaking class rules. Continuous infractions will result in office referrals.

After hours help : I have Wednesday afternoons from 2:50 – 3:20 as office hours for personal tutoring and help. Students can also receive assistance other days after school per a request.

Contact – Parents you can contact me by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone after school at 250 – 8852. The best time to call me during school is before 9:30 on A days and after 1:25 on B days. Please call the front office (250-8844) for me during school hours since someone else will be teaching in my room.

Outside readings – The Tools of Empire : Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by Daniel R. Headrick and The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan Scope and sequence

STANDARD 1 - Standard MWH-1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the major factors that facilitated exchanges among groups of people and how exchanges influenced those people in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

DAYS – AUGUST 10, 15,17,18, 22, 24, 29, 31, September 1, 5 AND 7

TOPICS – MIDDLE AGES COMMUNITIES, MOVEMENT TO CITIES AND AWAY FROM MANORS, BANKING, CRUSADES, RENAISSANCE, EXPLORATION, INFLUENCE OF THE MING OVER EAST ASIA

Chapters : 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

STANDARD 3 - Standard MWH-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of religious movements throughout the world in the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.

DAYS – September 12, 14,15, 19, 21, 26, 28, 29, October 3 AND 5

TOPICS – THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, GERMAN PEASANTS WAR, WARS IN FRANCE, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, THIRTY YEARS WAR, RISE AND SPREAD OF HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM, AFRICAN RELIGIONS, RISE AND SPREAD OF ISLAM

Chapters : 3, 8, 11, 15, 18, 19

STANDARD 2 - Standard MWH-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the benefits and costs of the growth of kingdoms into empires from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.

DAYS – October 10, 12, 17, 19, 20, 26, 31, November 2, 3 AND 7

TOPICS – GROWING AND CHANGING KINGDOMS AROUND THE WORLD, MESOAMERICAN KINGDOMS, COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE, MUGHAL EMPIRE, OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Chapters : 9, 16, 18 STANDARD 4 - Standard MWH-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the conflicts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia.

DAYS – November 9, 14, 16, 17, 21, 28, 30, December 5, 7 AND 8

TOPICS – CREATION OF THE NATION STATE, OLD IMPERIALISM, DECLINE OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, RISE OF FRANCE, BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS, THE QIN AND MING DYNASTIES, THE SLAVE TRADE, MERCANTILSIM

Chapters : 16, 17, 19

STANDARD 5 - Standard MWH-5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the influence of ideas and technology on the development of nation-states and empires in the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

DAYS – JANUARY 4, 9, 11, 12, 16, 18, 23, 25, 26, 30, February 1

TOPICS - SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, ENLIGHTENMENT, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTIONALISM, ECONOMIC IDEAS (CAPITALISM VS MARXISM)

Chapters : 20, 22, 23, 24, 26

STANDARD 6 - The student will demonstrate an understanding of the creation of nation- states in Europe and the struggle by non-European nations to gain and/or maintain sovereignty.

DAYS – February 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23, 27, March 1 and 6

TOPICS – FRENCH REVOLUTION, LATIN AMERICAN REBELLIONS, NATIONALISM AND THE REBELLIONS OF 1820, 1830, 1848

Chapters : 21, 24, 25

STANDARD 7 - Standard MWH-7: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes and consequences of global warfare in the first half of the twentieth century.

DAYS – MARCH 8, 9, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, APRIL 10 AND 12

TOPICS - WW I, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, AGE OF ANXIETY, GREAT DEPRESSION, WW II, EFFECTS OF WW II

Chapters : 27, 28, 30, 31 STANDARD 8 - Standard MWH-8: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes and consequences of decolonization in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

TOPICS – DECOLONIZATION, INDIA, AFRICA, APARTHEID, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, COLD WAR, UNIFICATION OF GERMANY, FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION, BALKANIZATION

DAYS – APRIL 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, MAY 1, 3, 8, 10 AND 11

Chapters : 32, 33, 34, 35, 36