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All World History courses (Honors or otherwise) utilize the same targets and indicators for student performance.
WORLD HISTORY INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING TARGETS: Fall Semester
Instructional Objective #1: Students will describe features of classical and medieval civilizations.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can identify important cultural characteristics (especially of government) in Greek and Roman civilizations.
B. I can compare and contrast the social structures of medieval societies in Europe, North Africa and the Middle
East, and Asia.
C. I can compare and contrast technological advances of medieval societies in Europe, North Africa and the
Middle East, and Asia.
D. I can describe the similarities and differences among key religious beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
E. I can describe how key religious beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can lead to conflict.
Instructional Objective #2: Students will analyze new ideas and values that led to the Renaissance, the Protestant
Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution, and evaluate the effects of these societal movements.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can identify reasons the Renaissance was able to emerge in Italy. I can describe how the Renaissance spread
throughout Europe.
B. I can evaluate the significance of developments in Renaissance art and literature.
C. I can summarize the causes, including religious tensions, of the Protestant Reformation.
D. I can describe Martin Luther’s role in the movement to reform the Catholic Church, and how his actions
contribute to the spread of Protestantism.
E. I can explain the religious and secular responses to the Protestant Reformation.
F. I can identify prominent thinkers of the Scientific Revolution, describe their achievements, and examine the
impacts these developments had on the world.
Instructional Objective #3: Students will investigate motives for and effects of European exploration on Africa, Asia,
and the New World.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can list significant European explorers, identify the areas to which each travelled, and describe the motives
behind exploration that drove individual explorers and European governments.
B. I can describe how the interactions of explorers and indigenous peoples changed societies in the New World.
C. I can explain how exploration led to tension among the European powers, and identify steps these nations took
to resolve conflicts that arose.
D. I can summarize how the rise of African slavery impacted the political, economic, social, and cultural systems
of both Africa and the New World.
E. I can evaluate the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old and New Worlds, and how this system
contributes to the rise of mercantilism.
Instructional Objective #4: Students will compare and contrast monarchies that governed Europe during the Age of
Absolutism.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can define the characteristics of an absolute monarchy and provide examples of kings and queens that ruled
European nations as absolute monarchs.
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B. I can explain how the development of a constitutional monarchy in Britain influenced people’s ideas about
government.
Instructional Objective #5: Students will analyze events that led Enlightenment thinkers to question old ideas and to
revolutionize the arts, religion, government, and society.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can match key thinkers of the Enlightenment with their landmark ideas.
B. I can evaluate the effects that Enlightenment ideas about politics and the economy had on societies, and
describe how those ideas spread throughout Europe and the world.
C. I can apply Enlightenment ideals to the American Revolution, and provide examples of how these ideas
influenced American government.
Instructional Objective #6: Students will investigate the causes and consequences of the French Revolution, from the
Tennis Court Oath through the fall of Napoleon.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can describe how the societal structure of France affected its government systems prior to the French
Revolution, and how these structures cause the Revolution to begin.
B. I can analyze how major developments in French government from the onset of the French Revolution through
the rise of Napoleon affected French society and foreign relations.
C. I can describe successes and failures of Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign and define how these developments relate
to the collapse of the French empire.
D. I can summarize actions taken by the Congress of Vienna, explain the motives behind these actions, and
identify the effects of these actions.
WORLD HISTORY INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING TARGETS: Spring Semester
Instructional Objective #1: Students will trace key events of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, examining
their impacts on society, politics, and economics.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can describe causes of the Agricultural Revolution, identify key innovations of it, and explain its effects on the
societies that experienced it.
B. I can describe factors of production necessary for a country to successfully industrialize.
C. I can draw conclusions about the effects industrialization has on a society, especially in regards to its socioeconomic classes.
D. I can draw conclusions about the significance of key innovations and advancements during the industrial era.
E. I can explain the short-term and long-term impacts of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions on the world’s
social and economic systems.
F. I can describe the calls for governmental reform that occurred during the industrial era.
G. I can describe the similarities and differences among newly-emerging economic ideas from capitalism,
socialism, and communism.
Instructional Objective #2: Students will investigate the effects that imperialism and nationalism had on empires and
their colonies during the 19th and early 20th century.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can compare the steps Germany and Italy each took that led to unification of the people within each nation.
B. I can describe how nationalism led to the fracturing of empires like Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
C. I can cite evidence to show how nationalism helps some nations but hinders others.
D. I can compare the paths that European colonies (primarily in Latin America) took to obtain independence from
their mother countries during the 19th century.
E. I can describe why European nations colonized Africa and Asia.
F. I can analyze the short-term and long-term impacts that European colonization had on both its imperial nations
and the colonies that were created.
G. I can draw conclusions about how imperialism and nationalism contributed to World War I.
Instructional Objective #3: Students will analyze the causes, events, and effects of World War I.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can explain the primary causes and key events that triggered World War I, and describe how this conflict
became a global war.
B. I can identify new technologies used in fighting World War I, and describe how these advancements
modernized warfare.
C. I can compare war strategies and techniques used along the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
D. I can describe the contributions belligerents’ citizens made to the war effort.
E. I can identify the effect that U.S. entry into World War I had on that conflict.
F. I can describe the impact that the Treaty of Versailles had on nations and territories involved in World War I.
G. I can analyze how World War I impacted nations and societies throughout the world.
Instructional Objective #4: Students will analyze causes, events, and consequences of prominent revolutions during
the early 20th century.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can explain how Russia ended czarist rule and became the communist USSR.
B. I can describe how turmoil and frequent changes in leadership affected Mexico in the late 19 th and early 20th
centuries.
C. I can identify causes of nationalist revolution in China and describe its effects on Chinese society.
D. I can explain how the rise of nationalism in India affected its citizens’ desire for self-rule and describe their
efforts to obtain independence.
E. I can identify how the global economic depression of the 1930s affected governments and societies throughout
the world.
Instructional Objective #5: Students will analyze causes of, events during, and results stemming from World War II.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can compare fundamental features and practices found in the totalitarian governments of Joseph Stalin, Adolf
Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.
B. I can describe the threat to world peace posed by dictators in the 1930s, and state how Western democracies
responded to these nations’ actions.
C. I can summarize key strategies and battles of World War II used in Europe and the Pacific.
D. I can describe the persecution of minority groups, primarily Jews, in Germany during this era.
E. I can summarize events that resulted in the Allied victories in Europe and the Pacific.
F. I can analyze the consequences that World War II had on the people, both military and civilian, of participating
nations.
Instructional Objective #6: Students will analyze the conflicts between democratic and communist countries that
occurred as part of the Cold War.
Learning Targets to Meet this Instructional Objective:
A. I can define the term “Cold War” and identify the competing forces in NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
B. I can describe the roles the US and the USSR played in the Chinese Revolution, the Korean War, and Vietnam
War, as well as the results of these actions.
C. I can identify how the Cold War ended, and explain its effects on nations throughout the world.