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World History
Teacher: Mrs. Bauer - Mr. Keena
Phone number: (231) 263-5652 ext: #4412, ext #4404
Email address: [email protected], [email protected]
**The intent of this syllabus to provide a general understanding of the course and expectations. It may change with the
needs of the class if necessary**
Course Description: World History & Geography blends traditional classroom learning with online learning
to foster knowledge about the human experience over time and space. They will encounter powerful and
sometimes conflicting ideas while learning about people and events in different places and times. Using a
variety of classroom and online sources, students will investigate our diverse and common traditions, and work
to understand the complex interactions between various environmental, human, and social forces that influence
our past and present. They will also investigate global patterns and develop an understanding of human
commonalities and differences. This course connects us to people and events across time and space, illuminating
the range and depth of human experience on grand as well as local scales. The focus will be on causes,
consequences, human government systems, patterns of interaction among societies, technological and economic
changes on people and their cultures.
Preparation: Bring these every class or face inflexible consequences!
 3 Ring Binder-These will be evaluated and graded at the end of every unit
 Textbook: “World History” Glencoe Copyright 2008
 Lined paper.
 Pencil or pen (Black or blue ink only. No other colored inks).
Be aware:
 Do not use symbols (/, & or +) for the word “and”. This will result in an automatic loss of one point.
Types of activities: In this class we will be doing many interesting exercises that bring the people and events
of the past alive and into real life in order to help us examine the impact and relevance of people, places, and
events on our society and world as a whole. Many of these activities will focus on the use of technology and the
internet to bring history into better focus.
Some of these activities include:
1. Board games: Take the people, events, and important concepts from the Middle Ages and turn them into a board game with rules,
players, and questions.
2. Drawing: Students will create an annotated picture of different places or people. Examples include your take on the appearance of a
Neanderthal or an emperor. Pictures must include written facts (historical evidence) to support details.
3. Journals: After learning about what life was like for different people of the past, you will take their place and write journals or letters
as if you were living in those conditions. For example, you will write from the perspective of an African who was kidnapped and set
over to the Caribbean.
4. Tech projects: There will be many projects associated with the use of the following: Movie Maker, Prezi, Audacity, and more. The
class will use various tech sources to create project, answer surveys, debate, create websites, and many more.
5. Experiential exercises: How would you react to being crowned the ruler of the classroom and had the power to make all of the rules
and punish offenders. Find out how experiences as the ruler or a class member led to ideas like democracy.
Topics:
Foundations of Civilization - China, India, Asia - Rise and Fall of the Classical World - Europe in the
Middle Ages- Renaissance/Age of Exploration/The Americas - Evolution of Modern Europe - Imperialism
Rules:
1. Respect the teacher and each other
2. Come prepared to class: This means bringing everything listed under “materials” each day. Do not
show up without them or you will be sent back after them and given a tardy.
3. Start working immediately
4. Dismissed by teacher only: This means that you stay in your seat until I dismiss you, not the bell.
Do not start putting things away two minutes before class ends.
5. Food/Beverages: Water only.
Procedures:
1. Speaking in class: I encourage lively class discussions. Please be respectful.
2. Material preparation: Sharpen pencils before class begins. Do not interrupt my lecture or teaching
to do so, you must wait for a pause.
3. Bathroom Breaks: Do not interrupt my lecture to go to the bathroom. If you must go, wait until an
appropriate time to ask. You will not be permitted to leave either the first or the last twenty minutes of
class.
4. Assignments: Do not work on late homework during class time. Extra credit is rare if at all. If you
disagree with any grade see me after class with a rational explanation as to why and it may be
reconsidered.
*Write clearly: If your writing is illegible, it will be marked incorrect.
*No name work will be kept for a short period of time then thrown away.
*Late Assignments: See student handbook.
Absence Policy: Please let me know as soon as you know that you will be absent. If you tell me
at noon that you are leaving for a week at the end of the day, there will not be enough time to gather all
of the information you will need to take with you.
*Planned absence: Get all class work ahead of time. Do not ask me during class; come in
before, after, or during A.C. See handbook for further details.
*Unplanned absence: Retrieve any missed assignments from the assignment bin and ask a peer
for further directions and notes before or after class time. See handbook for further details.
Grading: Classes may be utilizing the summative/formative grading system for assignments. In
this system, assignment will be completed, graded and recorded in Powerschool. However, formative
(practice) assignments will not be factored into the student’s final grade.
Formative: Any assignment meant as practice or to help the student and teacher gauge where he or she is at in his or her
understanding of the content. These may not be retaken and do not count toward the marking period grades.
Summative: Any assignment meant as a final assessment of what a student has learned. Students who complete classroom
activities on time may retake any two assignments per marking period to demonstrate better understanding. These do
count in the marking period grades.
*Eligibility at the beginning of a marking period will be based on the first several assignments regardless of summative or formative status.
Grading Scale: Students are responsible for knowing their grade and what, if any, assignments
are missing. Standard grading scale used.
Parents/Guardians: If you have any questions, please call or email.
Your Very First Homework Assignment!!
Students and Parents,
If you have any questions please contact me at the phone number or email address given on the first
page. Please sign to indicate you have read, understand, and agree to the attached information:
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Student Signature
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Parental Signature
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*The class will watch portions of movies illustrating events or concepts from different units. These may contain
language or violence that are accurate to a specific historical event. If you would not like this student to view
this work, please check the box and an alternate assignment will be issued to them.
No, this student does not have permission to view this material. Please issue them alternate
assignments.