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World History and Civilization: August 2016
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
8
Teacher In-Service Day
No Students
15 Blue
River Valley Civilizations:
Ancient Middle East and Egypt
HW: Read 3.2; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
22 Gold
29 Blue
Unit 1 Part 1 Test
Single Document Analysis
HW: Read 2.2 (32-34), 2.4 (4650), 3.4 (82-84); Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
9 Blue
Unit 1: Foundations of
Civilizations and Patterns of
Social and Political Interaction
How did early civilizations lay
the foundation for the modern
world?
HW: Read 1.2 & 1.3; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
16 Gold
23 Blue
Monotheism: Judaism &
Christianity
Do nations build religions or do
religions build nations?
HW: Read 8.1 & 8.2 (263-265);
Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
30 Gold
Thursday
Friday
10 Gold
11 Blue
The Neolithic Revolution and
Characterization of Civilizations
What characteristics do we all
share?
HW: Regions Map; Map Quiz
12 Gold
17 Blue
Religion and Philosophy:
Hinduism & Buddhism
What is the role of religion in
civilizations?
Introduce Single Document
Analysis
HW: Read 3.4 (84-88); Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
24 Gold
Late Start
18 Gold
19 Blue
Early Chinese Philosophies:
Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism
What is the purpose of
philosophies in early
government?
HW: Read 2.3 & 6.4; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
25 Blue
Monotheism: Islam
What is the role of religion in
the state?
Single Document Analysis
Practice
HW: Study for Unit 1 Part 1 Test
26 Gold
31 Blue
Foundations of Government:
Ancient Governments (citystates, Monarchy, Theocracy,
Dynastic Cycle)
How and why do governments
gain and lose power?
HW: Read 5.2 (131-136) & 5.4;
Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
World History and Civilization: September 2016
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
5
6 Gold
7 Blue
Foundations of Government:
Roman Republic
What are the advantages to a
republican style government?
HW: 3.3 (75-78); 3.5 (89-94); 6.2
(163-168); Take Cornell Notes;
Quiz
13 Blue
14 Gold
Labor Day- No School
12 Gold
19 Blue
Unit 2: Role of Culture, Trade,
and Interaction
What are the benefits and
drawbacks to the collision of
cultures?
26 Gold
27 Blue
Spread of Islam & Muslim
Trade:
Umayyad /Abbasid Empires
Friday
1 Gold
Foundations of Government:
Ancient Governments (citystates, Monarchy, Theocracy,
Dynastic Cycle)
How and why do governments
gain and lose power?
HW: Read 5.2 (131-136) & 5.4;
Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
8 Gold
2 Blue
Foundations of Government:
Democracy in & Alexander the
Great
In what ways was Classical
Greek Democracy both a
success and failure?
HW: Read 6.1; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
9 Blue
Foundations in Government:
Empires and Authoritarian Rule
(Maurya/Gupta, Qin/Han,
Roman)
Why were there so many
empires in the classical world?
HW: Read 6.2 (168-172); 7.1
(190-194); Take Cornell Notes;
Quiz
16 Gold
15 Blue
Late Start
Collapse of Classical Empires:
Fall of Rome and rise of
Byzantines
What went wrong?
HW: Study for Unit 1 Part 2 Test
20 Gold
Thursday
Unit 1 Part 2 Test
Single Document Analysis
Intro to Cultural Contributions
Project
21 Blue
Cultural Contributions Project
Worktime
HW: Prepare for Presentations
22 Gold
23 Blue
Present Cultural Contribution
Projects
HW: Read 8.2; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
28 Gold
29 Blue
Impact of the Spread of Islam
Did trade spread Islam, or did
Islam spread trade?
30 Green
HOMECOMING!
Late Start
HW: Read 8.6 & 8.7; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
Introduce Multiple Document
Analysis
HW: Read 9.2 (316-320); 9.3;
Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
World History and Civilization: October 2016
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
3 Gold
Impact of the Spread of Islam
Did trade spread Islam, or did
Islam spread trade?
Introduce Multiple Document
Analysis
HW: Read 9.2 (316-320); 9.3;
Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
10 Blue
4 Blue
Forced Interactions: How the
Mongols contributed to the fall
of empires
Were the Mongols savage
barbarians or able
administrators?
HW: Read 7.2; 7.3; 7.4 (216220); Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
11 Gold
Unit 2 Test
Multiple Document Analysis
HW: Read 7.4 (211-216); 7.7;
Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
17
Fall Break- No School
24 Gold
18 Blue
Renaissance in Europe:
Intellectual & Artistic
Movements
How did new ideas in art and
literature change Europe?
HW: Read 10.3; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
25 Blue
The English Reformation &
Counter Reformation
How did the Reformation create
a ripple effect in European
society?
5 Gold
Thursday
Friday
6 Blue
Forced Interactions: Intro to
Middle Ages (Feudalism,
Manorialism, Crusades)
How did the challenges of
Christendom and the Crusades
create new avenues for trade?
HW: Study for Unit 2 Test
7 Gold
12 Blue
Unit 3: The Reemergence of
Europe
How did new ideas change the
world?
The Feudal System Ends:
Economic Expansion, Trade, and
Challenges
After so much success, why did
it fail?
HW: Read 10.1 & 10.2; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
19
PLAN TESTING
13 Gold
14
20 Gold
21 Blue
The Protestant Reformation
How did change in art fuel
changes in religion?
HW: Read 10.4; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
26 Gold
27 Blue
The Scientific Revolution
In what ways did religious
changes fuel discovery?
Assign Argumentative Essay
HW: Read 11.1; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
28 Gold
Late Start
Late Start
Fall Break- No School
HW: Read 10.5; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
31 Blue
European Exploration
Why was Europe so successful
during the age of exploration?
HW: Read 11.2 & pg. 328; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
World History and Civilization: November 2016
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
7 Gold
14 Blue
Unit 4: Absolutism &
Revolutions
Absolutism: How does the
“divine right” give rulers
ultimate power? Is it effective in
the long term?
Is conflict necessary in order to
ensure the rights of individuals?
Introduce DBQ Essay
HW: Read 12.3; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
21 Gold
1 Gold
European Exploration
Why was Europe so successful
during the age of exploration?
HW: Read 11.2 & pg. 328; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
2 Blue
Isolation of China and Japan
during the Age of Exploration
How do the East and West differ
during the Age of Exploration?
HW: Read 11.3 & 11.4; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz; Finish
Argumentative Essay Outline
3 Gold
8 Blue
Consequences of Exploration:
Columbian Exchange and Slave
Trade
HW: Study for Unit 3 Test; Finish
Argumentative Essay
15 Gold
9 Gold
10 Blue
22 Blue
In-Class DBQ Essay
23
Thanksgiving Break- No School
HW: Read 12.6; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
Late Start
16 Blue
Limits of Absolutism: English
Civil War
HW: Read 12.4 & 12.5; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
Thursday
Unit 3 Test
Argumentative Essay Due
HW: Read 426-427, 431-434,
438-443; Take Cornell Notes;
Quiz
17 Gold
24
Thanksgiving Break- No School
Friday
4 Blue
European Colonization
How was Colonization in the
Americas different from the
Spanish, Portuguese, French,
and English?
Why wasn’t it all the same?
HW: Read 11.5 & 11.6; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz; Finish
Argumentative Essay Rough
Draft
11 Gold
18 Blue
The Enlightenment and its
Impact
How does “reason” change the
way we see the world?
In what ways did the
Enlightenment help create
America as we know it?
HW: DBQ prep
25
Thanksgiving Break- No School
28 Gold
29 Blue
French Revolution: Causes and
Early Events
Why were people so mad, and
what did they do about it?
HW: Read 12.7; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
30 Gold
Late Start
World History and Civilization: December 2016
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
5 Blue
The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
What was Napoleon’s legacy?
6 Gold
12 Gold
13 Blue
7 Blue
End of the French Revolution
HW: Study for Unit 4 Test
14
Final Exams
19
20
Winter Break- No School
26
15
21
27
Winter Break- No School
Final Exams
22
Winter Break- No School
28
Winter Break- No School
1 Blue
French Revolution: Radical
Phase and the Reign of Terror
Did the Radical Phase and the
Reign of Terror uphold or
betray the ideals of the
Revolution?
HW: Read 12.8; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
8 Gold
Final Exams
Winter Break- No School
Thursday
Winter Break- No School
29
Winter Break- No School
Friday
2 Gold
9 Blue
Unit 4 Test
Final Exam Review Day
HW: Study for Final Exam
16
Final Exams
23
Winter Break- No School
30
Winter Break- No School
Winter Break- No School
World History and Civilization: January 2017
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
2
No School- Teacher Work Day
9 Blue
Nationalism Around the Globe
(Case studies-Germany, Italy,
Latin America)
HW: Read 15.1 & 15.2 (601604); Take Cornell Notes; Quiz
16
3 Blue
Unit 5: Industrialism &
Imperialism
The Industrial Revolution: How
does technology change
society?
(Read 13.1 in class)
HW: Read 13.2; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
10 Gold
4 Gold
17 Gold
MLK Day- No School
23 Gold
24 Blue
Unit 5 Test
HW: Read 16.1; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
30 Blue
WWI: Warfare & Weaponry
What characteristics made WWI
completely different from any
war before?
HW: TBD
31 Gold
Thursday
Friday
5 Blue
Industrial Revolution: Social &
Economic Impacts
How did urbanization change
the way people lived and
interacted?
HW: Nationalism Reading
6 Gold
11 Blue
Imperialism in Africa
Why did imperialism spread so
quickly around the world?
HW: Read 15.4; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
12 Gold
18 Blue
Imperialism in China & Japan
Why did imperialism in China
look so different in Japan?
19 Gold
13 Blue
Imperialism in India
How did British Rule lead to
dissatisfaction among native
groups?
HW: Read 15.5& 15.6; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
20 Blue
European Imperialism Map
Late Start
Political Cartoon Assignment
25 Gold
Late Start
HW: Study for Unit 5 Test
26 Blue
Unit 6 Part 1: WWI & Russian
Revolution
WWI: Causes and Early Events
When is war justified?
HW: Read 16.2; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
27 Gold
World History and Civilization: February 2017
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1 Blue
Thursday
2 Gold
3 Blue
9 Blue
Russian Revolution
Why were there multiple
revolutions in Russia? What was
the result?
HW: Read 16.3; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
10 Gold
Watch War Horse
HW: Read 16.4; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
6 Gold
13 Blue
Unit 6 Part 2: Interwar Years &
WWII
Interwar Years: Nationalism in
Africa, India, & Middle East
Why did nationalist feelings
erupt into unrest immediately
following WWI?
HW: 17.5 (706-712); Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
20
Presidents Day- No School
27 Gold
Friday
7 Blue
WWI Ends: US entry into the
war & Treaty of Versailles
Why was peace so difficult to
create after the Great War?
HW: Study for Unit 6 Part 1 Test
14 Gold
8 Gold
15 Blue
Interwar Years: The Great
Depression
How did economic depression
create ideal conditions for
political upheaval?
HW: Read 17.4; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
16 Gold
17 Blue
Interwar Years: Nationalism in
Japan & China
HW: Read 17.6 & 17.8; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
21 Gold
22 Blue
Interwar Years: Rise of Fascism
(Hitler & Mussolini)
How did political and social
unrest led to the rise of fascist
dictators?
HW: Read 17.7; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
23 Gold
24 Blue
Interwar Years: Rise of
Communism
(Stalin)
What factors led to the rise of
Communism and Stalin in the
Soviet Union?
HW: Read 18.1 & 18.2; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
28 Blue
WWII: Beginning & Axis
Aggression
Late Start
Unit 6 Part 1 Test
War Horse assignment DUE
HW: Read 17.2 & 17.3; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
How did the policies of
appeasement and isolationism
contribute to the start of WWII?
HW: Read 18.3; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
World History and Civilization: March 2017
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
6 Blue
WWII: Allied Victory in Europe
& Japan
What allowed the Allies to gain
strength against the Axis
powers?
HW: Study for Unit 6 Part 2 Test
7 Gold
13 Gold
14 Blue
Cold War Foundations: US vs
USSR
How did former allies, the
United States, and the Soviet
Union, become enemies? How
did it happen so quickly?
HW: Guatemalan Coup Reading
21 Gold
20 Blue
Cold War in East Asia:
Communist China & the Korean
War
How did the relationship
between the US, Soviet Union,
and China change throughout
the Cold War?
Intro to Cold War Project
HW: Read 19.4; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
1 Gold (Late Start)
WWII: Beginning & Axis
Aggression
How did the policies of
appeasement and isolationism
contribute to the start of WWII?
HW: Read 18.3; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
8 Blue
Unit 6 Part 2 Test
Opposing Viewpoint Analysis
15 Gold
Late Start
22 Blue
Cold War in Southeast Asia:
Vietnam War
How did the struggle in Vietnam
reflect the larger Cold War
conflict?
Project Work Time in Class
HW: Read 19.5; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
Thursday
Friday
2 Blue
WWII: The Holocaust
What happened? Who is
responsible?
HW: Read 18.4 & 18.5; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
3 Gold
9 Gold
10 Blue
Unit 7: The Cold War
What are the global implications
of the Cold War?
16 Blue
Cold War in Latin America:
Cuba and Guatemala
HW: Read 19.3; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
23 Gold
Watch Cold War Movie
HW: Read 19.1; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
17 Gold
24 Blue
End of the Cold War & Collapse
of the Soviet Union
How did the collapse of the
Soviet Union lead to the end of
the Cold War?
Project Work Time in Class
HW: Study for Unit 7 Test; Finish
Cold War Project
27 Gold
28 Blue
Unit 7 Test
Present Cold War Projects
29 Gold
Late Start
30 Blue
Finish Cold War Project
Presentations
HW: Read 20.1; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
31
Spring Break- No School
World History and Civilization: April 2017
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3
4
5
6
7
Spring Break- No School
10 Gold
Finish Cold War Project
Presentations
HW: Read 20.1; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
Spring Break- No School
11 Blue
Unit 8: Decolonization &
Globalization
Did independence cause more
problems than it solved?
Independence Movements:
(India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
HW: Read 20.2; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
18 Gold
Spring Break- No School
12 Gold
Late Start
Spring Break- No School
13 Blue
Independence Movements:
Decolonization of Africa
(Algeria, Kenya, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Ghana,
Mozambique)
HW: TBD
Spring Break- No School
14 Gold
19 Blue
Formation of the Modern
Middle East
(Israeli & Palestinian Conflict)
How did nationalism lead to
conflicts in the Middle East
during the 20th century?
HW: Read 20.3 (832-836) & 20.4
(841-842); Take Cornell Notes;
Quiz
26 Gold
Late Start
20 Gold
21 Blue
Conflicts in the Middle East
(Gulf War, Iraq War, Arab
Spring)
Why have conflicts in the
Middle East been important to
the rest of the world?
HW: TBD
27 Blue
Globalization and Trade
How will globalization impact
your future?
Introduce Global Issues Fair
Project
HW: Read 21.2 & 21.3; Take
Cornell Notes
28 Gold
17 Blue
Watch Sometimes in April
(Rwandan Genocide)
HW: Read 20.3 (829-831) & 20.4
(837-840); Take Cornell Notes;
Quiz
24 Gold
25 Blue
Finish Sometimes in April
HW: Read 21.1 & 21.6; Take
Cornell Notes; Quiz
World History and Civilization: May 2017
How to Read and Use this Calendar:
 Each reading assignment is expected to be completed BEFORE the next class.
 When you read, you should be taking your own handwritten Cornell notes.
 This calendar may change as the semester progresses! I will inform you if there are any changes.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
1 Blue
Global Issues in Developing
Countries: Urbanization
HW: Read 21.7; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
2 Gold
3 Blue
Watch He Named Me Malala
HW: Read 21.8; Take Cornell
Notes; Quiz
4 Gold
8 Gold
9 Blue
10 Gold
11 Blue
Global Issues Project Work Day
HW: Finish Global Issues
Projects
18 Gold
Unit 8 Test
Global Issues Project Work Day
15 Blue
Global Issues Presentations
16 Gold
22
23
Final Exam
Late Start
17 Blue
Final Exam Review Day
24
Final Exam
5 Blue
The Effects of Globalization:
Terrorism
What should the world do to
combat international threats of
terrorism?
HW: Study for Unit 8 Test
12 Gold
19 Blue
Final Exam
25
Final Exam
Friday
Teacher In-Service Day- No
School