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OBJECTIVES
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WEEK
2009-10
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Week 1
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Chapter 5 Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600
Objectives:
1. List three characteristics of the Renaissance.
2. Explain the three estates of Renaissance society.
3. Explain Renaissance education.
4. Describe artistic contributions of the Renaissance.
5. Describe Christian humanism.
6. Describe Luther's role in the Reformation.
7. Describe religious changes in Switzerland,
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Sec 2
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Sec 1
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Impact of the
Renaissance on
the age of
Exploration
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Technology
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Ideas
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Exploration
Week 2
Chapter 5 Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600
Objectives:
1. List three characteristics of the Renaissance.
2. Explain the three estates of Renaissance society.
3. Explain Renaissance education.
4. Describe artistic contributions of the Renaissance.
5. Describe Christian humanism.
6. Describe Luther's role in the Reformation.
7. Describe religious changes in Switzerland,
Emphasize
Test Friday
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Sec 3
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Age of Exploration
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Conquistadors
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Encomienda
System
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Atlantic Slave
Trade
Columbian Exchange
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
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Week 3-4
Chapter 6 The Age of Exploration, 1500-1800
Objectives:
1. Explain the three main motives for exploration.
2. Trace the development and decline of Portugal's trading
empire and Spanish exploration.
3. Describe the impact of Europeans on the peoples of Africa.
4. Describe traditional African political systems.
5. Discuss the shift in power from Portuguese to Dutch in the
control of the spice trade.
6. Contrast the impact of Europeans on mainland states of
Southeast Asia with their impact on the Malay world.
7. Describe the four main political systems in Southeast Asia.
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Test Friday
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2.2
Sec 2
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4
Sec 3
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Sec 1
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Sec 2
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5
Sec 3
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Introduction to World History
Geography activities/ maps
First Novel Assignment: Maya Angelou, All God
Children’s Need Traveling Shoes
Week 5-6
Chapter 7 Crisis and Absolutism in Europe, 1550-1715
Objectives:
1. Describe the causes of the French Wars of religion and
explain how they were resolved.
2. Explain the militant Catholicism of Philip II and its effects
on Europe.
3. List the causes and results of the Thirty Years' War.
4. Discuss the significance of the English Revolution and the
Glorious Revolution.
5. Explain absolutism in relation to Louis XIV, Ivan the
Terrible, and Peter the Great.
6. Distinguish between an absolute monarchy and a
constitutional monarchy.
7. Explain the significant movements in art, literature, and
philosophy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Emphasize
Test Friday
DATE
TAUGHT
DATE
TESTED
II-1
Influence of
European
Enlightenment
thought on the
formation of the U.S.
gov’t
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Magna Carta
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Montesquieu
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Voltaire
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Locke
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Rousseau
Sec 1
Week 7-8
Chapter 10 Revolution and Enlightenment, 1550-1800
Objectives:
1. Describe the scientific advances of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries and their impact on society.
2. Identify and describe conditions that led to the
Enlightenment.
3. Explain new philosophies and the social changes that arose
during the Enlightenment.
4. Describe the causes of the War of the Austrian Succession
and the Seven Years' War.
5. Explain the reasons for European exploration.
6. Describe the impact of colonization.
7. Explain the roots of revolution.
Week 9
Review Chapter(s) 5 – 7 and 10 for 9 week Exam
Novel Discussion and Assessment Maya Angelou, All God’s
Children Need Traveling Shoes
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Sec 2
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5.1
Sec 3
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Sec 4
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11
Emphasize
Test Friday 9 Week Exam
Sec 1
7
7.1
American
Revolution
Week
10 - 11
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Geography activities/ maps
Second Novel Assignment: George Orwell, Animal Farm
Chapter 11 The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815
Objectives:
1. Identify and explain the causes of the French Revolution.
2. Explain how the French Revolution brought about the
destruction of the old regime.
3. Identify and explain the causes of the Reign of Terror.
4. Identify and explain the Age of Napoleon.
5. Identify and describe the rise and fall of Napoleon's empire.
Sec 2
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Sec 3
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Test Friday
Sec 1
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Industrialization &
Urbanization
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Sources of
Power
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Labor Unions
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Strikes
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Marxism
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Week
12 – 13
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V-2
Industrialization &
Urbanization
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Sources of
Power
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Labor Unions
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Strikes
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Marxism
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Sec 3
10
Week
14 - 15
Chapter 12 Industrialization and Nationalism, 1800-1870
Objectives:
1. Describe the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
2. Explain changes in the popularity of conservative, liberal,
and nationalist movements.
3. Identify and explain reasons for revolutionary outbursts and
reforms in Europe.
4. Describe the events that led to the unification of Italy and of
Germany.
5. Describe developments in the United States and Canada.
6. Identify and explain characteristics of romanticism and
realism.
7. Describe events in the new age of science.
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Test Friday
Chapter 13 Mass Society and Democracy, 1870-1914
Objectives:
1. Describe the Second Industrial Revolution.
2. Discuss the roles played by inventive individual geniuses
such as Guglielmo Marconi, Alexander Graham Bell, and
Michael Faraday.
3. Understand how the development of new ideas such as
socialism, modern physics, and psychology affected
people's lives.
4. Discuss important cultural developments between 1870 and
1914.
Emphasize
Test Friday
VI-1
U.S. Imperialism
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SpanishAmerican War
& Geographic
Results
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Open-Door
Policy
Social Darwinism
Week 18
Sec 1
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Week
16 – 17
Chapter 14 The Height of Imperialism, 1800-1914
Objectives:
1. Describe how colonial powers took over and ruled other
territories.
2. Discuss how Western nations imposed their values and
institutions.
3. Describe how nationalism gave subjects means for seeking
their freedoms.
4. Describe how colonies provided raw materials and new
markets for industrialized nations.
5. Describe the social divisions in the colonies between the
colonizers and those who were colonized.
Projects/ Review for Semester Exam Chapter(s) 11 - 14
Semester Exams: End of 1st Quarter
Holidays Around the World
Novel Discussion and Assessment, George Orwell, Animal Farm