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Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(1) The Greco-Roman World
Number of Days:
10
Know:
Understand:
• The geography of Southern Europe had
• Greek and Roman civilizations
a profound effect on the development
greatly impacted the Western World.
of the Greek and Roman civilizations.
•
Athens and Sparta emerged as the
leading Greek city-states.
•
Greek philosophers such as Socrates,
Plato, and Aristotle established the
foundations of Western philosophy.
•
Constantine proclaimed official
tolerance of Christianity in the Roman
Empire.
•
Germanic tribes defeated the Romans,
and the empire fell.
Do:
•
Explain the contributions of the
Greeks and Romans.
•
Explain the democratic concepts
developed in ancient Greece.
•
Describe the government of the
Roman Republic and its contribution
to the development of democratic
principles.
•
Analyze the basic tenets of
Christianity and its impact on
civilization.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept:
Greeks
World History HS
(1) The Greco-Roman World
10
Greek and Roman civilizations greatly impacted the Western World.
What were the legacies of the Greek and Roman world?
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
N/A
1. What were the contributions of the earliest Greeks? (A)
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 5
2. How did geography affect the Greeks? (A)
3. What role did the city-state play in Greek life? (A)
4. How did Athens and Sparta differ? (A)
5. What contributions to civilization were made by the Greeks?
(A)
Concept:
Romans
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 5
Benchmark(s):
N/A
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did geography impact Rome? (A)
2. How did Rome’s power increase and what led to its collapse?
(A)
3. What were the contributions of the Romans? (A)
4. What are the basic tenets of Christianity? (A)
5. How did Christianity impact civilization? (ET)
Vocabulary:
epic, polis,
acropolis, phalanx,
democracy,
oligarchy,
philosophy, myth,
hoplite, helot,
tragedy, comedy,
classical art, arête
Trojan War, Persian
Wars, Socrates,
Plato, Aristotle,
Alexander the Great,
Euclid
Vocabulary:
republic, patrician,
plebeian, monarchy,
legion, apostle,
pope, aqueducts,
aristocracy, bishop,
gladiator, senate,
tribune, triumvirate,
consul, dictator,
Hannibal, Julius
Caesar, Augustus,
Jesus Christ, Peter,
Paul
Revised 8/08/12 Additional Information:
History Alive! Program –Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome
United Streaming video:
“Living History: Living in Ancient Greece.” Ancient Lights, 2000.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(2) Islamic World
Number of Days:
9
Know:
Understand:
• Muhammad and his followers spread
• The political, social, and cultural
the Pillars of Islam, Islamic law, and
advances of Islam have had an impact
the relationship between government
on the modern world.
and religion in Islam.
•
At its peak, the Arab Empire extended
west and north through Spain and into
France.
•
There were many great achievements,
contributions, and key figures of the
Islamic Golden Age.
•
In the seventh century, a split in Islam
created two groups, the Shiite and the
Sunni Muslims.
•
From the eleventh to the thirteenth
centuries, European Christians carried
out a series of military expeditions
called the Crusades to regain the Holy
Land from the Muslims.
•
The Ottomans created a strong empire
with religious tolerance and artistic
achievements.
Do:
•
Compare the major beliefs and
principles of Judaism, Christianity and
Islam.
•
Determine the cause, effects, and
extent of Islamic military expansion
through Central Asia, North Africa
and Spain.
•
Describe the economic, political, and
social developments in Islamic history.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept:
Fundamentals
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 10 Sec. 1-2
Concept:
Expansion
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 10 Sec. 1, 4
Concepts:
History
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 10 Sec. 2
Concept:
Golden Age
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 10 Sec. 3
Concept:
Ottoman Empire
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
World History HS
(2) Islamic World
9
The political, social, and cultural advances of Islam have had an impact on the modern world.
How has Islam influenced and shaped the modern world?
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
SS.912.W.3.1
6. What is the origin of Islam? (A)
mosque, hajj,
SS.912.G.2.1
sheikh, shari’ah
7. What are the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam? (A)
Sunna, Islam,
Muslim, Hijrah.
Quran
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
SS.912.W.3.3
6. How did Muhammad’s successors spread Islam? (A)
caliph, jihad
SS.912.W.3.4
7. What are the causes, effects and extent of Islamic military
expansion through Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa and
the Iberian Peninsula? (ET)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.6
SS.912.G.4.7
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What are the significant economic, political and social
characteristics of Islamic history? (A)
Vocabulary:
Sunni, Shiite
2. How did these characteristics influence other cultures? (ET)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.5
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.2.8
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What are the achievements, contributions, and important people
of the Islamic Golden Age? (A)
2. How did these achievements, contributions, and important
people impact history? (ET)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What led to the growth of the Ottoman Empire? (A)
Vocabulary:
calligraphy,
arabesque, astrolabe,
minaret, muezzin,
bazaar, dowry
Vocabulary:
sultan, janissary,
grand vizier
Revised 8/08/12 Chapter 9 Sec. 1
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! – The Rise of Islam
United Streaming videos:
“Religions of the World: Islam,” Delphi, 2001
“Islam: History, Society and Civilization”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(3) The Medieval World
Number of Days:
25
Know:
• Constantine ordered the construction of
Constantinople or the “New Rome”.
•
The Iconoclast Controversy and Christian
Schism occurred during the 11th century and
created a separation between the branches of
Christianity.
•
The causes of the Byzantine decline included a
schism, power struggle, and the advance of the
Seljuk Turks.
•
The achievements of Charles Martel,
Charlemagne, Otto the Great, and William the
Conqueror brought about major changes in the
Medieval World.
•
•
•
•
Christian monasteries and convents served as
centers of education, charitable and missionary
activity, economic productivity, and power.
Western civilization arose from a synthesis of
classical Greco-Roman civilization, JudeoChristian influence, and the cultures of northern
European peoples promoting unity in Europe.
England, France, and Spain developed as nations
during the Medieval Period.
Feudal Japan was dominated by shogunate rule.
Understand:
Do:
• The economic, political, and cultural
•
changes of the Middle Ages impacted
modern society.
Compare and contrast the
Byzantine Empire to the Roman
Empire.
•
Analyze the impact of the
collapse of the Western Roman
Empire on Europe.
•
Describe the impact feudalism
had on the social strata, the
Church, and the development of
private property.
•
Compare Japanese feudalism to
European feudalism.
•
Analyze the contributions of the
Byzantine Empire.
•
Analyze the impact of the
Crusades.
•
Identify the key figures that
accomplished artistic and
intellectual achievements in the
Medieval Period.
•
Describe Japan’s cultural and
economic relationship to China
and Korea.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept:
Byzantine Empire
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 9 Sec. 1
World History HS
(3) The Medieval World
25
The economic, political, and cultural changes of the Middle Ages impacted modern society.
How did both religion and secular authority contribute to the building of kingdoms, nations and empires?
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
SS.912.W.2.1
1. How was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of the Old
patriarch, icon,
SS.912.W.2.2
Roman Empire? (A)
schism,
SS.912.W.2.3
excommunication
SS.912.W.2.5
2. What were the achievements, contributions and important
SS.912.W.2.6
people of the Byzantine Empire? (A)
Justinian Code,
SS.912.W.2.7
Cyrillic Alphabet,
SS.912.G.4.9
3. What were the causes and effects of the decline of the Byzantine Mehmet the
Empire? (ET)
Conqueror,
Suleyman
4. What were the causes and effects of the Iconoclast controversy
and the Christian Schism between the churches of
Constantinople and Rome? (ET)
Concept:
The Crusades
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 8 Sec. 3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.7
SS.912.W.3.8
Concept:
Transforming the
Roman World and
the rise of feudalism
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.2.9
SS.912.W.2.10
SS.912.W.2.11
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the causes and effects of the Crusades? (ET)
2. Who were the significant figures associated with the Crusades?
(A)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the effects of the Germanic invasions of the Roman
Empire? (ET)
Vocabulary:
crusade, infidel,
Reconquista
Alexius Comnenus,
Pope Urban, Benard
of Clairveaux,
Saladin, Richard the
Lionheart, Baybars,
Louis IX
Vocabulary:
feudalism, lord,
chivalry, fief, vassal,
knight, serf, manor
Revised 8/08/12 Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 7 Sec. 1-3
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.3.2
SS.912.G.4.5
2. What led to the development of feudalism? (A)
3. What are the political and economic aspects of the feudal
system? (A)
Charles Martel,
Charlemagne, Otto
the Great, William
the Conqueror
4. What were the rights and duties of feudal relationships? (A)
Concept:
Role of the Catholic
Church
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 7 Sec. 2-3
Chapter 8 Sec. 4-5
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.2.10
SS.912.W.2.14
SS.912.W.2.17
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What was the importance of the Christian monasteries and
convents in Medieval Europe? (ET)
2. What were the social, economic, and political roles of the
church, and how did these characteristics impact Medieval
Society? (ET)
3. What were the main features of art and architecture in the
Middle Ages? (A)
4. Who were the key figures and what were the intellectual
achievements of the medieval period in Western Europe? (A)
Concept:
Late Middle Ages
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 8 Sec. 5
Concept:
Economic changes
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.2.14
SS.912.G.2.3
SS.912.G.4.9
SS.912.G.6.4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.2.15
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the causes and effects of the Black Death, Great
Schism and Great Famine? (ET)
2. What were the causes and effects of the Hundred Years War?
(ET)
3. What steps did England, France, & Spain go through to achieve
national identity? (A)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What factors contributed to the growth of a modern economy in
medieval society? (ET)
Vocabulary:
monastery, secular,
monasticism, clergy,
sacraments, lay
investiture, heresy,
tithe, natural law,
theology
Romanesque,
Gothic, Anselm of
Canterbury,
Chaucer, Thomas
Aquinas, Hildegard
of Bingen, Dante,
Scholasticism
Vocabulary:
anti-Semitism,
common law
Estates-General,
Black Death, Great
Schism, Great
Famine, Magna
Carta, Parliament
Vocabulary:
economy,
commercial
revolutions, guilds
Revised 8/08/12 Chapter 7 Sec. 4
Concept:
Japan
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 12 Sec. 3-4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.2.19
SS.912.W.2.20
SS.912.W.2.21
SS.912.W.2.22
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.2
SS.912.G.2.3
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
1. How did Japan’s physiography impact its economic and political shogun, samurai,
development? (A)
daimyo, bushido,
feudalism, and
2. What were the major cultural, economic, political and religious
social hierarchy
developments in medieval Japan? (A)
Pillow Book, Tale of
3. How did Japanese feudalism compare with European feudalism Genji, Shinto,
during the Middle Ages? (ET)
Japanese Buddhism
4. What was Japan’s cultural & economic relationship with China
& Korea? (ET)
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! - Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire, The Rise of the Islamic World, Imperial China and Feudal Japan
United Streaming videos:
“World History: The Medieval Era”
“Medieval Times: Life in the Middle Ages (1000-1450 A.D.)”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(4) Peoples and Empires of Africa and the Americas
Number of Days:
9
Know:
Understand:
• The expansion of trade led to migration
• Early Meso, South American and
and the growth of major Sub-Saharan
Sub-Saharan African civilizations
African kingdoms and empires.
flourished with fully developed
political, religious and social
structures.
• The disruption of trade, internal
political struggles, and Islamic
invasions all led to the fall of the
empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
•
The Olmec, Zapotec, and Chavin
peoples had an impact on later Meso
and South American civilizations.
•
Rulers such as Pacal the Great,
Montezuma I, and Huayna Capac had a
great impact on Meso and South
American civilizations.
•
The Maya settled in the Yucatan
Peninsula.
•
The Aztec settled in Mexico Valley.
•
The Inca settled in the Andes
Mountains.
Do:
•
Identify key significant economic,
political and social characteristics of
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
•
Compare economic, political, and
social developments in east, west and
south Africa.
•
Describe the roles of people in the
Maya, Aztec, and Inca societies.
Compare the key economic, cultural,
and political characteristics of the
major civilizations of Meso and South
America.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
World History HS
(4) Peoples and Empires of Africa and America
9
Early Meso, South American and Sub-Saharan African civilizations flourished with fully developed political,
Key Learning:
religious and social structures.
How did the political, religious and social characteristics of early Meso, South American and Sub-Saharan African
Unit Essential Question:
civilizations lead to change?
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
Ghana
SS.912.W.3.9
1. What were the growth patterns of Ghana? (A)
matrilineal, griots,
Prentice Hall World SS.912.W.3.10
gold, monopoly,
History (2013)
SS.912.W.3.14
2. What were the significant economic, political and social
slavery, berbers
Chapter 11 Sec. 1-2
SS.912.G.2.1
characteristics of Ghana? (A)
SS.912.G.2.5
3. What were the internal and external factors that led to the fall of
Ghana? (ET)
Concept:
Mali
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 11 Sec. 1-2
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.9
SS.912.W.3.10
SS.912.W.3.14
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.5
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the growth patterns of Mali? (A)
2. What were the significant economic, political and social
characteristics of Mali? (A)
Vocabulary:
Sundiata Keita,
Timbuktu, Mansa
Musa
3. What were the internal and external factors that led to the fall of
Mali? (ET)
Concept:
Songhai
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 11 Sec. 1-2
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.9
SS.912.W.3.10
SS.912.W.3.14
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.5
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the growth patterns of Songhai? (A)
2. What were the significant economic, political and social
characteristics of Songhai? (A)
3. What were the internal and external factors that led to the fall of
Songhai? (ET)
Vocabulary:
cowrie
Sunni Ali,
Muhammad Ture,
Morocco
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Early Meso & South
American societies
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 6
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.15
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
1. How did the legacies of the Olmec, Zapotec, and Chavin impact Teotihuacan,
later Meso and South American civilizations? (ET)
Yucatan Peninsula,
Cuzco, Tikal,
2. What were the challenges from their geographic locations for
Chichen Itza,
the Maya, Aztec, and Inca? (A, ET)
Chavin
Concept:
Mayan civilization
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 6
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.16
SS.912.W.3.17
SS.912.W.3.18
SS.912.W.3.19
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.4.6
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the location of the Maya affect their civilization? (ET)
Vocabulary:
glyph, codex, cacao
2. How was Mayan society structured? (A)
3. What were the economic, cultural, and political characteristics
of the Mayans? (A)
4. What was the lasting impact of the Mayan rulers? (ET)
Concept:
Aztec civilization
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 6
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.16
SS.912.W.3.17
SS.912.W.3.18
SS.912.W.3.19
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.4.6
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the location of the Aztec affect their civilization? (ET)
Vocabulary:
obsidian,
chinampas, tributes
2. How was Aztec society structured? (A)
3. What were the economic, cultural, and political characteristics of
the Aztec?
Quetzalcoatl,
Huitzilopochtli,
Hernan de Cortes,
Montezuma II
4. What was the lasting impact of the Aztec rulers? (ET)
Concept:
Incan civilization
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 6
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.3.16
SS.912.W.3.17
SS.912.W.3.18
SS.912.W.3.19
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.4.6
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the location of the Inca affect their civilization? (ET)
2. How was Inca society structured? (A)
Vocabulary:
ayllu, mita, quipu,
chuno, chasquis,
maize
3. What were the economic, cultural, and political characteristics
of the Incas? (A)
Pizarro, Machu
Picchu
4. What was the lasting impact of the Inca rulers? (ET)
Revised 8/08/12 Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! – Empires and Kingdoms of Sub-Saharan Africa and Civilizations of the Americas
United Streaming video:
“Ancient Americans: The Mayas and Aztecs”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(5) A New View of the World
Number of Days:
16
Know:
Understand:
• Italian city-states such as Florence,
• The Renaissance, Reformation, and
Milan, Naples, Rome, and Venice were
the Age of Exploration ushered in
the centers of political, economic, and
dramatic social, cultural, and
social life in Renaissance Italy.
economic changes.
•
The most important intellectual
movement associated with the
Renaissance was humanism.
•
Religious reforms associated with
Martin Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Henry
the VIII, and John of Leyden brought
about sweeping changes in Christianity.
•
Martin Luther’s religious reforms led to
the emergence of Protestantism.
•
The Protestant Reformation caused the
Catholic Church to respond by
undergoing a religious rebirth.
•
Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands,
France, and England all reached new
economic heights in the Americas.
•
The practice of slavery took place
during the 13th-17th centuries in East
Africa, West Africa, Europe, Southwest
Asia, and the Americas.
Do:
•
Identify the major artistic, literary, and
technological contributions of
individuals during the Renaissance.
•
Identify criticisms of the Roman
Catholic Church by individuals such as
Wycliffe, Hus, and Erasmus and their
impact on later reformers.
•
Evaluate the scope and impact of the
Columbian Exchange on Europe,
Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
•
Explain the origins, developments, and
impact of the Trans-Atlantic slave
trade between West Africa and the
Americas.
•
Summarize the events leading to the
Age of Exploration, and identify the
major voyages and sponsors.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
World History HS
(5) A New View of the World
16
The Renaissance, Reformation and Age of Exploration ushered in dramatic social, cultural, and economic changes.
How did the dramatic social, cultural, and economic changes that occurred as a result of the Renaissance,
Unit Essential Question:
Reformation, and the Age of Exploration change the world?
Concept:
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
Renaissance
SS.912.W.4.1
1. What were the economic and political causes for the rise of Italian city- humanism, patron,
Prentice Hall World SS.912.W.4.2
states during the Renaissance? (A)
perspective, fresco,
History (2013)
SS.912.W.4.3
secular, vernacular
Chapter 13 Sec. 1
SS.912.W.4.4
2. What were the major artistic, literary, and technological contributions
of individuals during the Renaissance? (A)
Utopia, Petrarch,
Gutenberg
3. What were the characteristics of Renaissance humanism in works of
Brunelleschi, the
art? (A)
Medici Family,
Michelangelo, da
Vinci, Erasmus,
Thomas More,
Machiavelli,
Shakespeare,
Renaissance
Concept:
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary
Reformation
SS.912.W.4.7
1. What were the criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church by individuals salvation,
Prentice Hall World SS.912.W.4.8
such as Wycliffe, Hus, and Erasmus, and how did they impact later
predestination,
History (2013)
SS.912.W.4.9
reformers? (A, ET)
annul, theocracy,
Chapter 13 Sec. 3-4
SS.912.G.6.4
schism
2. What religious reforms were associated with Luther, Calvin, Zwingli,
Henry VIII, and John of Leyden? (A)
Reformation,
Christian
3. What was the Roman Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant
Humanism,
Reformation in the forms of the Counter and Catholic Reformation?
Protestant, Jesuits
(A)
4. How did the Reformation affect Europe? (ET)
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Exploration
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 14 Sec. 1, 4
Chapter 15 Sec. 3, 5
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.4.11
1. What led to the Age of Exploration? (ET)
SS.912.W.4.12
SS.912.W.4.13
2. Who were the sponsors of major voyages of exploration, and what
SS.912.G.2.2
were the results of those voyages? (ET)
SS.912.G.4.1
SS.912.G.4.4
3. What were the political, economic and cultural changes brought about
by the Columbian Exchange in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas?
(A)
4. How did the economic and political systems of Portugal, Spain, the
Netherlands, France and England operate in the New World? (A)
Concept:
The Trans-Atlantic
slave trade
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 15 Sec. 2, 4
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.4.14
1. How was the practice of slavery and forced labor experienced from the
SS.912.W.4.15
13th to the 17th centuries in Eastern Africa, West Africa, Europe,
SS.912.G.2.1
Southwest Asia and the Americas? (ET)
2. What were the origins, development and impact of the trans-Atlantic
slave trade between West Africa and the Americas? (ET)
Vocabulary:
caravel, astrolabe,
colony, Columbian
exchange,
mercantilism,
balance of trade
Dias, da Gama,
Prince Henry, Dutch
East India
Company,
Columbus
Vocabulary:
encomienda,
mestizos,
triangular trade,
middle passage,
plantation
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! – Europe’s Transition to the Modern World
United Streaming videos:
“Exploring the Renaissance (1350-1650)”
“The High Renaissance”
“The Protestant Reformation (1517-1565)”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(6) Revolutions and Reform
Number of Days:
15
Know:
Understand:
• The ideas from the Middle Ages and
• Enlightenment scientists and thinkers
Renaissance led to the Scientific
challenged old ideas and
Revolution by giving Europeans a new
revolutionized science and
way to view humankind’s place in the
government, leading to a new
universe.
response to absolutism.
•
•
•
The scientific theories and methods of
the Scientific Revolution challenged
those of the early classical and
medieval periods.
The major contributions of Bacon,
Copernicus, Descartes, Galileo, Kepler,
Newton, Pascal, and Vesalius laid the
foundation for a modern worldview
based on rationalism and secularism.
Eighteenth-century intellectuals using
the ideas of the Scientific Revolution to
reexamine all aspects of life caused the
Enlightenment.
•
Ideas of Enlightenment philosophers
included natural rights, equality before
the law, and freedom of religion.
•
Napoleon Bonaparte created the French
Empire.
Do:
•
Compare the causes and effects of the
development of constitutional
monarchy in England with those with
those of the development of absolute
monarchy in Spain, France, and
Russia.
•
Evaluate the impact of Enlightenment
ideals on the development of
economic, political, and religious
structures in the Western world.
•
Analyze the extent to which the
Enlightenment impacted the American
and French Revolutions.
•
Summarize the important causes,
events, and effects of the French
Revolution.
•
Describe the causes and effects of the
19th century Latin American and
Caribbean independence movements
led by people such as Bolivar, de San
Martin, and L’Ouverture.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential
Questions:
Concept:
Scientific Revolution
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 13 Sec. 5
World History HS
(6) Revolutions and Reform
15
Enlightenment scientists and thinkers challenged old ideas and revolutionized science and government, leading to a
new response to absolutism.
How did the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment change the way people viewed the world? How did the
Enlightenment spark wars of revolution?
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
SS.912.W.4.5
1. How did the ideas of the Middle Ages and Renaissance spark the
heliocentric,
SS.912.W.4.6
Scientific Revolution? (ET)
geocentric,
SS.912.W.4.10
ptolemaic system,
2. In what ways did the Scientific Revolution transform European
scientific method,
thought? (ET)
rationalism
3. What were the main ideas of the Scientific Revolution? (A)
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
European politics and SS.912.W.5.1
diplomacy
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 16 Sec. 1-3,
&5
Galileo Galilei,
Copernicus,
Descartes, Isaac
Newton
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
1. What were the causes and effects of the development of constitutional absolute monarch,
monarchy in England? (ET)
divine right,
constitutional
2. What were the causes and effects of absolutism in France, Spain &
monarchy, habeas
Russia? (ET)
corpus, cabinet,
enlightened, despot
Louis XIV, Cardinal
Richelieu, Thirty
Years’ War, Peace
of Westphalia,
Frederick the Great,
Peter the Great, Ivan
the Terrible
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Enlightenment
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 17 Sec. 1-2
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.5.2
SS.912.W.5.3
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What was the Enlightenment? (A)
2. What were the major causes of the Enlightenment? (A)
3. What were the new philosophies that arose from the Enlightenment?
(A)
Concept:
American Revolution
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 17 Sec. 1-3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.5.4
SS.912.W.5.5
SS.912.G.6.4
Concept:
The French
Revolution and
Napoleon’s rule
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 17 Sec. 3
Chapter 18 Sec. 1-4
Concept:
The Haitian and
Latin American
Revolutions
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 20 Sec. 1-3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.5.5
SS.912.W.5.6
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What role did the Enlightenment play in the American Revolution?
(ET)
2. How did the Enlightenment affect the economic, political, and
religious structures in the Western World? (ET)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What role did the Enlightenment play in the French Revolution? (ET)
2. What were the important causes, events and effects of the French
Revolution? (ET)
3. How did the French Revolution lead to Napoleon’s rule? (ET)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.5.7
SS.912.G.4.7
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How were the Haitian and Latin American Revolutions related to the
American and French Revolutions? (ET)
2. To what extent was the Haitian Revolution a successful slave
rebellion? (ET)
3. What led to revolutions in Latin America, and in what ways were
these revolutions successful? (A, ET)
Vocabulary:
social contract,
philosophe, deism,
laissez-faire, salon
John Locke,
Rousseau,
Montesquieu,
Catherine the Great
Vocabulary:
checks and balances,
federal system
Thomas Jefferson,
Declaration of
Independence
Vocabulary:
guillotine, coup
d’état
Estates-General,
National Assembly,
Reign of Terror,
Napoleonic Code
Vocabulary:
peninsulare, creole,
mulatto
Simon Bolivar, Jose
de San Martin
Revised 8/08/12 Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! – Western Europe and the Modern World
United Streaming videos:
“The Age of Reason: Europe After the Renaissance (1642-1800)”
“The French Revolution: Part 01: April 1789-September 1791: Causes and Onset of the Rebellion”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(7) 19th Century Changes
Number of Days:
19
Know:
Understand:
• The Industrial Revolution in Great
• The dynamic forces of industrialism,
Britain saw a shift from an economy
imperialism, and nationalism
based on farming and handicrafts to an
dramatically altered the world.
economy based on manufacturing by
machines and industrial factories.
•
Industrialization spread to continental
Europe, the United States, and Japan.
•
The major reform movements of the
19th and early 20th centuries included
the Meiji Restoration, abolition of
slavery in the British Empire, the
expansion of women’s rights, and labor
laws.
•
The major reform movements of the
19th and early 20th century took place in
Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States,
the Caribbean, and Latin America.
•
The rise of nationalism contributed to
the unification of Italy and Germany.
Do:
•
Summarize the social and economic
effects of the Industrial Revolution.
•
Compare the philosophies of
capitalism, socialism, and communism
as described by Adam Smith, Robert
Owen, and Karl Marx.
•
Analyze the causes and effects of
imperialism.
•
Identify major events in China during
the 19th and early 20th centuries related
to imperialism.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept:
Industrialization
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 19 Sec. 1-2
World History HS
(7) 19th Century Changes
19
The dynamic forces of industrialism, imperialism, and nationalism dramatically altered the world.
What changes occurred in Europe during the nineteenth century as a result of industrialism, imperialism, and
nationalism?
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
SS.912.W.6.1
1. What agricultural and technological innovations spurred
entrepreneur,
SS.912.G.4.4
industrialization? (ET)
industrialization,
SS.912.G.2.1
assembly line, crop
SS.912.G.2.2
2. How did industrialization spread around the globe? (A)
rotation, factory
SS.912.G.4.1
system, enclosure,
3. What was the impact of industrialization around the world? (ET)
capital
Cyrus McCormick,
Francis Cabot
Lowell, Samuel
Morse, Alexander
Graham Bell
Concept:
Effects of
industrialization
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 19 Sec. 1-2
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.6.2
1. How did Industrialization transform gender roles and family? (ET)
SS.912.G.4.3
SS.912.G.4.5
2. How did industrialization change class structure? (ET)
SS.912.G.6.4
3. How did industrialization cause a transformation in working
conditions? (ET)
Vocabulary:
urbanization, union,
strike, class struggle,
feminism, literacy,
middle class
4. How did industrialization lead to urbanization? (ET)
Concept:
New economic ideas
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.6.3
1. What were the similarities and differences between capitalism,
socialism, and communism? (ET)
Vocabulary:
laissez-faire,
capitalism, capital,
stock, corporation,
Revised 8/08/12 Chapter 19 Sec. 3-4
2. Who were the key figures associated with capitalism, socialism,
and communism, and what was the significance of each? (A, ET)
communism,
bourgeoisie,
proletariat,
socialism,
dictatorship,
Adam Smith, Karl
Marx
Vocabulary:
universal suffrage,
emancipation,
abolitionism
Jane Addams
Concept:
Social and political
reforms
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 21 Sec. 3
Chapter 23 Sec. 1-5
Chapter 25 Sec. 4
Chapter 27 Sec. 1-3, 5
Concept:
Unification of Germany
and Italy
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 22 Sec. 1-3
Concept:
Imperialism
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 25 Sec. 2-3
Chapter 27 Sec. 2-3
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.6.4
1. What were the 19th and 20th century social and political reforms,
and what was their impact around the globe? (ET)
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.6.6
1. What were the social and political effects of imperialism? (ET)
SS.912.G.4.9
Vocabulary:
imperialism,
protectorate, indirect
rule, direct rule,
annex, indigenous,
sepoy, viceroy,
creole, peninsulare,
mestizo, caudillo
Concept:
China in the 19th and 20th
centuries
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.6.7
1. What were the major events related to imperialism in 19th and 20th
century China? (A)
Vocabulary:
extraterritoriality,
spheres of influence,
indemnity,
commodity
Benchmark:
SS.912.W.6.5
SS.912.G.4.7
SS.912.G.4.9
Lesson Essential Question:
1. What were the causes, key events, and effects of the unification of
Germany and Italy? (ET)
Vocabulary:
real politik
Kaiser
Revised 8/08/12 Chapter 24 Sec. 1-5
Chapter 27 Sec. 4
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! Program - The Era of Industrial Revolution and Colonialism
United Streaming video:
“The Industrial Revolution (1750-1915)
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(8) The World at War
Number of Days:
24
Know:
Understand:
• The nature of warfare changed during
• The world wars of the 20th century
World War I due to industrialization,
had a major impact on nations around
total war, and trench warfare.
the globe.
•
•
•
The German economic crisis of the
1920s led to the global depression of
the 1930s.
Authoritarian governments began to
spread in the Soviet Union, Italy,
Germany, and Spain.
The policies of Stalin, Mussolini,
Hitler, and Franco allowed them to
establish totalitarian states.
•
The roots and the long tradition of antiSemitism and historical ideas about
race led to the dehumanization of Jews
and other victims by the Nazis.
•
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were
key figures in the World War II period.
•
Although World War II was fought in
Europe, Asia, and Africa, all nations of
the world felt its impact.
•
President Truman decided to drop
atomic bombs on Japan to end the war.
Do:
•
Analyze the causes of World War I
including the formation of European
alliances and the roles of imperialism,
nationalism, and militarism.
•
Summarize the significant effects of
World War I.
•
Trace the causes and key events
related to World War II.
•
Explain the causes, events, and effects
of the Holocaust, 1933-1945.
•
Describe the effects of World War II.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept:
Causes and course
of World War I
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 26 Sec. 1-2
World History HS
(8) The World at War
24
The world wars of the 20th century had a major impact on nations around the globe.
How did the military conflicts in the first half of the 20th century change the world?
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
SS.912.W.7.1
1. What events led to World War I? (A)
2.
How were perspectives on these events similar and different
among nations of the world? (A, ET)
3.
What role did alliances play in World War I?
Vocabulary:
alliance,
imperialism,
nationalism,
militarism,
propaganda,
mobilization
Central Powers,
Allies, Woodrow
Wilson, Archduke
Franz Ferdinand
Concept:
New developments
in warfare
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 26 Sec. 2
Concept:
Effects of World
War I
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 26 Sec. 3-4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.7.2
SS.912.G.1.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did technology change the nature of warfare in World War I?
(ET)
Vocabulary:
total war, trench
warfare, stalemate,
submarine warfare
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.7.3
SS.912.G.4.1
SS.912.G.4.9
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the significant consequences of World War I? (ET)
Vocabulary:
armistice,
reparation, mandate,
self-determination
2. Why was World War I often referred to as the “
Great One”? (ET)
Treaty of Versailles,
League of Nations,
Fourteen Points
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Great Depression
SS.912.W.7.4
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 28 Sec. 2
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What was the relationship between World War I and the German
economic crisis of the 1920s? (ET)
2. How did world governments respond to the Great Depression? (A)
Vocabulary:
depression, coalition
government,
provisional
government,
inflation, stock
market crash
Weimar Republic,
Franklin Roosevelt,
New Deal
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Between world wars SS.912.W.7.5
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 28 Sec. 3-5
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Causes of war
SS.912.W.7.7
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 1-4
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Wartime actions
SS.912.W.7.7
Prentice Hall World SS.912.G.1.4
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 1-4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the authoritarian governments in the Soviet Union, Italy,
Germany, and Spain rise to power? (A)
2. What were the policies and main ideas of Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini,
Hitler, and Franco? (A)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the causes of World War II? (A)
2. How did the events of the 1920’s and 1930’s justify World War II?
(ET)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the wartime strategies of the Axis and Allied powers? (A)
2.
How did the United States respond to its allies prior to 1942? (A)
Vocabulary:
totalitarianism,
fascism,
lebensraum,
collectivization,
Nazism, Mussolini,
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler,
Mein Kampf
Vocabulary:
nonaggression pact,
appeasement,
demilitarize
Third Reich,
Munich Conference
Vocabulary:
isolationism,
blitzkrieg, nonaggression pact
Winston Churchill,
Charles de Gaulle,
Revised 8/08/12 Erwin Rommel,
Maginot Line, Battle
of Britain, Franklin
Roosevelt
Concept:
Benchmark:
War in the Pacific
SS.912.7.7
Prentice Hall World SS.912.7.10
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 1-4
Lesson Essential Question:
1. What led the United States to engage in war with Japan? (A, ET)
2. What was the impact in the United States of war against Japan?
(A, ET)
Vocabulary:
kamikaze, sanction,
embargo, island
hopping, coprosperity sphere,
democratization,
demilitarization,
internment camp
Pearl Harbor,
Douglas MacArthur,
Battle of Midway,
Battle of
Guadalcanal,
Okinawa
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
War in Europe
SS.912.W.7.7
Prentice Hall World SS.912W.7.9
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 1-4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did World War II progress in Europe? (A)
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Mass destruction
SS.912.W.7.10
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the causes and effects of President Truman’s decision to
drop atomic bombs on Japan? (ET)
2. What led to Allied victory in World War II? (A, ET)
Vocabulary:
mobilization
Dwight Eisenhower,
General
Montgomery, DDay, Battle of the
Bulge, Battle for
Stalingrad, Italian
Campaign
Vocabulary:
radiation,
Harry Truman,
Atomic Age,
Manhattan Project
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Allied Victory in
War II
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 5
Concept:
Holocaust
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 29 Sec. 2
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.7.11
SS.912.G.4.9
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What political changes worldwide resulted from World War II? (A)
Vocabulary:
Nuremberg Trials,
United Nations
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.7.8
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the causes, main events, and lasting effects of the
Holocaust? (ET)
Vocabulary:
collaborator,
dehumanization,
anti-Semitism,
ghetto, genocide,
resistance
2. How did the roots and the long tradition of anti-Semitism and
historical ideas about race and religion lead to Nazi dehumanization of
Jews and other victims? (ET)
Aryan, Kristallnacht
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! - Western Europe and the Modern World: The World Wars, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
United Streaming videos:
“World War I and Its Aftermath”
“Great Books: All Quiet on the Western Front”
“World War II”
“The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions”
“Archives of War: World War II: The Leaders”
“Archives of War: World War II: The Battles”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(9) World Recovery
Number of Days:
28
Know:
Understand:
• The United States and Soviet Union
• Post-World War II, including the
aligned states of Europe after WWII.
Cold War era, led to significant
changes in the new world order.
• The characteristics of the early Cold War
included the containment policy, Truman
Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Iron
Curtain, and Warsaw Pact.
•
•
•
The arms race caused many proxy wars
in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the
Middle East during the Cold War.
The establishment of the modern state of
Israel in 1948 has caused ongoing
military and political conflicts between
Israel and the Arab-Muslim world.
Nationalist leaders in the post-war era
include Gandhi, Castro, Nasser,
Duvalier, and Nehru.
•
The democratic reform movements in
Africa, Asia, Caribbean, and Latin
America resulted in a variety of
successes and failures.
•
Religious fundamentalism in the Middle
East has impacted the last half of the 20th
century in Iran, Afghanistan, and the
Persian Gulf.
Do:
•
Contrast the political and economic
characteristics of the United States and
Soviet aligned states of Europe.
•
Summarize the key developments in PostWar China.
•
Identify the factors that led to the decline
and fall of communism in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe.
•
Describe the ongoing conflicts between
Israel and the Arab-Muslim world.
•
Compare post-war independence
movements in African, Asian, and
Caribbean countries.
•
Identify related events and forces in the
Middle East over the last several decades.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
Key Learning:
Unit Essential Question:
Concept:
Cold War
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 30 Sec. 1
World History HS
(9) World Recovery
28
Post-World War II, including the Cold War era, led to significant changes in the new world order.
How did the world change as a result of World War II?
Benchmark(s): Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
SS.912.W.8.1
1. How did the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union brinkmanship, iron
SS.912.W.8.2
change after World War II? (A)
curtain,
containment,
2. How did the political and economic goals of the U.S. and the Soviet
satellite state, arms
Union contrast after World War II? (ET)
race, bloc
3. What significant events contributed to the development of the Cold
War? (A)
4. What successes resulted from Cold War strategies on both
sides? (A)
Concept:
Communist China
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 30 Sec. 3
Chapter 33 Sec. 3
Concept:
Independence
movements and
nation-building in
Africa
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 31 Sec. 1-4
Chapter 32 Sec. 2-3
Chapter 33 Sec. 3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.3
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the key developments in post-war China? (A)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.4
SS.912.W.8.7
SS.912.W.8.8
SS.912.W.8.9
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.2
SS.912.G.4.9
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the arms race and proxy wars impact Africa? (ET)
2. What were the characteristics of the independence movements,
nationalist leaders, and democratic reforms in Africa? (A)
Yalta Conference,
NATO, Marshall
Plan, Warsaw Pact,
Truman Doctrine,
United Nations,
Cold War, Cuban
Missile Crisis
Vocabulary:
Commune
Mao Zedong, Great
Leap Forward,
Cultural Revolution
Vocabulary:
arms race, proxy
wars, apartheid,
dissident,
pan-Africanism
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Independence
movements and
nation-building in
Asia
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 31 Sec. 1-4
Chapter 32 Sec. 2-3
Chapter 33 Sec. 3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.4
SS.912.W.8.7
SS.912.W.8.8
SS.912.W.8.9
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.2
SS.912.G.4.9
SS.912.G.6.4
Concept:
Independence
movements and
nation-building in
Latin America
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 31 Sec. 1-4
Chapter 32 Sec. 2-3
Chapter 33 Sec. 3
Concept:
Independence
movements and
nation-building in the
Middle East
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 31 Sec. 1-4
Chapter 32 Sec. 2-3
Chapter 33 Sec. 3
Concept:
Israel
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 31 Sec. 4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.4
SS.912.W.8.7
SS.912.W.8.8
SS.912.W.8.9
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.2
SS.912.G.4.9
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the arms race and proxy wars impact Asia? (ET)
2. What were the characteristics of the independence movements,
nationalist leaders, and democratic reforms in Asia? (A)
3. What led to the Korean War, and what was its influence on the
balance of power? (A, ET)
4. What were the political, social, and economic effects of the
Vietnam War? (A, ET)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the arms race and proxy wars impact Latin America? (ET)
2. What were the characteristics of the independence movements,
nationalist leaders, and democratic reforms in Latin America? (A)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.4
SS.912.W.8.7
SS.912.W.8.8
SS.912.W.8.9
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.2
SS.912.G.4.9
SS.912.G.6.
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the arms race and proxy wars impact the Middle East? (ET)
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.6
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.2.2
SS.912.G.4.9
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What led to the establishment of Israel in 1948? (A)
2. What were the characteristics of the independence movements,
nationalist leaders, and democratic reforms in the Middle East? (A)
2. How have the conflicts between Israel and the Arab world influenced
relations between other nations in the world? (ET)
Vocabulary:
partition, state
capitalism, domino
theory, 38th parallel
Douglas MacArthur,
Ho Chi Minh, Viet
Cong, Korean War,
Vietnam War
Vocabulary:
multi-national
corporation,
privatization, trade
embargo, contra
Vocabulary:
intifada,
Pan-Arabism, PLO
Vocabulary:
Zionism, Balfour
Declaration
Revised 8/08/12 SS.912.G.6.4
Concept:
Collapse of the
Soviet Union
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 30 Sec. 5
Concept:
Religious
fundamentalism
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 31 Sec. 4
Chapter 32 Sec. 3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.5
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.4.9
SS.912.G.6.4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.8.10
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What factors led to the decline and fall of communism in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe? (A)
2. How did the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe affect the balance of power worldwide? (ET)
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did religious fundamentalism impact the last half of the 20th
century? (ET)
Vocabulary:
perestroika,
glasnost, politburo,
détente
Berlin Wall
Vocabulary:
Mujahideen,
Ayatollah
2. How have events in the 20th and 21st century changed the world? (A)
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
History Alive! – The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, Communist China and Modern Japan, Modern Africa
United Streaming video:
“Archives of War: The Cold War”
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
World History HS
Unit Title:
(10) 20th Century Trends
Number of Days:
20
Know:
Understand:
Do:
th
• Major scientific figures of the 20
• The major economic, political, social,
•
century that had an impact on
and technological trends that began in
contemporary life include Curie,
the twentieth century continue to have
Einstein, Fermi, Freud, the Wright
a global influence.
Brothers, and Drew.
•
•
Major scientific breakthroughs of the
20th century, such as mass vaccinations,
atomic energy, transistors, microchips,
space exploration, the Internet, the
discovery of DNA, and the Human
Genome Project have had an impact on
contemporary life.
Post-WWII economic and demographic
changes included medical and
technological advances, free market
economies, increased consumption of
natural resources and goods, and a rise
in expectations for standards of living.
•
The genocides in Cambodia, the
Balkans, Rwanda, and Darfur have
caused many governmental and nongovernmental responses.
•
Globalization in the 20th and 21st
centuries has increased the
interdependence of people around the
world.
Explain cultural, historical, and
economic factors and governmental
policies that created the opportunities
for genocide in Cambodia, the
Balkans, Rwanda, and Darfur.
•
Describe the causes and effects of 20th
century nationalist conflicts.
•
Analyze the rise of regional trade
blocs such as the European Union and
NAFTA.
•
Assess the social and economic impact
of pandemics on a global scale,
particularly within the developing and
under-developed world.
•
Describe the impact and global
response to international terrorism.
Revised 8/08/12 Course Name:
Unit Title:
Number of Days:
World History HS
(10) 20th Century Changes and 21st Century Trends
20
The major economic, political, social, and technological trends that began in the twentieth century continue to have
Key Learning:
a global influence.
How has the world changed as a result of the major economic, social, political, and technological trends of the
Unit Essential Question:
twentieth and twenty-first century?
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
Scientific
SS.912.W.9.1
1. What were the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th
mass vaccination,
breakthroughs
SS.912.G.1.1
century? (A)
atomic energy,
Prentice Hall World SS.912.G.6.4
genome, transistor,
History (2013)
2. How did these breakthroughs impact contemporary life? (ET)
microchip
Chapter 34 Sec. 5
Green Revolution,
International Space
Station
Concept:
Benchmark(s):
Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary:
th
Global economics
SS.912.W.9.2
1. How did the global economy change in the 20 century? (ET)
free market
Prentice Hall World SS.912.G.4.1
economy, standard
History (2013)
SS.912.G.4.9
of living, emerging
Chapter 33 Sec. 2-3
nations, developed
nations,
globalization,
multinational
corporations,
sustainable growth
Internet
Concept:
Genocide
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 32 Sec. 1-2
Chapter 33 Sec. 2-3
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.9.3
SS.912.G.1.1
SS.912.G.2.1
SS.912.G.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What was the historical background of genocide in Cambodia,
the Balkans, Rwanda and Darfur? (A)
2. What role did these genocides play in the policies of other
nations? (ET)
Vocabulary:
ethnic cleansing,
prejudice, racism,
stereotyping,refugee
Revised 8/08/12 Concept:
Nationalist conflicts
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 32 Sec. 1
Chapter 33 Sec. 2-3
Concept:
Pandemics
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 34 Sec. 3
Concept:
Trade Blocs
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 34 Sec. 2
Concept:
Terrorism
Prentice Hall World
History (2013)
Chapter 34 Sec. 4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.9.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What effects did 20th century nationalist conflicts have around
the world? (ET)
Vocabulary:
IRA, Tibet, Cyprus
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.9.5
SS.912.G.4.4
SS.912.G.1.1
SS.912.G.6.4
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.9.6
SS.912.G.4.4
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. What were the social and economic impacts of pandemics on a
global scale beginning in the 20th century? (ET)
Vocabulary:
pandemic
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How did the rise of regional trade blocs impact the increasing
globalization in the 20th and 21st centuries? (ET)
Vocabulary:
free trade
Benchmark(s):
SS.912.W.9.7
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. How have domestic and international terrorism affected 21st
century politics and lifestyles? (ET)
2. What has been the global response to terrorism? (A, ET)
NAFTA, European
Union
Vocabulary:
bio-warfare,
bioterrorism
Dept. of Homeland
Security
Additional Information:
Additional standards applied to this unit: SS.912.W.1.1, SS.912.W.1.2, SS.912.W.1.3, SS.912.W.1.4, SS.912.W.1.5, SS.912.W.1.6
United Streaming videos:
“Interview with Paul Rusesabagina” (Hotel Rwanda)
“The Cost of Freedom: Civil Liberties, Security, and the USA Patriot Act”
“Al Qaeda after 9/11”