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Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Sept.
1 - US History
1:1, 1:2
2 – World History
2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4
-WHY STUDY
HISTORY?
-WHAT ARE THE
DIFFERENT SOCIAL
STUDIES?
-HOW DOES
HISTORY TELL
TIME?
-HOW DO CULTURE
AND CIVILIZATION
CREATE GLOBAL
HISTORY?
-WHAT ARE THE
DIFFERENT TYPES
OF POLITICAL
SYSTEMS?
-CAN GLOBAL
ECONOMIC
INTERDEPENDENCE
BRING ABOUT
SECURITY AND
PROSPERITY FOR
ALL?
-WHAT ARE THE
BASIC TYPES OF
GEOGRPAHIC
FEATURES?
-HOW CAN
GEOGRAPHY AFFECT
THE WAY PEOPLE
LIVE?
-WHAT
INFORMATION DO
MAPS CONTAIN?
-HOW CAN WE
LEARN ABOUT THE
PAST BY STUDYING
ARTIFACTS?
Content
Geography
-5 Themes
of
Geography
-Social
Sciences
-Role of the
Historian
Skills
Vocabulary
Assessment
1.Map Identification
2.Acquiring Organizing
Analyzing Information
3.Time-Line Sequencing
4.Comparing/
Contrasting
5. Primary Source
Materials *Writing Skills
-Comparison essay
o sociologist
o cartographer
o geographer/geography
o geographic feature
o continents
o Eurasia
o topography
o tundra
o basin
o political scientist
o anthropologist
o culture
o primary source
o secondary source
o artifact
o historian
o archeologist
o economist
o basic economic
questions
o mixed economy
Thematic Essay – Geography
01.09 – Geographic Feature
& Cultural Diffusion
Thematic Essay – Geography
08.08 – How Humans
Changed Their
Environment
Thematic Essay – Human &
Physical Geography 08.03 –
Nile River
Thematic Essay – Geography
& Society 06.02 – Irrigation
Systems
Thematic Essay – Geography
01.02 – Deserts and River
Valleys
Thematic Essay – Geography:
Positive or Negative Effect
06.01 – River Valley,
Mountains, Deserts
Thematic Essay – Science and
Technology 08.00 –
Irrigation Systems
Thematic Essay – Geography
01.09 – Geographic Feature
& Cultural Diffusion
Thematic Essay – Geography
08.08 – How Humans
Changed Their
Environment
Resources
World Map
United States Map
Atlas
Technology
United Streaming
Powerpoints
Smartboard
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Oct.
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
-HOW DID EARLY
HUMAN LIFE
DEVELOP?
-WHAT CAN WE
LEARN ABOUT
HISTORY FROM THE
EARLY ARTISTS?
-WHY WAS THE
NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION
IMPORTANT TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
CIVILIZATION?
-HOW DID THE
NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION
CHANGE HUMAN
SOCIETY?
-WHAT FACTORS
CONTRIBUTED TO
THE CREATION OF
EARLY
CIVILIZATION?
Content
Ancient
World
-Early
peoples
Skills
Vocabulary
Map Reading
– BC vs. AD
o traditional economy
o Paleolithic
o Old Stone Age
o Neolithic Revolution
o nomad / nomadic
o hunter gatherer
o domestication
o hominid
o fertile
o migration
o technology
o scarcity
o subsistence farming
o agriculture
o slash and burn farming
o cultivation
o surplus
o self sufficiency
o specialization
o barter system
o animism
o traditional society
o time line
o Autobiography
o matriarchal/patriarchal
Development
o Thesis Statement
o Introduction
Paragraph
o Paragraph
Development
-Neolithic
Revolution
Characteristics
of Civilizations
- Rise of
Civilizations
Nov.
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
-WHY DID EARLY
CIVILIZATION
DEVELOP IN THE
FERTILE CRESCENT?
-WHAT WERE THE
OUTSTANDING
ACHIEVEMENTS OF
Early River
Valley
Civilizations
Assessment
Thematic Essay – Change:
Turning Points 08.01 –
Neolithic Revolution
Thematic Essay – Science and
Technology 08.00 – Neolithic
Revolution
Document Based Question –
Revolutions: NonPolitical
01.04 – Neolithic
Revolution (3 Documents)
Document Based Question –
Turning Points 06.03 –
Neolithic Revolution (3
Documents)
People:
o Louis & Mary Leakey
o Donald Johanson, Lucy
Map
Reading/Interpretation
Development
o civilization
o Middle East
o Fertile Crescent
o Mesopotamia
o Tigris & Euphrates
o city-state
Thematic Essay – Human &
Physical Geography 08.03 –
Nile River
Thematic Essay – Geography
& Society 06.02 – Irrigation
Systems
Resources
Month
Standards
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
Essential
Questions
SUMERIAN
CIVILIZATION?
-HOW DID STRONG
RULERS SHAPE THE
CIVILIZATION OF
THE FERTILE
CRESCENT?
-DID
HAMMAURABI’S
CODE PROVIDE
JUSTICE FOR
ANCIENT BABYLON?
-HOW DID
GEOGRAPHY
INFLUENCE
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
CIVILIZATION?
-HOW WAS
EGYPTIAN SOCIETY
ORGANIZED?
-HOW DID
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
SHAPE THE LIVES OF
EGYPTIANS?
-WHAT
CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM ANCIENT
EGYPT DO WE SEE
IN THE MODERN
WORLD?
-HOW DID
GEOGRAPHY HELP
SHAPE THE EARLY
INDIAN
CIVILIZATION?
-WHAT HAVE
ARCHEOLOGISTS
DISCOVERED ABOUT
Content
- Tigris &
Euphrates Rivers
(Mesopotamia)
- Nile River
(Egypt)
- Indus River
(India)
- Yellow River
(China)
.
Skills
Vocabulary
Assessment
o Thesis Statement
o Paragraph
Development
o Document Analysis
(summation, outside
info, citation, grouping
of documents within the
essay, point-of-view,
incorporating
scaffolding questions
into the essay)
o natural resources
o cuneiform
o cultural diffusion
o empire
o Sumeria
o Hammurabi’s Code
o polytheism
o ziggurat
o Phoenicians
o Nile
o delta
o irrigation
o oasis
o natural barriers
o cataract
o Old & Middle Kingdoms
o theocracy
o mummification
o pharaoh
o Hieroglyphics
o papyrus
o Indus
o Himalayas
o subcontinent
o monsoon
o Deccan Plateau
o Aryans
o Harappa
o Mohenjo-Daro
o urban planning
o Huang He & Yangtze
o Gobi desert
o dynasty/dynastic cycle
o mandate of heaven
o flood plain
o pictograph
Thematic Essay – Geography
01.02 – Deserts and River
Valleys
Thematic Essay – Geography:
Positive or Negative Effect
06.01 – River Valley,
Mountains, Deserts
Thematic Essay – Science and
Technology 08.00 –
Irrigation Systems
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 –
Hammurabi
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
Assessment
THE EARLY CITIES
OF THE INDUS
RIVER VALLEY?
-HOW DID
GEOGRAPHY AFFECT
THE DEVELOPMENT
OF EARLY CHINESE
CIVILIZATION?
-HOW DID
PHOENICIAN IDEAS
SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE
MEDITERRANEAN
WORLD?
-WHAT
CONTRIBUTIONS
DID PERSIANS MAKE
TO CIVILIZATION?
Dec.
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
-HOW WERE
HEBREW RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS UNIQUE IN
THE ANCIENT
WORLD?
-HOW DID
CONFUCIAN
PHILOSOPHY HELP
CREATE CHINESE
CIVILIZATION?
-WHAT ARE THE
CENTRAL BELIEFS
OF HINDUISM?
-HOW DO THE
CHINESE
PHILOSOPHIES OF
LEGALISM AND
TAOISM DIFFER?
-WHAT ARE THE
Belief
Systems
-Africa
-Asia
-India
-Middle East
Essay writing form
and content (Practice)
Comparison of World
religions
Graphic organizers
Reading
Comprehension
Compare & Contrast
Change over time
essays
:
o Hinduism
o Brahma
o karma
o dharma
o reincarnation
o caste system
o untouchables
o Vedas
o Upanishads
o Rig Veda
o Judaism
o monotheism
o Torah
o Ten Commandments
o Exodus
o famine
o synagogue
o covenant
Thematic Essay – Belief
Systems 06.08 – Practices &
Influences
Thematic Essay – Justice and
Human Rights 06.00 – Caste
System
Thematic Essay – Change:
Philosophers and Leaders
01.06 – Confucius
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 –
Confucius
Thematic Essay – Belief
Systems 06.08 – Practices &
Influences
Thematic Essay – Change:
Philosophers and Leaders
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
CENTRAL BELIEFS
OF BUDDHISM?
-HOW DID
BUDDHISM BECOME
A MAJOR WORLD
RELIGION?
-WHAT MORAL
VALUES DOES
JUDAISM TEACH?
-WHY DID
CHRISTIANITY
SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD?
-WHAT ARE THE
CENTRAL BELIEFS
OF ISLAM?
-HOW DID ISLAM
SPREAD RAPIDLY
OVER A WIDE AREA?
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
o Palestine
o Yahweh
o Israel
o Solomon’s Temple
o Mosaic Law
o prophet
o migration
o rabbi
o Diaspora
o Hammurabi
o Abraham
o Moses
o David
o Solomon
o Allah
o mosque
o Koran
o Qur’an
o hajj
o five pillars
o Ramadan
o Muslims
o Medina
o Sunni
o Shia
o Hegira
o jihad
o Shari’ah
o Muhammad
o Abu Bakr
Assessment
01.06 – Muhammad
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 –
Muhammad
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals 08.02 –
Muhammad
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Jan.
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
-HOW DID
GEOGRAPHY SHAPE
GREEK
CIVILIZATION?
-HOW DID
POLITICAL LIFE IN
SPARTA DIFFER
FROM ATHENS?
-HOW DID GREEK
IDEAS ABOUT
GOVERNMENT
INFLUENCE LATER
SOCIETIES?
-WHAT
CONTRIBUTIONS
DID GREEK
PHILOSOPHERS
MAKE TO THE
WORLD?
-WHAT
CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM ANCIENT
GREECE DO WE SEE
IN THE MODERN
WORLD?
-WHY DID TRADE
ROUTES FOSTER
INTERDEPENDENCE
AND CULTURAL
DIFFUSION?
-WAS ALEXANDER
THE GREAT A HERO
OR A VILLAIN?
-WHY DID “ALL
ROADS LEAD TO
ROME?”
-TO WHAT EXTENT
WAS ROME AN
Classical
Civilizations
Map
Reading/Interpretation
-Ancient
Greece
- Roman
Empire
- Han Dynasty
- Maurya
&Gupta
Empires
-Rise and Fall
of Empires
Vocabulary
Hellenistic
Pax Romana
Maurya
Gupta
concept of zero
Development
Sanskrit
Asoka
o Thesis Statement
T’ang
o Paragraph
Song
Development
Grand Canal
o Document Analysis
magnetic compass
(summation, outside
block printing
info, citation, grouping
of documents within the movable type
gunpowder
essay, point-of-view,
abacus
incorporating
mechanical water clock
scaffolding questions
porcelain
into the essay)
alchemy
footbinding
civil service exam
meritocracy
Assessment
Thematic Essay – Geography
& Society 06.02 – Roman
Roads
Thematic Essay – Geography
01.02 – Coastline & Climate
of Greece
Thematic Essay – Change:
Turning Points 08.01 – Fall
of Rome
Thematic Essay – Geography:
Positive or Negative Effect
06.01 – Climate of Greece
Thematic Essay – Science and
Technology 08.00 – Roman
Aqueducts
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 –
Aristotle
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 –
Alexander
Thematic Essay – Political
Systems 08.07 – Direct
Democracy
Thematic Essay – Change:
Turning Points 08.01 – Fall
of Rome
Document Based Question –
Women’s Roles 08.01 – Han
Women (1 Document)
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
IMITATOR OF GREEK
CULTURE?
-HOW DID ROMANS
INFLUENCE OUR
SYSTEM OF
GOVERNMENT?
-WHY WERE
CHRISTIANS
PERSECUTED
UNDER THE ROMAN
EMPIRE?
-WHY WAS JULIUS
CAESAR
ASSASSINATED?
-HOW DID HAN
RULERS SHAPE
CHINESE
GOVERNMENT?
-WHAT IDEAS
ABOUT
GOVERNMENT DID
THE CHINESE
DEVELOP?
-WHY DO GREAT
EMPIRES DECLINE?
-HOW DID THE
CASTE SYSTEM
ORGANIZE HINDU
SOCIETY?
-WHAT MADE THE
MAURYA EMPIRE A
CLASSICAL
CIVILIZATION?
-HOW DID
HINDUISM HELP
THE GUPTA
CONTROL THEIR
EMPIRE?
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
Assessment
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
Assessment
-HOW DO CLASSICAL
CHINESE
CIVILIZATIONS HELP
US TO UNDERSTAND
HUMAN
SOCIETY?
-WHAT WERE SOME
OF THE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF
THE EARLY
CHINESE?
-DID THE CHINESE
HAVE A TRUE
“CLASSICAL AGE?”
-HOW DID THE SILK
ROAD ENCOURAGE
CULTURAL
DIFFUSION?
Feb.
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
-HOW DID THE
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
SHAPE WORLDS
HISTORY?
-HOW DID THE
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
INFLUENCE
EUROPEAN
HISTORY?
-How did the Mongol
Conquer and Rule a
Diverse Empire?
-What made Ghengis
Khan become
Emperor of the
Eurasian World?
- What impact did
Mongol Rule have on
other societies?
Golden
Ages
- Tang & Song
Dynasty
- Byzantine
Empire
- Ummayad &
Abbasid
Empires
Map
Reading/Interpretation
o Constantinople
o Bosporus Strait
o Vikings
o icons
Development
o Justinian Code
o Eastern Orthodoxy
o Thesis Statement
o schism
o Paragraph
o patriarch
Development
o Hagia Sophia
o Document Analysis
o Kiev
(summation, outside
o Cyrillic
info, citation, grouping
o czar
of documents within the o slavs
essay, point-of-view,
o Justinian
incorporating
o Theodora
scaffolding questions
o Arabian Penninsula
into the essay)
o oasis
o Islam
Document Based Question –
Conquests 01.05 – Mongols
(3 Documents
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals 08.02 – Genghis
Khan
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
-Why did the Mongol
Empire eventually
decline?
-What made the West
African Empires
great?
-What made the West
African Empires
great?
-How did trade affect
the Kingdoms of
West Africa?
Content
- Mongols
- Africa
Skills
Vocabulary
o Baghdad
o caliphate
o calligraphy
o geometric art
o astrolabe
o topography of Africa
o desertification
o terrace farming
o savanna
o Great Rift Valley
o clan
o Bantu
o Ghana
o Mali
o Songhai
o Timbuktu
o Great Zimbabwe
o Swahili
o scarcity
o gold-salt trade
o animism
o ancestor worship
o Mansa Musa
o Ibn Battuta
o steppes
o pastoralist
o Golden Hoard
o tributary system
o Pax Mongolia
o Yuan Dynasty
o Ming Dynasty
o ethnocentric
o Genghis Khan
o Kublai Khan
o Marco Polo
o Zheng He
Assessment
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
March
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
-HOW DID
FEUDALISM
ORGANIZE
MEDIEVAL LIFE IN
EUROPE?
-WHAT WAS THE
GOAL OF THE
CRUSADES?
-WHAT CHANGES
DID THE CRUSADES
MAKE TO THE
MEDIEVAL WORLD?
-TO WHAT EXTENT
CAN ONE
CIVILIZATION
IMPACT ON
ANOTHER?
-How has Geography
Influenced Japan’s
Development?
-How did Feudalism
shape Japanese
Society?
-Did the Tokugawa
Dynasty benefit or
hurt Japan?
-How was Japanese
Feudalism similar to
Feudalism in
Western Europe?
-What foreign ideas
did Japan adopt and
adapt?
-How did Shintoism
affect Japanese
Society?
-How does Haiku
Poetry reflect
Content
Medieval
Europe
-Middle Ages
-Feudalism
(Europe &
Japan)
-Crusades
-Black Plague
-Rise of Towns
and Trade
Skills
• Map
Reading/Interpretation
/ Chart Reading
• Vocabulary
Development
• Art/Visual Analysis
• Essay Writing:
o Thesis Statement
o Paragraph
Development
o Document Analysis
(summation, outside
info, citation, grouping
of documents within the
essay, point-of-view,
incorporating
scaffolding questions
into the essay)
o On-Demand Essay
Writing (timed, selforganized essay
writing)
Vocabulary
o archipelago
o tsunami
o typhoons
o Shinto
o kami
o kamikaze
o Zen Buddhism
o shogun
o daimyo
o samurai
o Code of Bushido
o cultural diffusion
o terrace gardens
o Zen gardens
o kabuki theater
o Tokugawa
o Shogunate
Assessment
Document Based Question –
Turning Points 06.09 –
Middle Ages/Crusades (3
Documents)
Document Based Question –
Economic Systems 06.07 –
Manorialism (3
Documents)
Document Based Question –
Economic Reform 01.02 –
Tokugawa Japan (1
Document)
Document Based Question –
Wars 06.05 – Crusades (2
Documents)
Document Based Question –
Epidemics 08.04 – Black
Death (3 Documents)
Thematic Essay – Change
01.08 – Nonpolitical
Revolutions
Thematic Essay – Movement
of People & Goods: Trade
08.06 – Mediterranean
Trade
Thematic Essay – Movement
of People & Goods: Trade
08.06 – Hanseatic League
Thematic Essay – Conflict:
Threatened Peace 06.06 –
Crusades
Thematic Essay – Economic
Systems 08.04 –
Manorialism
Thematic Essay – Change
06.04 – Turning Points
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
Japanese Society?
-Why was the Sung
an important Chinese
Dynasty?
- How did a Revival
of Trade cause
Europe to be
Reborn?
-What factors made
Cities into Important
and Wealthy Trading
Centers?
-Why did the Ming
Dynasty end the
Voyages of Zheng
He?
-What was the
Impact of the Plague?
-What was the
Impact of the Plague?
-How did the Plague
lead to Religious
Persecution?
April
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
-What was the
“Renaissance Man or
Women” like?
- How did Literature
reflect Renaissance
ideas?
-What Beliefs are
reflected in
Renaissance Music?
-What Ideas are
expressed in
Renaissance Art?
-Why was
Assessment
Thematic Essay – Change:
Turning Points 08.01 –
Commercial Revolution
Global
Interactions
Map
Reading/Interpretation
- Renaissance
Development
- Reformation
o Thesis Statement
o Paragraph
Development
o Document Analysis
(summation, outside
- Absolutism
o Renaissance
o secular
o vernacular
o patronage
o humanism
o perspective
o realism
o Renaissance man
o Italian city-states
(Florence)
o printing press
o movable type
o The Prince
Thematic Essay – Change:
Leaders 08.05 – Elizabeth
Thematic Essay – Change
06.04 – Turning Points
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 –
Gutenberg
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals Who Have
Changed History 01.04 – da
Vinci
Thematic Essay – Change:
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Renaissance Science
Opposed by the
Church?
-What role did
Women play in the
Renaissance World?
-How did Absolute
Monarchs justify
their rule?
-How did Limited
Monarchy develop in
England?
-How did the English
Bill of Rights
influence our Bill of
Rights?
-Was it inevitable
that English
monarchs would lose
their power?
-Was it inevitable
that English
monarchs would lose
their power?
- Were the Czars of
Russia really great?
Content
Skills
info, citation, grouping
of documents within the
essay, point-of-view,
incorporating
scaffolding questions
into the essay)
o On-Demand Essay
Writing (timed, selforganized essay
writing)
Vocabulary
o Da Vinci
o Michelangelo
o Nicolo Machiavelli
o Gutenberg
o Lorenzo De Medici
o Queen Elizabeth
o Shakespeare
o 95 theses
o Vatican City
o indulgence
o Reformation
o Counter (Catholic)
o Reformation
o doctrine
o heresy
o nepotism
o predestination
o papacy
o salvation
o Diet of Worms
o Peace of Augsburg
o Gutenberg Bible
o Act of Supremacy
o Anglican Church
o Jesuits
o Council of Trent
o Martin Luther
o Pope Leo X
o John Calvin
o Henry VIII
o Loyola
o absolutism
o divine right
o autocracy
o nation states
o parliament
o constitutional
Assessment
Individuals 08.02 – Queen
Elizabeth
Thematic Essay – Science and
Technology 08.00 – Printing
Press
Document Based Question –
Individuals 01.09 –
Renaissance (3 Documents)
Document Based Question –
Technology 08.05 – Printing
Press (4 Documents)
Thematic Essay – Political
Change 06.07 – Henry VIII
Thematic Essay – Change:
Leaders 08.05 – Martin
Luther
Thematic Essay – Change:
Individuals 08.02 – Martin
Luther
Resources
Month
May
Standards
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
3 – Geography
3:3, 3:4
Essential
Questions
-How did
Technological
Progress lead to
Exploration?
Content
The
Americas
Skills
*Time-Line
*Reading
Comprehension
Map
Vocabulary
monarchy
o Spanish Armada
o Romanov Dynasty
o warm water port
o Grand Embassy
o westernization
o St. Petersburg
o Versailles
o Petition of Right
o English Bill of Rights
o Habeas Corpus
o tariff
o inflation
o bourgeoisie
o favorable balance of
trade
o Restoration
o Glorious Revolution
o sultan
o janissaries
o harem
o millet
o the Mughals
o Louis XIV
o Phillip II
o Ivan the Terrible
o Peter the Great
o Charles I
o Charles II
o Oliver Cromwell
o William and Mary
o Suleiman
o Akbar the Great
o maritime trade
o magnetic compass
o astrolabe
o cartographer
Assessment
Thematic Essay – Science and
Technology 08.00 –
Astrolabe
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
-Would you have
been an Explorer in
the 16th Century?
-Was the Age of
Exploration a
blessing or a curse to
the World?
-Should Columbus be
considered a Hero or
a Villain?
-Why did Martin
Luther oppose the
Church?
-Why did the
Protestant
Reformation Spread
throughout Europe?
-How did the Catholic
Church respond to
the Reformation?
-How did the
Commercial
Revolution create
Wealthy European
Nations?
-How did the First
people reach the
Americas?
-What effects did
Geography have on
Mesoamerican life?
-What were the main
achievements of the
Mayan Civilization?
-What were the
achievements of the
Mayan Civilization?
-How did the Aztecs
Content
PreColumbian
Civilizations
Age of
Exploration
Skills
Reading/Interpretation
• Chart Reading
• Vocabulary
Development
• Essay Writing:
o Thesis Statement
o Paragraph
Development
o Document Analysis
(summation, outside
info, citation, grouping
of documents within the
essay, point-of-view,
incorporating
scaffolding questions
into the essay)
Vocabulary
o Mercator projection
o Henry the Navigator
o Vasco da Gama
o Bartholomeu Dias
o Mesoamerica
o pre-Columbian
o Maya
o Aztec
o Inca
o Mayan calendar
o concept of zero
o glyphs
o floating gardens
o Tenochtitlan
o terracing
o foot bridges
o quipu
o mita
o Machu Pichu
o Andes Mountains
o Incan Road system
o Incan farming system
o pampas
o Atahualpa
o Montezuma
o conquistadors
o encomienda
o Treaty of Tordesillas
o Columbian Exchange
o colony
o mother country
o mercantilism
o mita
o peninsulares
o creoles
o mestizos
o mulattoes
Assessment
Resources
Month
June
Standards
2 – World
History 2:1, 2:2
4-Economics 4:1,
4:2
5 – Civics,
Citizenship &
Gov’t – 5:1, 5:4
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
build a Great
Empire?
-What facts do we
know about the Inca
Empire?
-How were the
Spanish able to
conquer the Aztec
and Inca Empires?
-Why did the Aztec
and Inca Civilizations
disappear?
-What changes did
the Spanish conquest
of South America
bring?
-How did Spain
govern American
colonies?
o the West Indies
o sugar
o molasses
o slavery
o triangular trade
o Middle Passage
o Ferdinand and Isabella
o Christopher Columbus
o Hernan Cortes
o Francisco Pizarro
o Magellan
-HOW WAS
PEOPLE’S
UNDERSTANDING
OF THE WORLD
CHANGED BY THE
SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTION?
-HOW DID
ENLIGHTENMENT
THINKERS DIFFER
ON THE ROLE OF
GOVERNMENT?
-HOW DID
ENLIGHTENED
IDEAS INFLUENCE
THE AMERICAN
SYSTEM OF
GOVERNMENT?
o Scientific Revolution
o scientific method
o geocentric
o heliocentric
o telescope
o the Enlightenment
o the Age of Reason
o balance of powers
o natural rights
o social contract
o general will
o philosophers
o separation of powers
o secularism
o deist
o belief in progress
o enlightened despot
Revolutions
- Scientific
Revolution
-The
Enlightenment
- French
Assessment
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
-IS ADAM SMITH’S
CAPITALISM A GOOD
ECONOMIC SYSTEM
FOR
AMERICA TO
FOLLOW?
-IS REVOLUTION
THE INEVITABLE
RESULT OF
COLONIALISM?
-HOW DID
ENGLAND’S
ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL POLICIES
BRING ON
THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION?
-WHAT WERE THE
CAUSES OF THE
FRENCH
REVOLUTION?
-WHO BENEFITED
FROM THE EARLY
STAGES OF THE
FRENCH
REVOLUTION?
-SHOULD THE
FRENCH
REVOLUTION BE
REMEMBERED FOR
ITS
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
OR ITS EXCESSES?
-WAS NAPOLEON
TRUE TO THE GOALS
OF THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION?
Content
Revolution
- Congress of
Vienna
Skills
Vocabulary
o popular sovereignty
o Leviathan
o Two Treatises of
Government
o Copernicus
o Galileo
o Newton
o Descartes
o John Locke
o Thomas Hobbes
o Jean Jacques Rousseau
o Voltaire
o Montesquieu
o Diderot
o Catherine the Great
o Joseph II
o Mary Wollstonecraft
o Frederick II of Prussia
o Adam Smith
o Estates General
o Old Regime
o Bourgeoisie
o Bastille
o National Assembly
o Tennis Court Oath
o Declaration of the
Rights of Man
o guillotine
o Reign of Terror
o Jacobins
o Committee of Public
Safety
o radicals
o moderates
o conservatives
o Directory
o coup d’etat
Assessment
Resources
Month
Standards
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Vocabulary
o Napoleonic Code
o Continental System
o invasion of Russia
o scorched earth policy
o Waterloo
o Congress of Vienna
o Liberalism
o Conservatism
o balance of power
o legitimacy
o compensation
o Great Powers
o Louis XVI
o Marie Antoinette
o Robespierre
o Napoleon
o Klemens von Metternich
Assessment
Resources