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7th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide 2015-2016
Unit 1:Social Studies 101; Renaissance/Reformation;
Exploration & Global Exchange; Enlightenment and
Revolution
Essential Standards
Unit 1
1st Quarter (9wks)
Topics
Concepts
7.H.1, 7.H.2, 7.G.1, 7.G.2, 7.E.1, 7.C&G.1, 7.C.1
7.H.1 Use historical thinking to analyze various modern societies.
7.H.2 Understand the implications of global interactions.
7.G.1 Understand how geography, demographic trends, and environmental
conditions shape modern societies and regions.
7.G.2 Apply the tools of a geographer to understand modern societies and
regions.
7.E.1 Understand the economic activities of modern societies and regions.
7.C&G.1 Understand the development of government in modern societies
and regions
7.C.1 Understand how cultural values influence relationships between
individuals, groups and political entities in modern societies and regions.
 Geography
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Geography
Renaissance &
Society
Reformation
Region
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Exploration
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Enlightenment & Culture
Revolution
Essential Content
Social Studies 101; Historical Thinking, primary and secondary document analysis, distinguish
between fact/opinion, bias, perspective; Different types of charts and graphs and how to
appropriately select them to most effectively display the data,
Maps, charts, graphs, geographic data and available technology tools are used to organize
information about geographic phenomena
Renaissance/Reformation
Renaissance, and connect it plus the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment. Use the
Glorious Revolution as a starting point for political revolution, then trace the political revolutions
Global Interaction
Vocabulary/
Key Historical Figures
geography, location
place, movement, magnetic
compass, astrolabe,
human environment interaction
physical map, political map
patrons, indulgences, realism
doctrine
linear perspective
corruption, theocracy,
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listed to generalize causes and effects of revolutions. Enlightenment thinkers tried to apply the
laws of nature to human society.
The ideas of the philosophers of the Enlightenment continue to influence us today.
Great discontent was caused by the unequal treatment of members of the three estates in
France.
Introduce industrialization and trace it through urbanization and the pursuit of natural resources
to the need for reform.
Explain ways that subjects of empires challenged the centralized imperial governments, for
example, the challenge of rajputs to the Mughal Sultans.
Describe the causes of and explain the process of the rebellions of British American colonial
subjects, Haitians, Latin Americans, and the French against their monarchy.
Explain how the rebellion in British American colonies facilitated the emergence of independent
states in the USA, Haiti, and Latin America.
Give examples of slave resistance that challenge existing authorities in the Americas, like the
establishment of Maroon (run-away slave) societies.
Explain new questions people had about the legitimacy of the current political authorities, both in
colonial areas and in native-held empires.
Explain how, in colonized areas, these questions led to anti-colonial movements like the Indian
Revolt of 1857 and the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Discuss the Taiping Rebellion in China and explain how it is a rebellion influenced by religious
ideas and millenarianism (the belief of a religious group in a coming major transformation of
society).
Discuss how European political and social ideas spread around the globe and the increasing
number of rebellions stimulated new trans-national ideologies and shared aims.
Define, describe, and explain how the following political ideologies developed from discontent
with monarchies and imperial rule: Liberalism, Socialism, Communism
Explain how demands for women’s suffrage and emerging feminism challenged political and
gender hierarchies.
Seneca Falls Conference in 1848.
Rapid population growth may lead to internal conflict over scare resources.
Nations with populations that exceed its capacity to care for its people may develop strategies to
overcome this issue (i.e. China’s one child rule)
vernacular
counter (Catholic) Reformation,
Renaissance Man
Humanism, colony, conquest,
Encomienda, mercantilism,
capitalism, exploitation
Caravel, ethnocentrism, triangular
trade, middle passage, printing
press
Medici Family
Martin Luther
DaVinci
Michaelangelo
Raphael
Donatello
Shakespeare
Gutenberg
Colombus
Cortez
Pizzarro
Magellan
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Analyze the major political, religious, cultural, and economic transformations in Europe by
explaining the origins, growth, and consequences of European overseas expansion, including
the development and impact of maritime power in Asia and land control in the Americas
Strategies and steps that various non-governmental organizations and governmental agencies
may undertake in order to response to environmental disasters.
Maps, charts, graphs, geographic data and available technology tools are used to organize
information about geographic phenomena
The benefits of saving, investing and giving.
Methods people use to save, invest, and create wealth.
How to use credit and borrowing responsibly.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/socialstudies/inventory/economics-68.html
Factors that may negatively impact quality of life (e.g. accumulating too much debt, not planning
for the future, and spending more than earn).
Various ideas that may have shaped modern political thought such as equality, liberalism,
republicanism, one-man-one vote, rule of law, socialism, reason as the primary source of
legitimacy and authority, natural rights of man, etc
The Western concept of democracy as found in civilizations such as Ancient Roman.
The principles and ideals of Western democracy.
Societies that were influenced by Western democracy such as the United States.
Criteria to judge the extent to which the Western concept of democracy influenced a society
The requirements for citizenship in various nations around the world.
The responsibilities of citizenship in various nations around the world.
Various sources of political power in a society such as wealthy land owners, religious groups,
heads of state, etc
Instances in which different cultural groups united around issues such as humanitarian efforts,
shared religious beliefs, etc.
Instances were cultural groups were in complete opposition to one another such as disputes
over belief systems and religious and other cultural practices
Cultural expressions are generally associated with archives, works of art, places of worship and
monuments, but it also exists in less tangible forms: language, music and dance, festivities,
rituals and traditional craftsmanship.
Specific instances where cultural expressions of the past were reflected in modern society.
Art and other expressions of culture give people self-respect, belief in the future, and a platform
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for freedom of speech and expression.
Ways in which the media transform society (e.g. keeping people informed, but also the power to
persuade people using certain images).
Ways in which cultural expressions can improve quality of life (e.g. attracting tourists to a place;
cultural projects creating jobs and generating income)
Exploration:
Who were some of the major European Explorers and what did they accomplish?
What were the motives for European exploration? (Marco Polo, Zheng He, Christopher
Columbus, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Cortes, Pizarro, Megellan)
What were some of the goods and ideas that resulted from the Columbian Exchange?
How did diseases impact Native populations after contact with Europeans?
What were the motives for European colonization in the New World?
How did differences in cultures create conflict amongst Europeans and Natives?
How did disease impact the Native American population in the Americas?
What were the major European colonies established in the New World? (connection between
lang./geo)
How did location of Africa affect the slave trade?
Why did the importation of African slaves into Europe fail?
What factors allowed the importation of slaves into the Americas to be successful?
How did triangle trade positively impact the people of Europe and America?
How did triangle trade negatively impact the growth and development of the African continent?
How did transportation in Europe improve during the Age of Exploration?
How did the Age of Exploration promote the economic system of capitalism?
How did the desire for wealth cause people to demand resources from other parts of the world?
What were the impacts of imperialism on the indigenous cultures?
Enlightenment and Revolution
Define and describe the Enlightenment
Explain how the ideas of the Enlightenment led to questioning of established traditions in all
areas of life
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How thinkers applied new ways of understanding the natural world (established during the
Scientific Revolution) to human relationships, encouraging observation and inference in all areas
of life
Describe the ideas of two philosophers, Voltaire and Locke
Describe how these thinkers and intellectuals critiqued the traditional role that religion played in
public life, and how they felt reason should take priority over revelation (usually defined as
information given in a religious text, like the Bible)
Describe how Enlightenment thinkers developed new political ideas about the individual, natural
rights, and the social contract
Show how the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers influenced resistance to existing political
authority in several revolutionary documents, including American Declaration of Independence,
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Bolivar of South America’s Jamaica Letter
Describe how Enlightenment ideas influenced many people to challenge existing notions of
social relations and implement new social relationships
Make specific references to expanding rights in suffrage, the abolition of slavery, and the end of
serfdom
Communism, nationalism, imperialism, and militarism should all be introduced here. End the unit
ready for World War I.
Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform
Resources
7th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide 2015-2016
World History For Us All
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/ (primary vs secondary sources)
Symbaloo of resources
www.symbaloo.com/mix/6thsocialstudies1
SAS Curriculum Pathway https://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/portal/#/search?subjectid=4
Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Primary Source Documents:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmfinding.php
YouTube: Crash Course by Keith Hughes https://www.youtube.com/user/hughesDV
Rewordify www.Rewordify.com
Sparknotes for World History www.sparknotes.com/history/
Khan Academy Crash Course in World History
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/crash-course1/crash-course-world-history