Download Essential Curriculum Mapping 8th Grade World History

Curriculum Mapping 8th Grade World History
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AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
1.
Why
should
we
study
1. What role did religion play in
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history?
a culture’s social order?
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2. What characteristics
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identify a civilization?
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3. What role did
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geography play in the
development of ancient
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OCTOBER
August 2014
NOVEMBER
1. What role did geography play
in the development of ancient
civilizations?
2. How did religious beliefs affect
social order?
3. How do blended cultures
occur?
1. What role did geography
play in the development of
ancient civilizations?
2. What are the advantages
and disadvantages of a
feudal system of
government/economic
system?
1. Alabama Course of
Study:
(a) Describe the
development of a classical
civilization in India and
China.
(b) Describe China’s
influence on culture,
politics, and economics in
Japan, Korea and Southeast
Asia.
(c) Describe the key aspects
of pre-Columbian cultures
in the Americas including
the Olmecs, Mayans,
Aztecs, Incas and North
American Tribes.
2. Maps
3. Text Chapter 12, 14, 16
4. History Alive
1. Maps
2. Venn Diagram:
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1. Alabama Course of
Study:
Explain how artifacts and
other archaeological
findings provide evidence
of the nature and
movement of prehistoric
people.
2. Maps
3. Text: Chapter 1
1. Alabama Course of Study:
(a) Explain how artifacts and
other archaeological findings
provide evidence of the nature
and movement of prehistoric
people.
(b) Analyze characteristics of
early civilizations in respect of
technology, division of labor,
government, calendar and
writings.
(c) Compare the development of
early world religions,
philosophies and the key beliefs.
2. Maps
3. Social/Economic features
4. Text: Chapters 2 & 3
1. Alabama Course if Study:
(a) Analyze characteristics of
early civilizations in respect of
technology, division of labor,
government, calendar and
writings.
(b) Compare the development of
early world religions,
philosophies and the key beliefs.
(c) Describe the development of a
classical civilization in India and
China.
(d) Describe China’s influence on
culture, politics, and economics in
Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia.
2. Maps
3. Mandate of Heaven
4. Text: Chapters 6 & 7
5. History Alive
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1. Quiz
2. Atlas coordinates
1. Map Quiz
2. Hieroglyphics Activity
1. Maps
2. Compare Hinduism and
DECEMBER
1. What impact did the
Greeks have on the
development of democratic
political systems?
2. How do blended cultures
occur?
3. What are common causes
of war?
4. How does a great
civilization fail?
5. What rights did individuals
have?
1. Alabama Course of Study:
(a) Compare the development
of early world religions,
philosophies and the key
beliefs.
(b) Identify cultural
contributions of Classical
Greece, including politics,
intellectual life, arts,
literature, and science.
2. Maps
3. Text Chapter 4
4. History Alive
1. Maps
2. Charts: African Cultural
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3. Notebook Check
3. Short Answer /
Discussion Questions
4. Venn Diagram:
Judaism/Christianity
5. Compare Hammurabi’s Code
and 10 Commandments
6. Notebook Check
7. Tests Chapters: 1 & 2
Buddhism
3. Writing Chinese Characters
4. Primary Sources
5. Notebook Check
6. Test: Chapters: 6
Shintoism/Buddhism/Daois
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3. Writing Japanese
Characters
4. Notebook Check
5. Tests Chapters: 14
6. Cumulative Project
Contributions
3. Venn Diagram: Monarchy
and Democracy
4. Writing Greek Letters
5. Notebook Check
6. Test Chapters: 16, 13, 4
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JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
1. What impact did the
Romans have on the
development of
democratic political
systems?
2. How do blended
cultures occur?
3. What are common
causes of war?
1. How does a great civilization
fail?
2. What rights do individuals
have?
3. What are the key aspects of
pre-Columbian cultures in the
Americas?
1. What impact does religion have
on society and education?
2. What was the impact of reason
and philosophy on religious
beliefs?
1. What role did religion
play in a culture’s social
order?
2. What are common causes
of war?
3. What rights do
individuals have?
1. What impact does religion
have on society and
education?
2. What are common causes
of war?
3. What rights do individuals
have?
4. How did feudalism
develop into centralized
governments?
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1. Alabama Course of
Study:
(a) Compare the
development of early
world religions,
philosophies and the key
beliefs.
(b) Identify cultural
contributions of Classical
Greece, including politics,
1. Alabama Course of Study:
(a) Compare the development of
early world religions,
philosophies and the key beliefs.
(b) Trace the expansion of the
Roman Republic and its
transformation into an empire,
including key geographic,
political and economic elements.
(c) Describe the widespread
1. Alabama Course of Study:
(a) Compare the development of
early world religions,
philosophies and the key beliefs
(Christianity).
(b) Describe the rise of the
Byzantine Empire, its institutions,
and its legacy, including the
influence of the Emperors
Constantine and Justinian and the
1. Alabama Course of
Study: Describe early
Islamic civilizations,
including the development
of religious, social and
political systems.
2. Text: Chapter 11
3. Hajii
4. Maps
5. History Alive
1. Alabama Course of Study:
(a) Describe military and
governmental events that
shaped Europe in the early
Middle Ages (600-1000).
(b) Describe major cultural
changes in Western Europe
in the High Middle Ages
(100-1350).
(c) Explain how events and
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intellectual life, arts,
literature, and science
(c) Describe the role of
Alexander the Great in the
Hellenistic world.
2. Maps
3. Text Chapter 5, 8
4. History Alive
impact of the Roman Empire
(d) Describe the rise of the
Byzantine Empire, its
institutions, and its legacy,
including the influence of the
Emperors Constantine and
Justinian and the effect the
Byzantine upon art, religion,
architecture and law.
2. Maps
3. Text Chapter 8 , 9
4. History Alive
5. Roman City
effect the Byzantine upon art,
religion, architecture and law.
(c) Describe military and
governmental events that shaped
Europe in the early Middle Ages
(600-1000).
2. Maps
3. Text Chapter 10, 15
4. History Alive
1 Maps
2. Notebook Check
3. Test Chapters: 5, 8
1 Maps
2. Notebook Check
3. Test Chapters: 8, 9
1 Maps
2. Notebook Check
3. Test Chapters: 10
1. Maps
2. Notebook Check
3. Test Chapter 11
conditions fostered political
and economic changes in the
late Middle Ages and led to
the origins of the
Renaissance.
(d) Trace the development of
the early Russian state and
the expansion of its trade
systems.
(e) Compare the African
civilizations of Ghana, Mali,
and Songhai to include their
geography, religions, slave
trade, economic systems,
empires and cultures.
2. Maps
3. Text Chapter 15, 16, 13
4. History Alive
5. Cathedral
6. Magna Carta
1 Maps
2. Notebook Check
3. Test Chapters: 15