Lesson Plans
World History
Grade 10
Mrs. Newgard
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Monday, October 12
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Compare/Contrast Portuguese and Spanish exploration
 Bell Ringer
 Watch CNN Student News
 Steve Dunn
 Compare/Contrast
 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Exploration
 Assign:
o Paragraphs
o Due: TUESDAY
Monday, October 12
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the Great Age of Exploration
 Bell Ringer
 Discovery Education:
https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/4C8D132C-0EAE-49DC-A61D86E488ECA7F5
 Video and Discussion Questions
 (Half the video)
 Study Guide
Tuesday, October 13
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the Great Age of Exploration
 Bell Ringer
 Finish Discovery Education video
 Discussion questions
 Study Guide
Wednesday, October 14
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Review information on the scientific revolution and enlightenment
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Bell Ringer
Review Day
 Bazinga
Thursday, October 15
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Showcase information on the scientific revolution and enlightenment
 Bell Ringer
 CHAPTER 15 TEST
Friday, October 16
o Standard: 9-12.2.13 – Explain the growth and expansion of global economics and their
impact on world regions.
o Objective: Discover how colonization in the new world began
 Bell Ringer Quiz
 Read 16.1
 Assign:
 Vocabulary
Monday, October 5
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how to compare/contrast with Steve Dunn’s method
 Bell Ringer
 Steve Dunn Compare/Contrast
Tuesday, October 6
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how to compare/contrast with Steve Dunn’s method
 Bell Ringer
 Steve Dunn Compare/Contrast
Wednesday, October 7
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Discover why Europeans began exploring different parts of the world and
what technological developments made that possible.
 Bell Ringer
 Start reading 15.4 together
Thursday, October 8
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
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Objective: Learn about the initial phases of Portuguese and Spanish exploration.
 Bell Ringer
 Start 15.4 Review
 Assign:
 15.4 Review – pg. 416, terms AND locate, 1-3, 5
 Due: MONDAY
Friday, October 9
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Compare/Contrast Portuguese and Spanish exploration
 Bell Ringer Quiz
 Take Steve Dunn C/C Notes together on the board
 Discuss rubric
 Assign:
 Compare and Contrast essay: Portuguese and Spanish exploration
 Due: TUESDAY
Monday, September 28
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the different types of text structures
 Bell Ringer
 Steve Dunn: Text structures
 Cause/Effect
 Start 15.2 Notes “Breakdown of Medieval Social Order”
 Watch CNN Student News
Tuesday, September 29
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the different types of text structures
 Bell Ringer
 Steve Dunn: Text structures
 Problem/Solution
o Compare with Cause/Effect
 Start 15.2 Notes “Breakdown of Medieval Social Order”
 Read “Economic Changes” together and try to figure out text structure
o First paragraph together
o Second paragraph independently
 Watch CNN Student News
Wednesday, September 30
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Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the different types of text structures
 Bell Ringer
 Steve Dunn: Text structures
 Description
 Start 15.2 Notes “Breakdown of Medieval Social Order”
 Read first paragraph in section with “Great Chain of Being”
 Watch CNN Student News
Thursday, October 1
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the different types of text structures
 Bell Ringer
 Steve Dunn: Text structures
 Read through the rest of the section together – figure out text structures!
Friday, October 2
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn about the different types of text structures
 Bell Ringer Quiz
 Steve Dunn: Text structures
 Watch CNN Student News
 Assign:
 15.2 Review – pg. 401, terms, 1-5
 Be very descriptive on #4
 Due: MONDAY
Monday, September 21
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how some Europeans justified absolutism and how French rulers used
absolutism
 Bell Ringer
 Notes 15.1 “Doctrines of Political Absolutism” and “Absolutism in France”
 Explore http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/france-in-theseventeenth-century/absolutism-and-france/
 Edmodo question
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Tuesday, September 22
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how some Europeans justified absolutism and how French rulers used
absolutism
 Bell Ringer
 Notes 15.1 “Absolutism in Russia”
 Steve Dunn Compare/Contrast
 Edmodo question
 Assign:
 15.1 Review – pg. 397, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: FRIDAY
Wednesday, September 23
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Discover how absolutism affected Germany and eastern Europe and why it
failed in England
 Bell Ringer
 Notes 15.1 “Absolutism in Germany and Central Europe” to end
 Steve Dunn Compare/Contrast
 Edmodo question
 Assign:
o 15.1 Review – pg. 397, identify with significance, 1-5
o Due: FRIDAY
Thursday, September 24
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Discover how absolutism affected Germany and eastern Europe and why it
failed in England
 Bell Ringer
 Notes 15.1 “Absolutism in Germany and Central Europe” to end
 Steve Dunn Compare/Contrast
 Edmodo question
 Assign:
o 15.1 Review – pg. 397, identify with significance, 1-5
o Due: FRIDAY
Friday, September 25
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
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Objective: Find out what social and economic changes affected life in early modern
Europe, the consequences of living in European towns, and why so many people were
accused of witchcraft.
 Bell Ringer Quiz
 Notes 15.2 “Early Modern European Society”
 Edmodo question
 Assign:
o 15.1 Review – pg. 401, identify with significance, 1-5
o Due: MONDAY
Monday, September 14
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Review material presented on the Renaissance and Reformation
 Complete study guide – double check with a classmate
Tuesday, September 15
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Review material on the Renaissance and Reformation
 STUDY GAME: Bazinga!
 Turn in study guide for points
Wednesday, September 16
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Test knowledge of the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and
the Enlightenment
 Chapter 14 TEST
Thursday, September 17
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how some Europeans justified absolutism and how French rulers used
absolutism
 Notes 15.1 “Doctrines of Political Absolutism” and “Absolutism in France”
 Explore http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/france-in-theseventeenth-century/absolutism-and-france/
 Edmodo question
Friday, September 18
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Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
Objective: Learn how some Europeans justified absolutism and how French rulers used
absolutism
 Notes 15.1 “Absolutism in Russia”
 Edmodo question
 Assign:
 15.1 Review – pg.
 Due: MONDAY
Monday, September 7
o Standard: N/A
o Objective: N/A
 NO SCHOOL – Labor Day
Tuesday, September 8
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how the Renaissance spread across Europe and how it was different
from the Italian Renaissance.
 Notes 14.3
 Answer Edmodo Objective Question
 Assign:
 14.3 Review –pg. 379 (no terms) 1-5
 Due: WEDNESDAY
Wednesday, September 9
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: What issues led to the Protestant Reformation in Germany and how did it
spread to other parts of Europe.
 Watch 97 Theses Music Video
 Notes “The Protestant Reformation” and “The Spread Protestantism”
 Edmodo Question
 Assign:
 14.4 Review – page 386, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: FRIDAY
Thursday, September 10
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Discover how the Catholic Church countered the Protestant Reformation and
what the causes of the religious wars were.
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Notes 14.4 “The Catholic Reformation” and “The Wars of Religion”
Edmodo Question
Assign:
 14.4 Review – page 386, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: FRIDAY
Friday, September 11
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Review information about the Renaissance and Reformation
 Study Guide
 Test: TUESDAY
Wednesday, August 26
o Standard: N/A
o Objective: Learn the classroom rules and procedures
 Discuss summer
 Classroom Rules
 Belief System
 Procedures
Thursday, August 27
o Standard: 9-12.1.1 – Interpret and evaluate a variety of visual representations of data
 9-12.1.3 – Draw conclusions based on the research processes
 Pass out books
 Read intro to Chapter 1
o Challenges for historians
o Examine timeline
 Introduce Chapter 1
o Give 5 minutes to read
 Ask open-ended questions
o Discuss
o Look at map
 Notes on Chapter 1
 Discuss Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
o End: Why is it important to study the early development of
man?
Friday, August 28
o Standard: 9-12.1.4 – Use media to access, record, analyze, and communicate
information relating to social studies
 Review yesterday
 Get logged into Edmodo
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 Take vocabulary quiz
 Assign:
 Read 14.1
 Due: MONDAY
Monday, August 31
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Learn how the changing climate and Black Death affected Europe
 Watch “Black Death” http://www.history.com/topics/black-death
 Surf website
 Discuss
 Notes up to “Challenge of War and National Unity”
 Edmodo Objective Question
 Assign:
 14.1 Review – pg. 366, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: WEDNESDAY
Tuesday, September 1
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Discover the consequences of warfare in the 1300s and how the rise of
national monarchies affected the church.
 Notes 14.2 “The Challenge of War and National Unity” to end
 Edmodo Objective Questions (2)
 Assign:
 14.1 Review – pg. 366, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: WEDNESDAY
Wednesday, September 2
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Find out the cause of the Commercial Revolution
 Begin notes 14.2 “The Commercial Revolution”
 Edmodo Question
 Assign:
 Read 14.2
 14.2 Review – pg. 374, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: FRIDAY
Thursday, September 3
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Find out the influences of the Italian humanists and how they are depicted in
their art and discover the power struggles the Italian Renaissance had on politics
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Finish notes 14.2
Edmodo Question
Assign:
 Read 14.2
 14.2 Review – pg. 374, identify with significance, 1-5
 Due: FRIDAY
Friday, September 4
o Standard: 9-12.2.12 – Analyze the ideas, events, and global impacts of the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
o Objective: Find out how Renaissance ideas spread across Europe
 Watch CrashCourse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufba_ZcoR0
 Edmodo Objective (why should the renaissance be more controversial)
 Assign:
 Read 14.3
 14.3 Review – pg. 379, identify and significance, 1-5
 Due: WEDNESDAY