World History
Term 2
2015-2016
Date
November 2nd/3rd
Lessons & Assignments
Topic: Research Paper
November 4th/5th
Class Activity
Assign term research paper and explain how it is to done.
Topic: The Byzantine Empire (1) Justinian Code (2) Hagia Sophia
(3) Constantinople (4) The Great Schism (5) Roman Catholicism
(6) Eastern Orthodoxy (7) icons (8) patriarch
November 6th/9th
Text: World History, pgs. 301-306
Topic: The Russian Empire (1) Kiev (2) Vladimir (3) The Mongol
Invasions (4) Ivan III (5) Czar
Text: World History, pgs. 307-313
Quiz #1
November 10th/11th
November 12th/13th
November
16th/17th
Homework Due
Study Guide-Chapter 10
Topic: The Mongols (1) Clans (2) Genghis Khan (3) Khanates (4) Pax
Mongolia (5) Marco Polo (6) Yuan Dynasty
Text: World History, pgs. 330-338
Topic: Feudal Japan (1) Shinto (2) Japanese Buddhism (3) Samurai
Warriors (4) Shogun
Text: World History, pgs. 339-343
Topic: European Middle Ages (1) Charlemagne (2) Vikings
(3) European Feudalism (4) Lords (5) Serfs (6) Manor Life (7) Tithe
Text: World History, pgs. 353-369
Quiz #2
November 18th/19th
Homework Due
Study Guide-Chapter 11 & 12
Topic: The Catholic Church (1) clergy (2) canon law v. common law
(3) Holy Roman Empire (4) lay investiture (5) Concordat of Worms
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Text: World History, pgs. 370-373
Topic: Western Europe (1) simony (2) The Curia (3) Francis of
Assisi (4) Gothic (5) The Crusades (6) Pope Urban II (7) Saladin (8)
The Children’s Crusade
Text: World History, pgs. 379-385
November 24th/30th
CRQ Quiz-The Crusades
Topic: England and France (1) William the Conqueror (2) common
law (3) Magna Carta (4) parliament (5) Estates-General
December 1st/2nd
Text: World History, pgs. 393-397
Topic: Black Death (1) Great Schism (2) bubonic plague (3) Jan Hus
(4) John Wycliffe (5) Hundred Years’ War (6) Joan of Arc
December
3rd/4th
Text: World History, pgs. 398-403
Unit 4-Connecting Hemispheres, 900-1800
Topic: Societies and Empires of Africa (1) Muslim states (2) West
Africa (3) gold-salt trade (4) Mali (5) Mansa Musa (6) Ibn Battuta
Text: World History, pgs. 409-419
Quiz #3
December 7th/8th
December
9th/10th
Homework Due
Study Guides-Chapter 13 & 14
Topic: Southern and Eastern Africa (1) Swahili (2) Great Zimbabwe
(3) Mutapa Empire (4) Portuguese Conquest
Text: World History, pgs. 422-427
Topic: Central American Civilizations (1) The Maya (2) human
sacrifice (3) glyphs (4) The Ball Game (5) The Aztecs
(6) Quetzalcoatl (7) Triple Alliance (8) Montezuma
Text: World History, pgs. 441-458
Class Activity
Hands-on-History: The Maya: What was Their Most Remarkable
Achievement?”
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December 11th/14th
December
15th/16th
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Topic: South American Civilization (1) The Inca (2) Pachacuti (3)
ayllu (4) quipu (5) mita (6) Machu Picchu (7) Incan Mummies
Text: World History, pgs. 459-465
Topic: The Renaissance (1) humanism (2)The Medici’s (3)
perspective (4) banking (5) vernacular (6) secular
Text: World History, pgs. 471-479
Quiz #4
December 17th/18th
January 4th/5th
Homework Due
Study Guides-Chapter 15&16
Topic: Computer Lab Research Paper
Topic: The Northern Renaissance (1) utopia (2) Thomas More
(3) William Shakespeare (4) Johann Gutenberg (5) Christian
Humanism
Text: World History, pgs. 480-487
January 6th/7th
January 8th/11th
January 12th/13th
January 14th/15th
Homework Due
Research Paper
Topic: Renaissance Art and Philosophy (1)
Topic: The Reformation (1) Martin Luther (2) indulgence (3) Pope
Leo X (4) Lutherans (5) The Peasants Revolt (6) Peace of Augsburg
Text: World History, pgs. 488-498
Supplemental Reading: The 95 Theses
Topic: The Catholic Reformation (1) Ignatius of Loyola (2) Jesuits
(3) Council of Trent (4) The Inquisition
Text: World History, pgs. 498-501
Term Final- CRQ Quiz-The Printing Press
Homework Due
Study Guides-Chapter 17
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Unit Activities
Lectures and class discussions: Students will participate in class lectures and discussions
which will take place on a daily basis. Reading quizzes will be indicated on the syllabus and
will include information from study guides, lectures, and class discussions.
Study Guides: Students will be given key vocabulary terms and questions that allow them
to read in the textbook more thoroughly.
Historical Corner: Students will respond in essay form to the arguments made by the
author in a written primary or secondary source, map, artifact, poem, government
document, or work of art.
Historical Simulations: Students will participate in historical simulations that include
primary and secondary sources that will help them make real life connections to the
material studied during the unit.
Primary and Secondary Source Analysis: Students will analyze primary and secondary
sources using a Primary Document Analysis Sheet on which they will identify, analyze, and
evaluate each of the sources.
Opposing Viewpoints: Each unit you will be provided with opposing viewpoints
expressed in either primary or secondary source documents and in writing must determine
the following:
1. Thesis-In complete sentence explain the main argument of each author.
2. Evidence-Using the authors supporting evidence analyze whether they are
logically interpreted by the authors. Do they clearly support their thesis?
Provide examples of why and how.
3. Critical Analysis: What do the sources add to your own understanding of the
topic? What points are strongly made and well documented?
4. Final Analysis: Which of the sources makes the most convincing case and why?
This will be expressed in a five to six sentence paragraph without the use of 1st
or 2nd person pronouns.
You Be the Judge: Read and analyze primary source documents on the same topic then
compare and contrast the arguments expressed in the documents by using supporting
evidence. Determine which author made the better case and explain why and in a 250-300
word essay.
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Hands-on-History: Students will read and study articles written by professional
historians, identify and discuss the arguments made by the author and evaluating the
evidence presented.
DBQ Deconstruction: Students will work in groups reading from the sources and debate
the questions posed by the DBQ. They will then write their own essay answering the
question posed.
History in the Making: Students will read how the issues they are studying were covered
by American history textbooks in the past. They will then summarize in a four to five
sentence paragraph each era or time period reflected in the reading. Then in a final five to
six sentence paragraph assess the extent to which earlier interpretations differ from that
presented in their text.
Six Degrees of Separation: Students will be provided with two events spanning decades,
but related by their theme. They will select six events in chronological order that link the
first event in the series with the last. Students will write the name of each selected event,
and use their research and knowledge of the time period to create an argument to support
the events selected. Students must emphasize both cause and effect and/or demonstrate
continuity or change over time in their linking.