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ContentArea: SocialStudies Course: WorldHistory Grade Level: Ninth R14 The Seven Cs of Learning

Collaboration

Character Communication

Critical Citizenship Thinking

Creativity Curiosity

UnitTitles Lengthof Unit • Classical Civilizations • 2-3weeks • Post-Classical Era • 3-4weeks • Revolutions in Thought • 4-6weeks • The Age of Revolutions • 5-7weeks • Global Conflict • 6-8weeks • The ColdWar and its Global Impact • 4-6weeks • The ContemporaryWorld • 4-6weeks

Region 14 Curriculum: Social Studies Curriculum Grade HS Modern WorldHistory- BOE Adopted:

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Strands Course Level Expectations

Civics • Grasptheunderstandingaroundtheproper balancebetweentherightsof theindividual andthe power of government.

• Knowthatthe internationalcommunity may demonstrate different responsibility for the protection of human right?

• Know what motivates people to question the authority of government. History • Understand how some attempts at resolving conflicts create further problems?

• Understandthechangesthat ledtoglobal conflicts(World War I, World War II)

Economics • Understand that reasons for conflict and competition change over time. • Compare market reforms as well as types of government and their impact on economic

development.

Geography • Understand how famines and natural disasters impact economic and social environments. • Explain how political changes created changes in human development, exploration or

conflict.


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UnitTitle Classical Civilizations Length of Unit 2-3weeks

Inquiry Questions ● How did geography influence the way of life and interaction amongst people? (Engaging & ● Was Athens democratic? Debatable) ● How did Sparta and Athens differ?

● Whatcanwe learnabout values and actions frommythology? ● How should historians view Alexander the Great? ● Was the Roman Republic democratic? ● How didclassical societiescontributetowestern thought andculture?

Standards* DevelopingQuestionsand PlanningInquiry INQ9-12.1,INQ9-12.2 EvaluatingSourcesand UsingEvidence: INQ9-12.6,INQ9-12.7 CommunicatingConclusionsand TakingInformed Action: INQ9-12.10 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST12.16,GEO 12.4,CIV9-12.2

Unit Strands& Concepts

● Comparative governments ● Modern impact of classical societies

Key Vocabulary polis, acropolis, direct democracy, representative democracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy,mythology, philosophy, republic

Standards based on Connecticut Elementaryand SecondarySocial Studies Framework For more information visit: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/board/ssframeworks.pdf


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http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/board/ssframeworks.pdf

UnitTitle Classical Civilizations Length ofUnit 2-3weeks

Critical Content: My studentswill Know…

Key Skills: My studentswill be able to (Do)…

• the factors thatled to the • Apply elements of classical society (ie. individualism) to the beliefs of moderndemise of both early and westernsociety Classical civilizations • Gather information fromprimary sources, interpret it, and use it to organize and

• how the Greeks and Romans write an essay answeringa historicalquestion. contributedtowestern • Compare and contrast the different classical civilizationsthoughtand culture • Interpret and draw conclusions fromboth primary and secondary sources

• learn techniques for taking notes froma text • practiceeffectivereadingand studyskills • Workeffectively both alone and withincooperative groups • Make inferences,create hypotheses and gather evidence to arrive at plausible

conclusions • better understand howhistory is written • interpret various primary sources and infer what they reveal about the society

thatcreated them

Assessments: • Performance Tasks of ClassicalSocieties on Western Culture

Teacher Resources: The DBQ Project Mini-Q’s, Document-Based Question Activities for World History,Region 14 Databases,Local Libraries


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UnitTitle Post Classical Era - The Middle Ages to the Renaissance Length of Unit 3-4weeks

Inquiry Questions ● Why did feudalismdevelop and what was its global impact? (Engaging & ● Could the Bubonic plague or similar biological crises happen today? Debatable) ● How did the Renaissance change man’s view of man?

● How did the Age of Exploration impact the world politically, socially, and economically? ● What impact does technology have on a society?

Standards DevelopingQuestionsand PlanningInquiry INQ9-12.11,INQ 9-12.12,INQ 9-12.15 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST9-12.1,HIST9-12.2,HIST9-12.15,GEO 9-12.2,ECON 9-12.1

Unit Strands& ● Feudalism Concepts ● Black Plague

● Middle Ages ● Renaissance ● Age of Exploration

Key Vocabulary feudalism, clergy, serfdom, knights, nobility, plague, classicism, humanism, secularism, mercantilism,Columbian Exchange, genocide


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UnitTitle Post Classical Era -The Middle Ages to the Renaissance Length of Unit 3-4weeks



• the reasons for the rise of feudalismand its impact • write a piece of historical fiction froma specificin societiesaroundtheworld perspective or role, using primary and secondary

• how the migrations of people led to new states sources for information • how organizedreligionwascloselylinkedwiththe • interpret and draw conclusions fromboth primary and

political structures of the era secondarysources • how the rediscovery of classicismwas instrumental • decide and defend whether or not feudalismwas

in forging the new humanismof the Renaissance. beneficial or detrimental to society • understand the impact of disease on people and • practiceeffectivereadingand studyskills

civilizations • workeffectively both alone and withincooperative • the environmental, social, economic, and political groups

results of the Columbian Exchange and the age of • compare and contrast art fromthe medieval era to the discovery andcolonization Renaissance time period

• The impact of the slave trade • postulatehow we should distributethe moral responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade..

Assessments: • PerformanceBased Tasks, DBQ’s, Collaborative Projects, Debate, Presentation

Teacher Resources: The DBQ Project Mini-Q’s, Document-Based Question Activities for World History,Region 14 Databases


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UnitTitle Revolutions in Thought Length of Unit 4-6weeks

Inquiry Questions(Engaging & Debatable)

● What were the political, economic, and social conditions during the Age of Absolutism? ● What were the ideologies of the Age of Reason? ● How couldideologiesof theEnlightenment cause a revolution?

Standards DevelopingQuestionsand PlanningInquiry INQ9-12.4 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST9-12.6,GEO 9-12.5,ECON 9-12.2,CIV9-12.5,CIV9-12.7


● Age of Absolutism ● Scientific Revolution ● The Enlightenment

Key Vocabulary inquisition, humanism, state of nature, mercantilism, capitalism, limited liability, stocks, conquistadors,social contract,tabula rasa,checksandbalances,natural rights


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UnitTitle Revolutions in Thought Length of Unit 4-6weeks



• how the Enlightenment idealsimpacted both the political andcultural development of the UnitedStates and of modern Europe.

• the impact the Scientific Revolutionand Enlightenment had on political,technological, economic, social,religious, and intellectual thought.

• analyze how the scientific method changed the way people learnedaboutthe naturalworld

• uncover the reasons the scientificrevolutionchangedthewaypeople saw themselves and their place in the universe.

• decide and defend the reasons the Roman Catholic church objectedto the Copernicantheory

• argue the impact of the Enlightenment for the sophes • analyze whyreasonwas so important to Enlightenment thinker • discuss and defend their opinion on how the Enlightenment could

lead to revolutions.

Assessments: • Performance Assessment - Document Based Question, Socratic Seminar Discussion



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] UnitTitle The Age of Revolutions Length of Unit 5-7weeks

Inquiry Questions • What motivates people to question the authority of government? (Engaging & • Was the French Revolutioninevitable? Debatable) • Whatwas revolutionary aboutthe IndustrialRevolution?

• During the era of the Industrial Revolution, how did economic decisions affect changes in populationdistribution?

• Was the IndustrialRevolutiona blessingor a curse? • Did Napoleonupholdtheideologiesof theFrench Revolution? • How does the Communist Manifesto represent a response to the Industrial Revolution? • How are the issues facing Europe during industrialization similar to those facing emerging industrial

economies today? Standards DevelopingQuestionsand PlanningInquiry

INQ9-12.3,CommunicatingConclusionsand TakingInformed Action: INQ9-12.13 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST9-12.3,HIST9-12.11,GEO 9-12.6,GEO 9-12.8,ECON 9-12.3,CIV9-12.1

Unit Strands& • Causesandeffectsof theFrenchandRussian Revolutions Concepts • Cause sand effects of revolutions in Latin America

• Positiveand negativeeffectsof theIndustrial Revolution • Napoleon’s impact on Europe • Comparative Analysis of Industrialization over time

Key Vocabulary socialism, proletariat, nationalism, bourgeoisie, communism, separation of power, natural lawreign of terror, interchangeable parts, suffrage, labor unions, assembly line, capital, corporations, strikesconsumerism, tenements, slums, Social Darwinism, imperialism, coup d’etat


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UnitTitle The Age of Revolutions Length of Unit 5-7weeks



● the reasons thatleads a society to revolution ● evaluate thecauses and effectsof theFrench● the impact Napoleon had on Europe and the future Revolution.

of theworld ● debatewhetherviolenceis ever justifiedin thepursuit ● the short andlong-termimpact/consequences of of societal change.

Industrialization ● analyze the effect Enlightenment ideas had on both the● the impact technology had on migration patterns, French Revolution and revolutions in Latin America.

urbanization,and global tradenetworks ● decideanddefend whetherindustrializationbenefited● the intellectual,social,and politicalreactions to the or hindered theworkingclass.

new industrialera ● compare and contrastthe EuropeanIndustrial● the justificationand causes of imperialism Revolution to that of emerging nations today. ● the legacy imperialismhad on the non-western ● analyzethe ways ordinarycitizenswereable to

world improve working conditions through unions and● the origins, tenets of both capitalismand participation in the democratic process.

communismand their impact on political and ● compare and contrast 18th century imperialismwith economic institutions 16th century colonialism.

Assessments: • Performance Based Assessments, Document Based Writing, Debates, Presentations

Teacher Resources: The DBQ Project Mini-Q’s, Document-Based Question Activities for World History


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UnitTitle Global Conflict Length of Unit 6-8weeks

Inquiry Questions • How did industrialization and nationalismlead to imperialism? (Engaging & • How didreactionstochangeinfluencethecausesandeventsof WorldWarI? Debatable) • Whatrole did changingtechnology contribute to the changingnature of warfare?

• How did the end of World War I lead to the rise of totalitarianism? • To what extent wasWorldWarII a “total war?” • What accounts for the frequent human rights violations in the modern world? • To what extent is the international community responsible for the protection of human rights?

Standards DevelopingQuestionsand PlanningInquiry INQ9-12.5 EvaluatingSourcesand UsingEvidence: INQ9-12.9 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST 9-12.8 HIST9-12.10,GEO 9-12.7,ECON 9-12.4,CIV9-12.3,CIV9-12.4


• World War I • Totalitarianism • World War II • The Holocaust

Key Vocabulary human rights, dictatorships, Fascism, Communism, ethnic cleansing, alliances, militarism, total war,propaganda, Holocaust, appeasement, genocide, totalitarianism, total war, terrorism, globalization,Nazism,refugees, ghettos,blitzkrieg,depression,recession, inflation, stalemate, trench warfare, reparationsself-determination, propaganda


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UnitTitle Global Conflict Length of Unit 6-8weeks



• How nationalism, militarism, and the alliance • decide anddefend whethertheFirst WorldWarwassystemled to World War I. inevitable.

• The roletechnologyhadin changingthenatureof • Evaluate the evidencethat supportsandrefutestheidea that 19thcenturywarfarewiththat ofthe20thcentury. the FirstWorld War was a turningpointinhistory.

• The way economic, political, and social crisescan • Discuss the idea that World War II was simply a continuationpave the way for radical, authoritarian governments. of WorldWarI.

• How andwhygenocidehasoccurredin the20th • Create a graphic organizer that compares and contrastscentury. communismand fascism.

• The causesandresultsof bothWWIandWWII. • Explorethe conditions under which fascismgrew in Europe• the emergence of the concepts of mass politics and and evaluate the likelihood of it emerging in the 21st century.

totalwar • Identify the importance of new technology in changing the• the causes and course oftheColdWar natureof conflict in the 20th century. • the great “isms” of the 19th and 20th centuries: • Evaluate the moral responsibility of those who participated

nationalism, militarism, socialism, romanticism, in, witnessed,andlivedduring theHolocaust.imperialism, communism, liberalism, conservatism, • Evaluate the extent to which World War I and II represented fascism “totalwar”.

Assessments: Performance BasedAssessments, Document BasedQuestions, Open-Ended Question, Debates, Presentations, Socratic Seminars



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UnitTitle Cold War and Its Global Impact Length of Unit 4-6weeks

Inquiry Questions(Engaging & Debatable)

• Did the rise of democratic socialist economies in Western and Northern Europe during the post-World War II era create economic equity, stability, and growth in these countries?

• What factors led to the people’s support of a communist revolution in China? • Did the end of the Cold War indicate Communismhad failed?

Standards EvaluatingSourcesand UsingEvidence: INQ9-12.8 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST9-12.7,HIST9-12.9,HIST9-12.15,CIV9-12.6


• The ColdWar • Communist China • Decolonization, Democratization, and the Legacy of Imperialism

Key Vocabulary containment, iron curtain, deterrence, arms race, detente, non-violence,inflation,recession, proxywar,terrorism


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UnitTitle The Cold War and Its Global Impact Length of Unit 4-6weeks



• therootsof theColdWaranditsglobal impact.

• the impact nuclear weapons had onchanging thebalanceof powerand thenature of warfare in the modern era.

• thegrowingrivalrybetweentheSoviet Union and China.

• the increasing use of terrorismas a tool for political change.

• compare the rise and implementation of communismin the Soviet Union withthat of China

• analyze the causes of decolonization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America,and the lasting impact of imperialismon those nations

• summarize the political, social, and economic impact of theCommunist Partyon thepeopleof China.

• evaluatetheroleandgrowthof technologydurin theColdWar. • identify and evaluate the aims, tactics, and impact of the terrorist

organizationsof the1960s throughthe1980s.

Assessments: Performance BasedAssessments, Document Based Questions, Open-Ended Question



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UnitTitle Contemporary World Length of Unit 4-6Weeks

Inquiry Questions • How did the political, social, and economic factors lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union? (Engaging & • What is modernization and globalization and are they connected? Debatable) • Is modernization advancement?

• How have wars and natural disasters caused human migrations? • Whatpolitical, economic, social and environmental problems will the people of the 21st century

likely face?

Standards CommunicatingConclusionsand TakingInformed Action: INQ9-12.16,INQ9-12.17 ApplyingDisciplinary Conceptsand Tools HIST9-12.12,HIST9-12.13,HIST9-12.17,ECON 9-12.5

Unit Strands& • End of Cold War Concepts • Conflictsin theMiddleEast

• Human Rights • Global Terrorism • Globalization • The Information Age

Key Vocabulary terrorism, globalization, modernization, solidarity, ethnic cleansing, Sunni, Shi’ite


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UnitTitle Contemporary World Length of Unit 4-6Weeks



• the importance of trade in a global economy.

• the environmental challenges of the21st century.

• the reasons the SovietUnioncollapsed.

• thecausesof conflict in theMiddleEast.

• that Nationalismand Globalization oftenconflict.

• how the information revolution has affected their lives.

• evaluate the positive and negative outcomes resulting fromthe collapse of the SovietUnionfor both its people as wellas the internationalcommunity.

• analyzethe short-termand long-termcauses and effectsof thecreationofIsrael.

• evaluate the role nationalismand globalismhave played in world conflicts. • simulate the process and challenges international organizations

experience in defending human rights. • analyze the causes and effects of global terrorism. • uncover the positive and negative impact of globalization. • discuss the political, economic, and social impact of the internet and social

media on people, nations, and movements.

Assessments: Performance BasedAssessments, Document BasedQuestions, Open-Ended Question, Debates, Socratic Seminars, Presentation addressinga global problem.

Teacher Resources: The DBQ Project Mini-Q’s, Document-Based Question Activities for World History


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