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August
Content and Essential Skills
1) Discovery of Early Humans.
Beginnings of Civilization.
Skills
Look at the different tools, domestication of animals and crops of early time.
Migrations of prehistoric peoples throughout the world.
Assessment
Work sheets, guided reading
guided readings, work sheets
Resources
World History the Human experiences
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
1) Beginnings of Civilization
Early Civilizations
Skills
1) Analyze the rise and fall of Empires in the middle East.
2) Explain how ideas spread throughout the Middle East.
Analyze how Aramaen and Phoenician merchants helped spread ideas throughout the Middle East.
Assessment
Work sheets and map activities
Work sheets and tests.
Guided reading
Resources
World History Text
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Continue from September
An overview of the Region
Skills
Continue
Analyze the conflict between the empires: Hittite, Assyrian, Chaldean and Persian.
Assessment
continue tests and worksheets.
Civilizations chart
Resources
World History text.
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Rise of Ancient Greece
Skills
Explain how Geography helped the economy, colonial expansion, and government of the Greek Civilization
Identify the achievements of the ancient Greeks in philosophy, history, and science.
Assessment
Work sheets, tests and questions in text
Resources
World History text
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Ancient Rome and Christianity
Skills
Understand the structure of the Roman Empire and the ways it changed
Assessment
guided reading,
word mapping
Resources
World History text
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Asia Explore the empires of India, China, and Mongol.
The Challenge of New Ideas
The Reformation period.
Skills
Explore the different empires, their religious believes and their contribution to the world.
Explore the Renaissance period.
The beliefs of humanism, the people and the inventions of this period.
Understanding how the church was reformed
Assessment
Work sheets, section review and chapter tests.
Work sheets, time line, section reviews and chapter tests.
Work sheets, time line and section reviews.
Resources
AGS World History
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Chapter 15 The New Science
Chapter 16 The Age of the Kings
Chapter 17 Explorers and Explorations
Skills
Explore the development of Modern Science and the people involved
Understanding the rise of nations and the kings that ruled.
Understanding the Europeans search for New Trade Routes.
Understand when who explore new lands.
Assessment
section reviews, tests
time lines, section reviews and tests
Time line, map activities, section reviews and work sheets.
Resources
AGS World History
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Continue from Feb.
The Age of Reason
Skills
Continue
Analyze the search of Natural laws and the new theories on Government
Understanding what influence Enlightened thinkers had on this period of time.
Assessment
continue
section reviews, work sheets, and chapter tests.
Resources
AGS World History
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Unit 7 Revolution, Reforms and Empires
1) Industrial revolution
2)An Age of Revolution
Skills
Understanding the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850 The growth of the first modern industries.
How did industry brings change and problems
Explore the why the American and French revolutions took place and who were some of the people involved.
Assessment
section reviews, tests and work sheets
section reviews tests and work sheets
Resources
AGS World History
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
3) Reaction, reforms and revolution
Nationalism and Imperialism
Skills
Analyze how and why Nationalism became powerful
Look at the wars for independence in Latin America
Analyze how Nationalism affected Italy and Germany
How did Nationalism help Imperialism?
Look at the effect of Imperialism on Asia.
Assessment
Work sheets
time line
chapter reviews
chapter tests
Unit test
Resources
AGS World History
Optional
