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INDIVIDUAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & RESPONSIBILITY
Essential Questions
- How do groups and institutions work to meet individual needs, promote the common good, and address persistent social issues?
- What are the consequences of tensions and cooperation among individuals, groups, and institutions?
- What influences how humans learn, perceive, and grow?
Content
- Renaissance
- Europe
- World War I
- Rise of fascism
- Technology of Government
- Absolutism and absolute monarchs
- Foundations of democracy
- The Enlightenment
- (e.g. Rousseau, Montesquieu, John Locke, Voltaire)
- Revolution
- (e.g. English, Glorious, French, Napoleonic Europe, Russian)
- Reformation
- Analyze patterns of political and economic change
TIME, CONTINUITY & CHANGE
Essential Questions
- What sequences of events and turning points are important in history? Why are they important?
- Why is the past important to us today?
- How do historical perspectives reflect varying points of view and invasion contemporary ideas and influence actions?
Content
- Literature
- Reflects the culture of a civilization at various points in time
- Communication systems
- Differ from culture to culture and evolve over time
- Organize historical thought
- *Chronological frameworks
- *Construct accurate timelines
- Analyze patterns of political and economic change
Resources
- Dante, Machiavelli, Chaucer, Erasmus, and Shakespeare, as well as Japanese and Chinese poetry styles, and epic poems
- Chinese calligraphy, alphabet, printing press, telegraph, telephone
- Construct accurate timelines placing significant ideas, institutions, people, and events in appropriate time sequences
PEOPLE, PLACES & ENVIRONMENT
Essential Questions
- What is the effect of geography on civilization?
- How have relationships humans forged with places changed over time?
- How are global regions defined by physical and human characteristics?
Content
- Europe
- Africa
- Asia (China, Japan, India)
- Middle East
- Americas
- Global
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Essential Questions
- What are the universal links between past and present culture?
- How do developing societies respond to social and environmental determinants?
Content
Africa
- Political/cultural borders
- Colonization/imperialism (e.g. Berlin Conference, Triangual trade)
- Cultural diffusion
- Linguistics (e.g. Bantu language)
China
- Dynasties and empires (e.g. Ming, Mongol)
- Commercial colonization
- Trade systems
- Belief systems (e.g. Confucianism)
Japan
- Feudal systems
India
- Colonization/imperialism
- Belief systems (e.g. Hinduism)
Middle East
- Emergence of belief systems and impact on cultural relations
Americas
- Belief systems
- Cultural development
- Economic development
GLOBAL ECONOMICS
Essential Questions
- How do economic systems shape society and influence interactions between societies and cultures?
- How do markets develop and work?
Content
- Europe
- Industrial Revolution
- Means of production-natural resources
- Economic theorists (e.g. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Thomas Mathus)
- Supply and demand
- European mercantilism
- World Trade
- Money
POWER, AUTHORITY, GOVERNANCE
Essential Questions
- What is the relationship and obligation of the government and its citizens?
- What conflicts exist among fundamental principles and values of constitutional democracy?
- What is the proper scope and limits of authority?
Content
- Europe
- Nationalism
- Rise and fall of empires (e.g. Ottoman, Holy Roman, Austrian, Bolshevik Revolution, Czarist Russia)
- Building of nations (e.g. Germany, Italy, France, Russia)
- Realignment of world powers and the role Europe plays within it
- Primary source documents