World History 10th Grade

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    INDIVIDUAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & RESPONSIBILITY

    Essential Questions

    1. How do groups and institutions work to meet individual needs, promote the common good, and address persistent social issues?
    2. What are the consequences of tensions and cooperation among individuals, groups, and institutions?
    3. 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

    1. What sequences of events and turning points are important in history? Why are they important?
    2. Why is the past important to us today?
    3. 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

    1. What is the effect of geography on civilization?
    2. How have relationships humans forged with places changed over time?
    3. 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

    1. What are the universal links between past and present culture?
    2. 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

    1. How do economic systems shape society and influence interactions between societies and cultures?
    2. 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

    1. What is the relationship and obligation of the government and its citizens?
    2. What conflicts exist among fundamental principles and values of constitutional democracy?
    3. 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

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