| Trimester 1: Early Civilizations |
| Required: | |||
| · | Geography Handbook. | ||
| · | Tools of the Historian | ||
| · | What is a civilization? (Comparing early civilizations): | ||
| o | Early Humans and Mesopotamia– Chapter 1 | |
| o | First Americans (Mayans, Aztecs and Incas) – Chapter 16 (Skip North America Sections) | |
| o | Egypt – Chapter 2, Sections 1 - 3 | |
| · | Kush – Chapter 2, Section 4 | ||
| · | Israelites – Chapter 3 | ||
| Trimester 2: Chinese Civilizations | ||
| Required: | |||
| Legacies of Ancient Civilizations: | |||
| · | Ancient China – Ch. 7 | |
| · | China: The Middle Ages – Ch. 12, Sections 1 and 2 | |
| Optional: | |||
| · | India – Chapter 6 | |
| · | Christianity – Chapter 10 | |
| · | Islam – Chapter 11 | |
| · | Greece – Chapters 4 & 5 | |
| · | Rome Chapters 8 & 9, Sections 1 and 2 | |
| · | Fall of Rome/Introduction to Medieval Europe | |
| · | Medieval Europe – Chapter 15 | |
| · | Medieval Japan – Chapter 14 | |
| · | Medieval Africa – Chapter 13 | |
| · | How does the environment/physical geography affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? | ||
| · | How does the relationship between civilizations affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? | ||
| · | How does the movement of people, goods, and ideas affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? | ||
| · | How do different forms of government affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? | ||
| · | How does technology affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? | ||
| · | Which new technologies from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? | ||
| · | Which individuals and movements from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? | ||
| · | Which cultural groups from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? | ||
| · | Which historical events from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? | ||
| · | Which laws and government systems from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? |
| Unit 1 | Comparing Early Civilizations
Required: Neolithic, Mesopotamia, First Americans, Egypt Optional: Kush, Israelites | Calendar:
Trimester 1 |
| Resources: (What resources are needed for instruction?) |
| Enduring Understandings: (What enduring understandings are desired? OR To meet the standards, students will need to understand that…) |
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Students will understand that… 1. Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history. 2. Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. |
| Essential Questions: (What essential questions will be considered? OR To understand, students will need to consider such questions as…) |
| Enduring Understanding #1: Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history.
Required Essential Questions: · How does the environment/physical geography affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do inventions and advances (technology) affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do social classes impact the development, sustainability and collapse of a civilization? (Mesopotamia, Egypt, First Americans) Optional Essential Questions: · How does the relationship between civilizations affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How does the movement of people, goods, and ideas affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do different forms of government affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? Enduring Understanding #2: Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. Required Essential Questions: · Which inventions and advances (technology) from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? · Which laws and government systems from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? (Hammurabi’s Code, Egypt) |
| Unit 1
| Comparing Early Civilizations
Required: Neolithic, Mesopotamia, First Americans, Egypt Optional: Kush, Israelites | Calendar:
Trimester 1 |
| Knowledge and Skills: (What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? OR To understand, students will need to…) |
| Knowledge - Students will know…
Definition of Civilization. Shift from nomadic lifestyle to establishing villages. (Farming replaced hunting and gathering.) Compare different Early Civilizations based upon: Environmental Adaptations/Advances: Domestication Farming · Irrigation · Plow Religion: Polytheism Deities Economy (Define): Trade of goods · Trade Routes · Jobs Specialization Government Structure: · Empire · Dynasty · Province · City State · Villages · Laws (Codes) Class Division Leaders · Pharaoh · God King · Kings · Emperors Technology (inventions and advances) Writing · Hieroglyphics · Cuneiform · Papyrus · Literature Astronomy · Calendar Number Systems Weapons Architecture · Pyramid · Ziggurat Transportation · Wheel · Roads · River · Sail Boat |
| Unit 1
| Comparing Early Civilizations
Required: Neolithic, Mesopotamia, First Americans, Egypt Optional: Kush, Israelites | Calendar:
Trimester 1 |
| Established Goals: (What State GLE’s will be addressed in this unit?) |
| Enduring Understanding #1: Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history.
Civics: GLE 1.2.3 Understands a variety of forms of government from the past or present. GLE 1.3.1 Analyzes how societies have interacted with one another in the past or present. GLE 1.4.1 Understands the historical origins of civic involvement. Economics: GLE 2.2.1 Understands the production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources in societies from the past or in the present. GLE 2.2.2 Understands how the forces of supply and demand have affected international trade in the past or present. GLE 2.3.1 Understands the role of government in the world’s economies through the creation of money, taxation, and spending in the past or present. GLE 2.4.1 Understands the distribution of wealth and sustainability of resources in the world in the past or present. Geography: GLE 3.2.1 Understands and analyzes how the environment has affected people and how people have affected the environment in the past or present. History: GLE 4.1.2 Understands how the rise of civilizations defines eras in ancient history by explaining and comparing the rise of civilizations from 8000 BCE to 200 CE on at least two continents. GLE 4.2.1 Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history. GLE 4.2.3 Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilization have impacted world history. Enduring Understanding #2: Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. History: GLE 4.2.1 Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history. GLE 4.2.2 Understands and analyzes how cultures and cultural groups in ancient civilizations contributed to world history. GLE 4.2.3 Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilization have impacted world history. GLE 4.4.1 Analyzes how an event in ancient history helps us to understand a current issue. |
| Unit 2 | Chinese Civilization
Required: Ancient China, Middle Ages China Optional: India, Christianity, Islam | Calendar:
Trimester 2 |
| Resources: (What resources are needed for instruction?) |
| Required Resources we have:
China: Chapter 7 Chapter 12, Sections 1 and 2 | Optional Resources we have:
Chapter 6, 10, 11 Resources we need: Recommended: Possible Economic Simulation United Steaming Videos http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/ |
| Enduring Understandings: (What enduring understandings are desired? OR To meet the standards, students will need to understand that…) |
|
Students will understand that… 1. Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history. 2. Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. |
| Essential Questions: (What essential questions will be considered? OR To understand, students will need to consider such questions as…) |
| Enduring Understanding #1 Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history.
Required Essential Questions: · How does the movement of people, goods, and ideas affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do inventions and advances (technology) affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? Optional Essential Questions: · How does the environment/physical geography affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · Which individuals and groups affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do social classes impact the development, sustainability and collapse of a civilization? · How does the relationship between civilizations affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? Enduring Understanding #2 Legacies left by early civilizations have impacted our world today. Required Essential Questions: · Which laws and government systems from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? · Which cultural innovations (philosophy, art, literature) from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? · Which inventions and advances (technologies) from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? |
| Unit 2 | Chinese Civilization
Required: Ancient China, Middle Ages China Optional: India, Christianity, Islam | Calendar:
Trimester 2 |
| Knowledge and Skills: (What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? OR To understand, students will need to…) |
| Knowledge - Students will know…
Civilization Colonization Technology (inventions and advances): Architecture Great Wall of China Agriculture · Irrigation · Plows · Terraces · Canal Paper Movable Type Weapons · Gun Powder Medicine Compass Culture and Art: Philosophies · Confucianism · Daoism · Legalism Writing · Chinese Pictographs · Chinese Idea graphs · Calligraphy Chinese Art · Bronze Works · Weaving · Carving · Porcelain Painting Literature · Chinese Poetry Government: Dynasty Bureaucracy Class System · Aristocrats o Kings o War Lords · Peasant Farmers · Merchants Mandate of Heaven Local States Central Government (Qin) · Provinces · Counties · Uniform Laws Civil Service (Han) Economy (define) Currency Trade and manufacturing New Inventions (Han) Silk Road Grand Canal Paper Money (China) Religion: Chinese Gods, Spirits and Ancestors · Oracle Spread of Buddhism |
| Unit 2 | Chinese Civilization
Required: Ancient China, Middle Ages China Optional: India, Christianity, Islam | Calendar:
Trimester 2 |
| Established Goals: (What State GLE’s will be addressed in this unit?) |
| Enduring Understanding #1: Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history.
Civics: GLE 1.2.3 Understands a variety of forms of government from the past or present. GLE 1.3.1 Analyzes how societies have interacted with one another in the past or present. GLE 1.4.1 Understands the historical origins of civic involvement. Economics: GLE 2.2.1 Understands the production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources in societies from the past or in the present. GLE 2.2.2 Understands how the forces of supply and demand have affected international trade in the past or present. GLE 2.3.1 Understands the role of government in the world’s economies through the creation of money, taxation, and spending in the past or present. GLE 2.4.1 Understands the distribution of wealth and sustainability of resources in the world in the past or present. Geography: GLE 3.2.1 Understands and analyzes how the environment has affected people and how people have affected the environment in the past or present. History: GLE 4.1.2 Understands how the rise of civilizations defines eras in ancient history by explaining and comparing the rise of civilizations from 8000 BCE to 200 CE on at least two continents. GLE 4.2.1 Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history. GLE 4.2.3 Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilization have impacted world history. Enduring Understanding #2: Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. History: GLE 4.2.1 Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history. GLE 4.2.2 Understands and analyzes how cultures and cultural groups in ancient civilizations contributed to world history. GLE 4.2.3 Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilization have impacted world history. GLE 4.4.1 Analyzes how an event in ancient history helps us to understand a current issue. |
| Unit 3 | Greek and Roman Civilizations
Required: Rome/Introduction to Medieval Europe Optional: In-depth Medieval Europe, Medieval Japan, Medieval Africa | Calendar:
Trimester 3 |
| Resources: (What resources are needed for instruction?) |
| Enduring Understandings: (What enduring understandings are desired? OR To meet the standards, students will need to understand that…) |
|
Students will understand that… 1. Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history. 2. Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. |
| Essential Questions: (What essential questions will be considered? OR To understand, students will need to consider such questions as…) |
| Enduring Understanding #1 Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history.
Required Essential Questions: · How does the movement of people, goods, and ideas affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do different forms of government affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? Optional Essential Questions: · How do inventions and advances (technology) affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How does the environment/physical geography affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · Which individuals and groups affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? · How do social classes impact the development, sustainability and collapse of a civilization? · How does the relationship between civilizations affect the development, sustainability, and collapse of a civilization? Enduring Understanding #2 Legacies left by early civilizations have impacted our world today. Required Essential Questions: · Which laws and government systems from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? · Which inventions and advances (technologies) from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? · Which cultural innovations (philosophy, art, literature) from the ancient world have had the biggest impact on the world today? |
| Unit 3 | Greek and Roman Civilizations
Required: Rome/Introduction to Medieval Europe Optional: In-depth Medieval Europe, Medieval Japan, Medieval Africa | Calendar:
Trimester 3 |
| Knowledge and Skills: (What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? OR To understand, students will need to…) |
| Knowledge - Students will know…
Definition of Civilization. Culture and Art Greece: Philosophers · Socrates (questioning) · Aristotle (government) Mythology Literature · Fables (Aesop) · Epics · Greek Drama · Poetry (Homer) Athletics · Olympics Rome: Latin (Language roots) Literature · Satire · Odes Athletics · Gladiators Colosseum Religion Greece: Greek Gods and Goddesses · Oracle Rome: Roman Gods and Goddesses Constantine the Great Economy (Define) Greece : Currency Trade and manufacturing Rome: Currency Trade Transportation Government Greece: Citizenship · Polis Oligarchy Democracy · Direct · Representative Rome: Citizenship · Legions (Roman Legionary) Republic · Veto · Senate · 12 Tables Dictator Reform Class Divisions · Patricians · Plebeian Technology (inventions and advances) Greece: Astronomy · Earth is round (Eratosthenes) Geometry · Euclid · Pythagoras · Archimedes Architecture Columns Rome: Astronomy · Ptolemy Architecture · Arches · Domes Julian/Gregorian Calendar Aqueduct Consequences of the Fall of Rome Eastern Roman Empire (later Byzantine Empire)/Western Roman Empire (Germanic Kingdoms - Feudalism) |
| Unit 3 | Greek and Roman Civilizations
Required: Rome/Introduction to Medieval Europe Optional: In-depth Medieval Europe, Medieval Japan, Medieval Africa | Calendar:
Trimester 3 |
| Established Goals: (What State GLE’s will be addressed in this unit?) |
| Enduring Understanding #1: Civilizations develop, flourish, and collapse throughout history.
Civics: GLE 1.2.3 Understands a variety of forms of government from the past or present. GLE 1.3.1 Analyzes how societies have interacted with one another in the past or present. GLE 1.4.1 Understands the historical origins of civic involvement. Economics: GLE 2.2.1 Understands the production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources in societies from the past or in the present. GLE 2.2.2 Understands how the forces of supply and demand have affected international trade in the past or present. GLE 2.3.1 Understands the role of government in the world’s economies through the creation of money, taxation, and spending in the past or present. GLE 2.4.1 Understands the distribution of wealth and sustainability of resources in the world in the past or present. Geography: GLE 3.2.1 Understands and analyzes how the environment has affected people and how people have affected the environment in the past or present. History: GLE 4.1.2 Understands how the rise of civilizations defines eras in ancient history by explaining and comparing the rise of civilizations from 8000 BCE to 200 CE on at least two continents. GLE 4.2.1 Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history. GLE 4.2.3 Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilization have impacted world history. Enduring Understanding #2: Legacies left by ancient civilizations have impacted our world today. History: GLE 4.2.1 Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history. GLE 4.2.2 Understands and analyzes how cultures and cultural groups in ancient civilizations contributed to world history. GLE 4.2.3 Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilization have impacted world history. GLE 4.4.1 Analyzes how an event in ancient history helps us to understand a current issue. |