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Course Description
World History is a survey course required for high school graduation in North Carolina. During the 2016-2017 school year, Wakefield High School will only offer World History as an honors-level course.
World History explores human experience from ancient times to the present. Successful students will understand how historical forces have shaped our world and continue to influence our present and future. Due to both the quantity and content of the curriculum, some students find World History to be the most challenging class of their freshman year.
I am pleased to serve as your guide providing you structure, organization, and expertise. However, your success depends on you! Students who read carefully, complete assignments thoughtfully, and prepare adequately for tests learn more and feel greater pride of accomplishment.
Goals
Upon successful completion of this course you will have learned to:
Rules and Expectations
Students are expected to abide by all class rules.
Grading Information
Student grades will be determined through tests, projects, homework, and quizzes. See here for additional information.
Text
McDougal Littel World History: Patterns of Interaction 2008 Ed.
An online version of the text is available here.
World History is a survey course required for high school graduation in North Carolina. During the 2016-2017 school year, Wakefield High School will only offer World History as an honors-level course.
World History explores human experience from ancient times to the present. Successful students will understand how historical forces have shaped our world and continue to influence our present and future. Due to both the quantity and content of the curriculum, some students find World History to be the most challenging class of their freshman year.
I am pleased to serve as your guide providing you structure, organization, and expertise. However, your success depends on you! Students who read carefully, complete assignments thoughtfully, and prepare adequately for tests learn more and feel greater pride of accomplishment.
Goals
Upon successful completion of this course you will have learned to:
- Construct a mental map of Earth in order to understand the role of geography in human history.
- Create a mental timeline in order to know the basic chronology of major events in human history.
- Actively read primary and secondary sources in order to understand the unique perspectives of people in space and time.
- Construct historical arguments supported by evidence.
- Develop research and other study skills
Rules and Expectations
Students are expected to abide by all class rules.
Grading Information
Student grades will be determined through tests, projects, homework, and quizzes. See here for additional information.
Text
McDougal Littel World History: Patterns of Interaction 2008 Ed.
An online version of the text is available here.
UNIT 1: ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS traces the development and decline of early complex societies of the ancient Near East, India, and China.
UNIT 2: CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS traces the development and decline of classical Greece and Rome to c. 500 AD.
UNIT 3: EMPIRES OF FAITH examines the medieval Christian and Muslim worlds from c. 500 AD to c. 1500 AD.
UNIT 4: NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS surveys complex ancient and medieval societies in the of Asia, Africa, and the Americas to c. 1500 AD.
Unit 5: Early Modern Europe assesses the global impact of the Renaissance, Age of Exploration, Reformation, and development of Absolute Monarchy from c. 1300 AD to c. 1700 AD.
UNIT 6: THE AGE OF REASON evaluates the impact of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment from c. 1600 AD to c. 1815 AD and the course and consequences of the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Latin American revolutions.
UNIT 7: THE INDUSTRIAL ERA explains industrialization, urbanization, the development of political ideologies, and the emergence of modern mass society during the 1800s.
UNIT 8: THE NEW IMPERIALISM explores Western expansion and competition for global dominance from c. 1870 to c. 1920 climaxing in the catastrophic First World War.
UNIT 9: TOTALITARIANISM investigates the establishment of brutal dictatorships in Soviet Russia, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany and the causes and course of the Second World War from c. 1920 to c. 1945. It also summarizes the ideological conflict between the Western democratic, capitalist world and Communist worlds during the Cold War from c. 1945 to c. 1991.
UNIT 10: CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS investigates developments of global importance from c. 1990 to present, particularly in South Asia, China, Africa, and the Middle East.
Final Exam Review Guide
UNIT 2: CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS traces the development and decline of classical Greece and Rome to c. 500 AD.
UNIT 3: EMPIRES OF FAITH examines the medieval Christian and Muslim worlds from c. 500 AD to c. 1500 AD.
UNIT 4: NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS surveys complex ancient and medieval societies in the of Asia, Africa, and the Americas to c. 1500 AD.
Unit 5: Early Modern Europe assesses the global impact of the Renaissance, Age of Exploration, Reformation, and development of Absolute Monarchy from c. 1300 AD to c. 1700 AD.
UNIT 6: THE AGE OF REASON evaluates the impact of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment from c. 1600 AD to c. 1815 AD and the course and consequences of the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Latin American revolutions.
UNIT 7: THE INDUSTRIAL ERA explains industrialization, urbanization, the development of political ideologies, and the emergence of modern mass society during the 1800s.
UNIT 8: THE NEW IMPERIALISM explores Western expansion and competition for global dominance from c. 1870 to c. 1920 climaxing in the catastrophic First World War.
UNIT 9: TOTALITARIANISM investigates the establishment of brutal dictatorships in Soviet Russia, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany and the causes and course of the Second World War from c. 1920 to c. 1945. It also summarizes the ideological conflict between the Western democratic, capitalist world and Communist worlds during the Cold War from c. 1945 to c. 1991.
UNIT 10: CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS investigates developments of global importance from c. 1990 to present, particularly in South Asia, China, Africa, and the Middle East.
Final Exam Review Guide