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World Civilizations Syllabus

Diana LeBaron Bass

NUAMES Early College High School

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-Anthony J. D'Angelo

Consultation Periods

• Monday through Friday from 2:30 – 3:00 p.m.

• Students and parents are welcome to schedule appointments as needed.

Course Overview

The World Civilizations course is a comprehensive and demanding thematic study of the human experience from 8000 B.C.E. to the present. The course is designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts including interactions over time. The emphasis will always be on the big picture, using a global perspective to look at the ways in which people and societies have been connected through time.

Students will cultivate writing, critical reasoning, effective reading, collaborative, and analytical skills.

There are high expectations for those enrolled in the course. Self discipline and doing one’s best are imperative.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.  –

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Course Objectives:

Students will

• Perform well in the course, with a final grade of C or higher

• Improve expository writing skills

• Build understanding of principle themes, events, and figures in World History

• Analyze and organize data and historical evidence

• Identify and analyze point-of-view in historical sources

• Demonstrate higher-order thinking skills within a rigorous format

• Cultivate skills that will help them in other educational pursuits

Recurrent Themes in World History

▪ Interaction Between Humans and the Environment

▪ Development and Interaction of Cultures

▪ State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict

▪ Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems

▪ Development and Transformation of Social Structures

Historical Thinking Required in this Course:

• Ability to connect historical events to broader regional, national and global phenomena

• Ability to interpret and synthesize diverse interpretations of historical evidence

Course Format:

Units provide students with a variety of learning activities, including the following:

➢ Interpret timelines

➢ Demonstrate insight, prior knowledge and analysis in journal entries

➢ Identify the significance of historical figures, events, literary works, and treaties

➢ Respond to questions that require comprehension and application of ideas

➢ Read and respond to ideas in primary and secondary source material

➢ Go beyond text reading to access authentic manuscripts, participate in virtual museum tours, and watch appropriate films

➢ Organize and defend ideas with visual representations, such as graphic organizers

➢ Write thematic and document-based essays

➢ Participate in threaded discussions about course content

➢ Engage in historical simulations such the trial of Genghis Kahn, an Enlightenment Salon, and serve as a member of one of three estates during the French Revolution.

Course Policies/Procedures:

In order to maintain an effective learning atmosphere, the following procedures are implemented and posted in the classroom:

1) Be CONSIDERATE to and RESPECTFUL of the teacher and classmates

2) Be AWAKE, ALERT, ON TIME, AND POSITIVE

3) Take care of classroom property

4) FOCUS on history, not work from other classes

5) Electronic devices should be turned off and out of sight (unless used for class-related work)

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Citizenship

• Students begin each quarter with 25/25 citizenship points.

• Students gain citizenship points for exceptionally good behavior, following course policies, and contributing to a positive classroom climate.

• Students lose citizenship points for violating course policies/procedures, being tardy to class, or having unexcused absences. Points can also be deducted for excessive excused tardies or excused absences.

• Final citizenship grades will be assigned accordingly:

o 25 + points = Honors (H)

o 16-24 points = Satisfactory (S)

o 11-15 points = Needs Improvement (N)

o 0-10 points = Unsatisfactory (U)

Additional Course Expectations

• Students are expected to dress appropriately and modestly for class. Ms. Bass has “lovely ensembles” that students may be asked to sport if distracting and revealing clothing is worn.

• Students are expected to work cooperatively with groups. If a student chooses to disrupt or fail to participate in the group, he or she will be asked to work alone.

Grading Policies

• All assignments are based on a 100% mastery scale.

• Assignments include but are not limited to:

o Log entries

o Portfolios

o Essays

o Video Essays

o Presentations

o Simulations

o Debates

o Discussions

o Current Event Assignments

o Reader’s Journals

• Everything created in class or for homework should be saved as it will appear in the term portfolio.

• NO LATE ASSIGNMENT IS ACCEPTED PER TERM. Assignments will be accepted on the due date and in the class in which a student is enrolled. Homework is due at the beginning of class. If an assignment is e-mailed after class, it is considered late.

• Exams and quizzes need to be made up by the Friday after the student’s absence.

• Students are welcome to discuss their grades before or after school.

• If a student has an excused absence, she has as many days as she was absent to makeup all missed work. Thus, if Becca was absent four days, she has four school days to make up work.

• Consult the class website for daily activities and handouts (Absent Log handout):

Grading Scale

• Grades are not rounded up in this class.

• Grades are only changed when the teacher has made an error.

|93-100% |A |73-76% |C |

|90-92% |A- |70-72% |C- |

|87-89% |B+ |67-69% |D+ |

|83-89% |B |63-66% |D |

|80-82% |B- |60-62% |D- |

|77-79& |C+ | | |

Cheating/Plagiarism

• In brief, do NOT do this. Cheating is any act that “defrauds, deceives or employs trickery” in order to obtain credit for work which has not been completed. Plagiarism is the “act of passing off the ideas of another as one’s own work.” Anyone who cheats will receive a failing grade on the said assignment, a call or letter home, and points deducted from citizenship.

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Moo-Lah:

• Moo-lah can be earned through incredible participation, leadership in group activities, going the extra mile, or through various classroom activities. Each moo-lah counts for two points extra credit.

Extra Credit

• Extra credit is extended to all students who have a Citizenship H or S.

• Extra Credit can improve a student’s grade by a maximum of one-half grade.

• Extra credit options will be provided throughout each term.

• Extra credit is extended to all students who have a D- or higher in the class.

Resources

• Course Textbook (classroom copies only)

• Primary and Secondary Source Readings

Required Materials

• Three-ring binder or folder for portfolio

• Lined paper

• Writing utensils

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Academic schedule

(thematic perspective)

UNIT I: Foundations

Major Topics:

• Sources in history

• Navigating timelines and maps

• The nature of historical inquiry and research

• The strengths and weaknesses of primary, secondary and tertiary sources

• Neolithic Revolution and formation of early cities

• Basic features of early civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Kush, Indus, Shang, Mesoamerica, and Andean

• The Modern Middle East

• Writing the Five-paragraph essay in history

Sources

• Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Readings

• Richard E. Leakey, The Making of Mankind

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

• The Judgments of Hammurabi

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Writing Workshop: Students will be instructed on how to write a strong five-paragraph essay for history classes and beyond.

• Short Primary Source Analysis: Students will identify the point of view, intended purpose, audience, and historical context of the source.

• Discussion on why people would be willing to give up a nomadic lifestyle for a more settled existence.

• Students will develop archeological digs for the early human groups.

• Analysis of the Lascaux Caves

• Students will design learning centers for the early river civilizations

• Modern Middle East stereotype examples, geography assignment, and country presentations

UNIT TWO: Major World Belief Systems

Topics for Overview:

• The Development and Codification of Religions and Cultural Traditions

• Major Belief systems: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and Daoism, polytheism, animism and shamanism

Sources

• Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Readings or Reader

• The Buddha, Setting in Motion The Wheel of The Law, The Human Record

• Laozi, The Classic of the Way and Virtue

• Confucius, The Analects

• The Sermon on the Mount

• The Qur’an on Allah and His Expectations of Humankind

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Writing a Comparison Essay on the origins, beliefs and practices and diffusion of three major world religious traditions

• Students will evaluate the causes and consequences of the decline of the Han, Roman and Gupta empires.

• Dinner Table Assignment Project on the major religions and philosophies of this time period: Students will research the origins, beliefs and practices, diffusion, and describe the continuity and changes of the beliefs over time.

• Religion Panel

UNIT THREE: Classical Contributions

Topics for Overview:

• Major political, artistic, philosophical, technological and trading developments in China, India and the Mediterranean

• Political Developments in Classical Civilizations

• Social and Gender Structures in Classical Civilizations

• Trading Patterns among Classical Civilizations

Sources

• Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• Socrates’ View on Death

• Aesop, Fables

• Homer, The Iliad

• Plato, The Cave

• Detailing the Life of Caesar Augustus

• Tacitus on Corruption in the Early Roman Empire

Selective Activities/Assessments

• Students will identify the point of view, intended purpose, audience, and historical context of the source

• Writing Assignments: Comparison of the role women in classical civilizations

• Discussion: was it preferable to be a woman in the Han or Roman Empire?

• Talk Show with important figures from classical civilizations

• ABC books of classical contributions

• Prevent the Fall of the Roman Empire

UNIT FOUR—The Age of Empires

Major Topics:

• The Mongols Khanates

• Ming and Qing Rule in China

• Japanese Shogunates

• The Byzantine Empire

• Empires in the Americas

• The Ottomans

• The Mughals

• Great Zimbabwe

Sources:

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers:

• Traveling among the Mongols; Journey to the Land of the Tartars, The Human Record

• Justinian Code

• Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire

Selective Activities and Assessments

• Trial of Genghis Khan

• The “Greatest Empire” contest

UNIT FIVE: The Old and New Imperialism

Overview Topics:

• Motivations for, countries involved in and outcomes of the Old and New Imperialism

• The Columbian Exchange

• Decolonization

Sources

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• Columbus’ Letter to the King and Queen of Spain

• The World That Trade Created, 2nd Edition, : Chapter 2, Section 2.2: Better to Be Lucky than Smart: Christopher Columbus

• A European account of the slave trade

• Aztec accounts of the Conquest of Mexico

• Bartolome de la Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies

• Hobson, Imperialism

• Kipling, The White Man’s Burden

• Morel, The Black Man’s Burden

• Adam Smith on the Cost of Empire

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Students will identify the point of view, intended purpose, audience, and historical context of the source.

• Project Runway with key explorers, imperialists and nationalists from the periods.

• Columbian Exchange document activity

• Pro-Se Arguments on the impact of Old and New Imperialism

• Group essay comparing the Old and New Imperialism

• Dual Poetry

• Watch Guns, Germs and Steel

UNIT SIX: Economic Systems and Networks for Exchange

Overview Topics:

• Barter systems, mercantilism, feudalism, communism and capitalism

• Interregional trade networks: Hanseatic League; Silk Roads; Trans-Saharan routes

• Essay: Changes and Continuities in patterns of interactions along the Silk Road

• Debate on the merits and drawbacks of trade along the Silk Road

• Following an item on the Silk Road project

Sources

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• Engels and Marx, The Communist Manifesto

• Smith, The Wealth of Nations

• The World That Trade Created, 2nd Edition: Chapter 4: “Transplanting: Commodities in World Trade”

• Feudal documents

• Sixty-second commercials on trade routes

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Students will identify the point of view, intended purpose, audience, and historical context of source materials.

• Socratic Seminar: Students debate the merits and drawbacks of various economic systems

• Economic system simulations

• Comparison of the Silk Roads, Hanseatic Trade and Trans Saharan trade networks

UNIT SEVEN: Global Celebrations

Overview Topics:

• Global celebrations: Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, The Festival of Lights, Chinese New Year, St. Lucia Day, and Christmas around the world

Sources

Outside readings and internet searches

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Group or individual I-Search projects and presentations

UNIT EIGHT: Power and Governance

Overview Topics:

• Comparison of political systems in history

• Points in time assignment for government systems

• Trials of political leaders

• The enlightened despots

• A comparison of dynasties: Song, Romanov, Imperial House of Japan

• Comparison of the following empires: Ottoman, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, French, English, Tokugawan, Mughal, Benin, and Songhay.

Sources

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• The Magna Carta

• Machiavelli, The Prince

• Hobbes, The Leviathan

• Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government

• Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

• Rousseau, The Social Contract

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Government comparison charts and time line

• Hobbes vs. Locke Pre-Se Court

• Machiavelli seminar on various world leaders

• Totalitarian Dictator simulation

• Leader resumes and job interviews

UNIT NINE: Revolutions

Overview Topics:

• Causes, events, and consequences associated with revolutions in

o Russia

o Haiti

o Mexico

o France (1789)

o China

o South African anti-apartheid movement

o Gandhi and India’s independence

Sources

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• Brinton, The Anatomy of a Revolution

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Revolution game boards

• Revolution time line

UNIT TEN: Innovation

Overview Topics:

• Medieval times

• The Northern vs. Italian Renaissance

• The Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counterreformation

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Enlightenment

• The Industrial Revolution

Sources

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• Erasmus, The Praise of Folly

• Luther, The Ninety-five Theses

• Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man

• Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci

• Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

• Voltaire, Candide

• Dickens, Hard Times

• Chadwick, Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Renaissance gallery

• Trial of Martin Luther

• Astronomers round table

• Enlightenment Salon

• Debate on the costs and benefits of the Industrial Revolution

• Invention newscast

UNIT ELEVEN: Diseases that Altered History

Overview Topics:

• Smallpox

• The Black Death

• Influenza Epidemic

• Cholera

• Malaria

• Polio

• Plant disease associated with the Irish Potato Famine

• AIDS

• The Bacterial Revolution

Sources:

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

• Primary sources on the Black Death

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Document-based essay on the Black Death

• History Bowl

• Internet Scavenger Hunt

UNIT TWELVE: War

Overview Topics:

• Punic Wars

• The Crusades

• Thirty Years’ War

• Napoleonic Wars

• Russo-Japanese War

• World War I

• World War II

• The Cold War

• The War on Terror

Sources:

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers

The Crusades through Muslim and Christian Eyes

Excerpts from Stoessinger’s Why Nations Go to War

Wilson, The Fourteen Points

Sun- Tzu, The Art of War

Selected Activities/Assessments

• War newscasts

• Phases of the Thirty Years’ War demonstrations

• WWI propaganda project

• Point-of-view exercises with WWII

• Debate over dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Pro-Se debate on the origins of the Cold War

• I-Search for the War on Terror

UNIT THIRTEEN: The Creative Genius

Overview Topics:

• Art through the ages

Sources:

Textbook Chapters

Supplemental Reading or Readers:

• Stone, excerpts from The Agony and the Ecstasy

• Artist biographies

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Art Gallery

• Art history timeline

UNIT FOURTEEN: Our Global Community

Overview Topics:

• Terrorism

• The Post Superpower World

• “McDonaldization”

• The Struggle for Rights

Sources:

Textbook Chapters

Selected Activities/Assessments

• Topicals

• Learning Gallery for the Year

• Portfolios

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