Month Content/Essential Questions Skills/Activities Resources Assessments Standards/Anchors September October Unit I: Western Civilization and the Renaissance Greek and Roman influence Christianity s rise Islam and Byzantine Feudalism an health Unit II: Religious Change and Tension Italian rejuvenation French power Monarchy and nation-state Portuguese navigation, introduction to global economy Spanish exploration and the hunt for wealth Religious tension and the divide in the church Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Henry VIII Families Development of literature Unit III: an Political Shifts Counter-Reformation France and Protestantism Spain as a superpower Elizabethan England s rise Religion and politics in the Thirty Years War Economic Growth Louis XIV and absolutism Competition and compassion from the Ottoman Empire Unit III: an Political Shifts Counter-Reformation France and Protestantism Spain as a superpower Elizabethan England s rise Religion and politics in the Thirty Years War Economic Growth Louis XIV and absolutism Competition and compassion from the Ottoman Empire Unit IV: Culture: Civilization, Art, Science, and Academics Discovery Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Bacon, & Galileo Interpreting scientific knowledge Scientific Revolution & results Agriculture and the use of land AP1 Students will recognize the significance of older Western institutions and their impact on Modern AP2 Students can identify the major religious differences of the reformation and counterreformation, the artistic and educational changes of the Renaissance, and the cultural changes of the populous. AP3 Students attain knowledge about absolutism and the limitations on some leaders, along with changing alliances in in the 16th and 17th centuries AP3 Students attain knowledge about absolutism and the limitations on some leaders, along with changing alliances in in the 16th and 17th centuries AP4 Students will recognize famous scientists and the contributions they made to society, along with changes in agriculture and the way people lived in the 17th Century Biography of Significant Figure
November December January Urban growth and health Order of society, top to bottom Expansion of population, economy, and property rights Unit V: Expansion Following Columbian Exchange Nation-states in the 18th century Triangular trade and slavery Colonial development Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War Military tactics Great Britain s central government American outrage and an response Unit VI: Enlightenment Politics and the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Locke, Hume, Montesquieu Enlightened thought & leaders Ascension of the Romanov family in Toleration and diversity in religion Jewish and Islamic influence in Women in 18th century Philosophy and the influence on art Poland s existence Unit VII: France s Revolution and Napoleon: an Impact Mistakes of the monarchy Attempts at compromise 1789 National Assembly, Bastille, Declarations, and Marches Politics of France Internal Turmoil End of Louis SIV and Marie Antoinette Reign of Terror an response to the revolution Napoleon s rise to power Empire and impact on Napoleon s downfall Congress of Vienna Balancing power and Metternich Romanticism Education, literature, art, religion, historiography Unit VII: France s Revolution and Napoleon: an Impact Mistakes of the monarchy Attempts at compromise 1789 National Assembly, Bastille, Declarations, and AP5 - Students will have the ability to see the impact of exploration in and determine the effects as positive or negative AP6 Students can identify the significant figures of the Enlightenment and the impact of philosophy on schools and politics in AP7 Students will know the importance of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte, particularly on the borders, alliances, and lives of AP7 Students will know the importance of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte, particularly on the borders, alliances, and lives of
Marches Politics of France Internal Turmoil End of Louis SIV and Marie Antoinette Reign of Terror an response to the revolution Napoleon s rise to power Empire and impact on Napoleon s downfall Congress of Vienna Balancing power and Metternich Romanticism Education, literature, art, religion, historiography Unit VIII: Balancing and Resistance of the Populous Nationalism, liberalism, and opposition Revolt Germany, Spain, Greece, Russia, France Polish, Italian, and German nationalism Reform in Great Britain Middle and working classes changes for men and women Industrial work Classical economics Anarchy, utopia, Karl Marx 1848 France, Germany, Central, Italy, Hungary February Unit IX: an Culture 1840 1920 Urban form Industrial revolution, Western & Eastern advancement Women s roles in society and feminism Labor unions Interpretation of Marxism Fabianism Literacy Welfare state Christianity s limits Advancement in science Unit X: Nationalism and the First Great War Crimean War German and Italian statehood French reform Austro-Hungarian Empire Russia from reforms to revolutions to reversal Democracy and Great Britain Imperialism AP 8 Students will recognize the changes made to after the Napoleonic Era in an effort to bring a conservative balance to the system AP9 Students will know the cultural repercussions of urbanization and industrialization, specifically involving women and the working class AP 10 Students will be able to understand the affects of nationalism on creation and reshaping of nation-states in Paper on Social Topic
March April Alliances The Great War New government and Bolshevism End of War settlement left to unravel Unit X: Nationalism and the First Great War Crimean War German and Italian statehood French reform Austro-Hungarian Empire Russia from reforms to revolutions to reversal Democracy and Great Britain Imperialism Alliances The Great War New government and Bolshevism End of War settlement left to unravel Unit XI: Political Radicalism, Economics, and coming of the Second Great War End of imperialism and expanded nationalism Civil strife - those on the political left and right Weimar Republic Building fascism Italy and Germany Political extremism in Central and Eastern Society in France and Britain Great Depression Soviet Union and centralization Nazis and the Third Reich Militarization Pre-War alliances Unit XII: The Second Great War Spanish Civil War Breathing Room Appeasement Invasion of Poland Drive to the West Battle of Britain War and Axis Nationalism and racism, atrocity of the Holocaust Italy s blunders Germany from offense to defense Big Three and peace Unit XIII: Cold War Polarization and the Post-War: Convergence or Divergence? United Nations AP 10 Students will be able to understand the affects of nationalism on creation and reshaping of nation-states in AP11 Students will be able to identify the changing face of in between the two Great Wars, including economic decline and political reformation AP12 Students will understand the Second Great War from a an perspective and how it shapes the future of the Cold War AP13 Students will know how tensions between the USA and the USSR impact and how globalization brings some ans together and puts others in a manner of protest Historiography Power Point Presentation
May June Cold War enemies and allies Germany and Eastern Soviet Union and change to Post-Stalinism France and national identity China, Korea, Communism impact on Last gasps of imperialism Population, pollution, Welfare State Women after the Second Great War Catholicism, secularism, atheism Ancient wounds uncovered ethnicity and religion Capitalism v. Marxism Fall of the Soviet Union Global market and immigration an Union Unit XIII: Cold War Polarization and the Post-War: Convergence or Divergence? United Nations Cold War enemies and allies Germany and Eastern Soviet Union and change to Post-Stalinism France and national identity China, Korea, Communism impact on Last gasps of imperialism Population, pollution, Welfare State Women after the Second Great War Catholicism, secularism, atheism Ancient wounds uncovered ethnicity and religion Capitalism v. Marxism Fall of the Soviet Union Global market and immigration an Union AP13 Students will know how tensions between the USA and the USSR impact and how globalization brings some ans together and puts others in a manner of protest Power Point Presentation