Course: AP World History Onate High School Week of: August 25-29 Course Description: Onate High School students will identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in World History in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.
Benchmark(s) covered 1-D. Skills: use critical thinking skills to understand and communicate perspectives of individuals, groups and societies from multiple contexts. 2- A: analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools, knowledge, skills, and perspectives and apply them to explain the past, present and future in terms of patterns, events and issues.
Topic/Focus
Content Objectives Performance Standard(s) covered Activities/assessments (strategies) used to meet objectives EPSS/Common Core Standards
Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the Indo- European Migration
Students will:
1. Analyze the formation of complex societies and sophisticated cultural traditions of Southwest Asia, and the impact of Indo- European migrations.
2. Explore geographic locations and regions around the World.
3. Explain and evaluate contributions of significant Individuals or historical times in politics, economics, or society.
2. Understand how to use the skills of historical analysis to apply to current social, political, geographic and economic issues; 3. Apply chronological and spatial thinking to understand the importance of events; 4. Describe primary and secondary sources and their uses in research; 5. Explain how to use a variety of historical research methods and documents to interpret and understand social issues (e.g., the friction among societies, the diffusion of ideas) 6. Interpret events and issues based upon the historical, economic, political, social and geographic context of the participants;
7. Analyze the evolution of particular historical and contemporary perspectives 1. Evaluate and select appropriate geographic representations to analyze and explain natural and man-made issues and problems
1. Cornell Notes: Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the Indo- European Migrations 2. Primary Source Writing: Hammurabis Code 3. Map Activities a. Fertile Crescent 4. Key Vocabulary Chapter 2 pages 25-46 5. Homework: Quiz #2 Chapter 2 pages 25-46 websitegraceapworldhistory.weebly.c om
Differentiation:
1. Redo any assignments not meeting proficiency (80% or higher)
Resources/Materials:
1. Textbook: Traditions and Encounters 2. Teacher developed assignments 3. Computer/Projector 4. World Map Blank 5. Nystrom World Map and activities 6. Website: graceapworldhistory.weebly.com
Literacy Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9- 10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9- 10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Critical Focus Question:
What role did technology play in the rise of the Empires in early Mesopotamia?
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9- 10.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 910 text complexity band independently and proficiently.