Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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
Prehistory
and
Geographic
Regions
Students will:
1. Analyze the
Early complex
Societies, 3500
to 500 B.C.E.
2. Explain and
evaluate
contributions of
significant
Individuals or
historical times
in politics,
economics, or
society.
Performance Standard(s)
covered
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;
Activities/assessments (strategies)
used to meet objectives
1. Book Checkout (A-107)
2. Quick review of Syllabus
3. Introduce Website
(graceapworldhistory.weebly.co
m)
4. Periodization and Themes
Power point
5. Maps:
a. Reviewing Locations on a
World Map
b. Reviewing World Regions
6. Key Vocabulary Chapter 1
pages 5-22
7. Cornell Notes: Pre-History
Differentiation:
1. Redo any assignments not
meeting proficiency (80% or
higher)
Resources/Materials:
EPSS/Common
Core Standards
Literacy
Key Ideas and
Details
CCSS.ELALiteracy.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.ELALiteracy.RH.9-10.4
Determine the
meaning of words
and phrases as they
are used in a text,
including
3. Computer/Projector
vocabulary
describing political,
social, or economic
aspects of
history/social
science.
Range of Reading
and Level of Text
Complexity
CCSS.ELALiteracy.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.