World History (Credit Recovery)

Syllabus:

World History Semester 1

Section 1 - The First Global Age

After completing this section, students will:

• Understand key historical periods.
•  Understand the motivations that led to the exploration and the expansion of empires: Belief systems, Economic, Political, Social.
• Relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western political thought.
• Explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange.

Lessons:

• The Early Modern Period in World History 1450 – 1750
• The Renaissance 1450 – 1650
• The Reformation and The Scientific Revolution
• The Age of Exploration

Section 1 (Texas Only) - Early Civilizations

After completing this section, the students will:

• Analyze how the Silk Road and the African gold-salt trade facilitated the spread of ideas and trade.
• Understand traditional historical points of reference in world history.
• Understand how historians use historiography to interpret the past and apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology.
• Explain how major river valley civilizations influenced the development of the classical civilizations.
• Describe the major characteristics of and the factors contributing to the development of the political/social system of feudalism and the economic system of manorialism.

Lessons:

• River Valley Civilizations Prehistory – 2500 BCE
• River Valley Civilizations Part 1 2500 – 500 BCE
• River Valley Civilizations Part 2 2500 – 500 BCE
• The Classical Era 500 BCE – 600 CE
• The Post-Classical Era Part 1 600 – 1450 CE
• The Post-Classical Era Part 2 600 – 1450 CE

Section 2 - The Emergence of Modern America

After completing this section, students will be able to:

• Construct historical arguments or explanations about global changes caused directly or indirectly by economic and political revolutions, using primary and secondary sources.
• Identify the impact of political and legal ideas contained in the following documents: Hammurabi's Code, the Jewish Ten Commandments, Justinian's Code of Laws, Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
• Identify the major political, economic, and social motivations that influenced European imperialism.
• Understand the roles of women, children, and families in different historical cultures.
• Understand historical chronology.

Lessons:

• The Age of Absolutism
• The Enlightenment
• The Age of Revolutions
• The French Revolution Continued

Section 3 - The Emergence of Modern America Part 2

After completing this section, students will be able to:

• Evaluate the development, expansion, and effects of industrialization in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
•  Understand the causes and the global impact of the Industrial Revolution and European imperialism from 1750 to 1914.
• Understand how historical events inform analysis of contemporary issues and events. 
• Identify the influence of ideas such as nationalism on political revolutions.
• Explain how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change.
• Assess how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Lessons:

• The Industrial Revolution
• Imperialism
• Revolutions Worldwide
• Nationalism Builds toward War

Section 4 - Mass Society & Democracy

After completing this section, students will be able to:

• Understand the relationship between the arts and the times during which they were created.
• Construct explanations about global changes caused directly or indirectly by economic and political revolutions, using primary and secondary sources.
• Analyze the influence of human and physical geographic factors on major events in world history.
• Analyze the changes in cultural and social life due to artistic and literary movements and scientific and technological innovations.
• Describe the major influences of women during major eras of world history.

Lessons:

• The Second Industrial Revolution
• Mass Society
• State of the Nations and Democracy
• Toward Modern Consciousness

World History Semester 2

Section 1 - Era of Global Wars

After completing this section, the students will be able to:

• Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.
• Trace Stalin’s rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights.
• Understand the causes and impact of the global economic depression immediately following World War I.
• Explain the responses of governments to the global depression.
• Explain how the perspectives of people in the present shape interpretations of the past.
• Analyze the impact of advances in science and technology on World War I.
• Analyze causes and consequences of voluntary and forced mass migration.

Lessons:

• Marching Toward War Marching Toward War
• World War I (WWI)
• The Interwar Years
• The Great Depression

Section 2 - Another World War

After completing this section, the students will be able to:

• Understand the causes and impact of World War II.
• Compare and contrast the impact of political and military leadership of Axis and Allied powers during World War II.
• Understand how historical events inform analysis of contemporary issues and events.
• Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
• Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.

Lessons:

• Hitler and Nazi Germany
• World War II
• World War II Part 2 - Major Turning Points
• Post-war Politics - Foreign and Domestic Policy
• Post-War America - Life, Culture, and Counterculture

Section 3 - Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa Post-War

After completing this section, the students will be able to:

• Analyze the change and continuity in global power after World War II, including the growing rivalry between Communist and democratic governments in various region.
• Analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
• Consider the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world.
• Analyze instances of nation-building in the contemporary world.
• Examine the outcomes of social, economic, and political transformations in the West, Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Latin America.
• Analyze the influence of human and physical geographic factors on major events in world history.

Lessons:

• The Cold War and Postwar Changes
• Latin America
• Africa and The Middle East Since WWII
• Asia and The Pacific

Section 4 - Global Interdependence

After completing this section, the students will be able to:

• Understand how human-made and natural disasters affect global trade, politics, and human migration.
• Be able to identify major causes and describe the major effects of important turning points in world history.
• Describe the economic impact of globalization.
• Analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions.
• Explain foreign exchange, the way exchange rates are determined, and the effects of the dollar’s gaining (or losing) value relative to other currencies.
• Analyze how economic choices made by groups and individuals in the global economy can impose costs and provide benefits.
• Define and evaluate how technology and ideas have shaped world history.

Lessons:

• Trade and Globalization
• The Global Economy
• The Global Impact of Science and Technology
• Challenges of a New Century