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                                                     Ancient-Medieval History, Middle School
                                                                                      2017-2018 Course Overview


Required Text: The Human Odyssey: Prehistory Through the Middle Ages, Klee, Cribb and Holdren, K12, Inc. 


Objective 
To give a foundational understanding of history as a fascinating and exciting chronological narrative so that the student gains a sense for how each successive era unfolded out of the previous, and so the student is able to form a "mental timeline" for placing significant events and personalities in the context of the whole.  

Sequence of units 

Unit  1:  Scientists and the Dating of History 
Unit  2:  Early Human Civilizations 
Unit  3:  Mesopotamia 
Unit  4:  The Spread of Civilization: Egypt, India, China
Unit  5:  Hinduism, Buddhism, And Confucianism
Unit  6:  Ancient Hebrews and Judaism 
Unit  7:  Ancient Greece 
Unit  8:  Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Age 
Unit  9:  The Roman Republic 
Unit 10: The Roman Empire and Christianity 
Unit 11:  The Byzantine Empire 
Unit 12: The Islamic Empire 
Unit 13: The African Empire 
Unit 14: The Middle Ages in Western Europe 
Unit 15: The Middle Ages in East Asia 
Unit 16: The Fall of Medieval Society

In Class:
--Elaboration upon assigned reading through lecture.
--Socratic discussion focused on a particular question related to the unit of study.  
--Group work with primary source documents  
--Map study  
--Review and discussion of weekly homework.  


Homework:
--Read assigned text and complete assigned questions/writings.  
--Complete intermittent research assignments.
​--Maintain an interactive history notebook.



                                                                                This syllabus is subject to revision.





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