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.
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.