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  Renaissance-Early Modern History, Middle School
Tentative Course Outline

Required Text: The Human Odyssey: Our Modern World, 1400-1914. 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:  Renaissance and Reformation

Unit 2:  Exploration and Inquiry (Including studies of the civilizations of the Americas, Feudal Japan, and China)

Unit 3:  An Age of Democracy and Industrial Revolution

Unit 4:  An Age of Outreach and Overreach

Unit 5:  The Cataclysm and Beyond (Short overview of the Contemporary Era)



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 any assigned texts and complete assigned questions/writings.  
--Complete intermittent research assignments.
--Maintain an interactive history notebook.


                                                                      This syllabus is subject to revision.





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