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.
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.