SKILL I: The learner will acquire information from a variety of sources.
Conduct research on the laws of Hammurabi and analyze them to determine what the code tells the modern world about people and human activity at that time.
Construct a chart comparing different types of government in Greek city-states of the pre-classical era.

On a map or map overlays, show the lands of the Ottoman Empire at different periods: 1453, 1514, and 1683.

Develop a chart classifying the major diseases that were transferred as a result of transoceanic travel in the 16th and 17th centuries.

SKILL II: The learner will use information for problem solving, decision making, and planning.

After research, have students create a list of remains that archaeologists would need to find in order to determine if people occupying the site were nomadic or pastoral.
Gather evidence and support or refute the hypothesis that rice was first domesticated in Southeast Asia.
Determine if early Egyptian, Indian, and Mesopotamian societies borrowed ideas from each other.
Design a room for an exhibit of West African artifacts.

SKILL III: The learner will develop skills in constructive interpersonal relationships and in social participation.

Explain the reasons for tensions and conflicts between social classes in the Greek city-states.
Analyze the extent to which the contact between European Christians and Muslims in Spain had an influence on the rest of Europe.
Investigate the impact of Christian missionaries on Sub-Saharan Africa.

SKILL IV: The learner will participate effectively in civic affairs.

Write a position statement on using tax dollars to preserve art and artifacts from earlier periods in history.
Develop a recommendation for the United States and other western nations on whether they should return important artifacts that are now in museums to the country of their origin.
Analyze the British policies for administering their colony in India.

The World History course develops chronological and thematic insights. Nine chronological goals examine broad themes in the history of our world from the origins of humans to contemporary times:

UNIT I: ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

- Cite major developments from human origins to the rise of early civilizations.
- Trace developments and assess the achievements of early civilizations in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
- Trace developments and assess the achievements of early civilizations in South and East Asia.
- Compare the achievements of early civilizations in various settings.

UNIT II: CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS

- Trace the roots and recognize the achievements of Greek civilization through the Hellenistic period.
- Describe the achievements of the Roman Empire and judge their significance for Europeans after the fall of Rome.
- Judge the importance of India as a hub of world trade and culture and as a religious center during its Golden Age.
- Elaborate on the distinctive achievements of Chinese civilization.
- Describe and compare major Chinese, Indian, and Judeo-Christian beliefs.

UNIT III: TRADITIONAL CIVILIZATIONS

- Describe the legacies of Byzantine civilization for both Western and Eastern Europe.
- Trace the rise of Islam and cite the achievements of Islamic civilization.
- Elaborate on the achievements of Chinese and Japanese civilizations, noting their scientific innovations.
- Assess the importance of geographic isolation from Eurasia on the development of African empires and trading states.
- Evaluate the contributions of the major civilizations of the Americas during the pre-Columbian epoch.

UNIT IV: MEDIEVAL EUROPE

- Trace events in Western Europe from the fall of Rome to the emergence of nation-states.
- Analyze the extent to which religion integrated economic, political, and social life in medieval Europe.
- Assess the influence of contacts such as the crusades on different regions of Europe as well as on other societies.
- Assess the influence of emerging urban centers and universities on medieval society.

UNIT V: RISE OF THE WEST

- Trace social, political, and cultural changes associated with the Renaissance, Reformation, and rise of nation-states in Europe (1400-1650).
- Chart European expansion into other world areas and cite effects of this expansion on Africans, Native Americans, Asians, and Europeans (1400-1800).
- Cite major costs and benefits of the scientific and commercial revolutions for different segments of European society (1600-1800).
- Trace the progress of the Industrial Revolution and assess its effects on Europe and the World (1750-1914).
- Analyze the causes and assess the influence of political revolutions in England, North America, and France on individuals, governing bodies, and church-state relations (1640-1815).
- Analyze the impact of European expansion on societies in the Western Hemisphere.

UNIT VI: EUROPEAN DOMINATION

- Analyze the forces that both caused and allowed European nations to acquire colonial possessions and trading privileges in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
- Assess the influence of the church, aristocracies, and colonial export economies on Latin American society.
- Compare the effects of voluntary and forced Westernization on societies in Russia, North Africa, and Southwest Asia.
- Describe the changes that resulted when European commercial networks were replaced with political domination by the late nineteenth century.
- Evaluate the effects of colonialism on African, Asian, and European societies.

UNIT VII: TWENTIETH CENTURY TURMOIL

- Analyze the causes and assess the consequences of World War I.
- Judge the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution for Russia and the world.
- Evaluate the causes and consequences of the Great Depression on industrial societies.
- Evaluate World War II as the end of one era and the beginning of another.

UNIT VIII: MODERN ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY

- Trace the development of relationships between the Former Soviet Republics and the United States and cite consequences of these relationships for the world.
- Analyze economic and political recovery in Japan and Europe.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of independence movements in Asia and Africa as challenges to the European world domination established in the nineteenth century.
- Judge the effects of European domination on societies in Africa, Asia, and Southwest Asia as they reestablished their own economies and institutions of self-government.
- Assess the degree to which the international community is capable of resolving recurring global dilemmas.

UNIT IX: PATTERNS OF HISTORY

- Analyze and trace developments in literary, artistic, and religious traditions over time as legacies of past societies.
- Cite those phenomena which represent revolutionary breaks with the past and assess their impact on human history.
- Assess the degree to which discoveries, innovations, and technologies have accelerated change.
- Distinguish what is meant by "civilized behavior" or "civilization" in different times and places and link such meanings to the societies of which they were or are a part.

Offered to 10th - 12th graders

Teachers:
Ms. Paula Martinson (Team Leader)
Mr. Brad Owens (H/AP)
Mr. Scott Bacon
Ms. Laura Barnett

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