Pre-AP World History
Sharyland Advanced Academic Academy 2019-2020
Teacher: Mr.
Isaac G. Pietrzak Rm: 204
Email: Given in class or use "Contact Me" Tab in the Left
Margin
Conference:
2nd Block first semester,
5th Block second semester
Tutoring: 7:30-8:00am
M-F; Tuesday 4:00-5:00pm
AP WORLD HISTORY 18 Week Course Accelerated Block (90
minutes) Fall 2019 and Spring 2020
“Our
job is not to make up anyone’s mind, but to open minds- to make the agony of
decision-making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.”---Fred Friendly, CBS News
Just
whose history are we studying? The history of the human race and how humankind
developed in time encompasses the study of philosophy, art, language and
literature and political history. We will avoid the stereotypical Eurocentric
approach to World History. We study people, places, events and how all of these
relate in time? What effect did a person have upon an event? Where did an event
happen and why is that important? We can understand others and ourselves by
studying history We can learn to be more tolerant of others, maybe even be
front runners in avoiding future wars--or know when our only recourse is to
fight. This is a Pre-AP class. The approach to studying history in a Pre-AP
class is different from in regular classes. We ask how and why and analyze
events critically. We study the interaction and impact of systems on a global
scale.
The Five Themes of World
History
Students
in this course must learn to view history thematically. This Pre-AP World
History course is organized around five overarching themes that serve as
unifying threads throughout the course, helping students to relate what is
particular about each time period or society to a “big picture” of history. The
themes also provide a way to organize comparisons and analyze change and
continuity over time. Consequently, virtually all study of history in this
class will be tied back to these themes by utilizing a “SPICE” acronym.
Social-Development
and transformation of social structures
- Gender roles and relations
- Family and kinship
- Racial and ethnic constructions
- Social and economic classes
Political-State building, expansion and conflict
- Political structures and forms of
governance
- Empires
- Nations and nationalism
- Revolts and revolutions
- Regional, transregional, and
global structures and organizations
Interaction between humans and the environment
- Demography and disease
- Migration
- Patterns of settlement
- Technology
Cultural-Development and interaction of cultures
- Religions
- Belief systems, philosophies and
ideologies
- Science and technology
- The arts and architecture
Economic-Creation, expansion and interaction of economic
systems
- Agricultural and pastoral
production
- Trade and commerce
- Labor systems
- Industrialization
- Capitalism and socialism
Habits of Mind:
- Constructing and evaluating
arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments
- Using documents and other primary
data: developing the skills necessary to analyze point of view, context,
and bias, and to understand and interpret information
- Assessing issues of change and
continuity over time, including the capacity to deal with change as a
process and with questions of causation
- Understanding diversity of
interpretations through analysis of context, point of view, and frame of
reference.
- Seeing global patterns and
processes over time and space while also connecting local developments to
global ones and moving through levels of generalizations from the global
to the particular
- Comparing within and among
societies, including comparing societies reactions to global processes
- Being aware of human commonalities
and differences while assessing claims of universal standards, and
understanding culturally diverse ideas and values in historical context
Texts: Student
Text: Mastering the TEKS: World History by
Jarret; Houghton Mufflin Harcourt’s World History
Supplemental
Materials:
Unit Resources available
such as:
- PPTX
- Chapter Vocabulary
- Notes
- Quizzes
- “Story of Mankind” questions.
- Lead4ward World History Field
Guide for Learning Experience Vocabulary
- Video and Electronic Sources:
Millennium Series. CNN
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. National Geographic Society
Lost Civilizations Series. Time/Life
Civilization Series. BBC
Migrations in Modern History. World History Center
OUR SOCIAL CONTRACT
All
men are made by nature to be equals, therefore no one has a natural right to
govern others, and therefore the only justified authority is the authority that
is generated out of agreements or covenants. The most basic covenant, the
social pact, is the agreement to come together and form a people, a
collectivity, which by definition is more than and different from a mere
aggregation of individual interests and wills. This act, where individual
persons become a people is "the real foundation of society". Through
the collective renunciation of the individual rights and freedom that one has
in the State of Nature, and the transfer of these rights to the collective
body, a new ‘person', as it were, is formed. After careful and thoughtful
negotiations, these by-laws establish a groundwork for the success of our
educational goals as a society.
1. FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS.
This includes those given by me or substitute teachers. Please ask me for help
on something you do not understand. I will no do your work for you, but I am
willing to help. You must pay attention.
2. COME TO CLASS PREPARED WITH ALL REQUIRED MATERIAL. Always assume that you need pen, pencil, paper and
notebook despite any unforeseen circumstance. Music will be played in class on
a regular basis.
3. TURN IN YOUR ASSIGNMENTS ON TIME. It is your responsibility to keep up with your work. No
credit will be given for late work.
4. PROMPTNESS. Be in your seat before the
bell rings. Notebooks out. There is no assigned seating unless it becomes a
disciplinary situation.
5. ALLOW TEACHER TO TEACH. I will treat you with RESPECT and consideration and it is expected that you will treat
peers and adults in a courteous and respectful manner. Be a historian.
6. COMPLY WITH ALL SCHOOL RULES, REGULATIONS, AND
POLICIES. It is most important that you know the
rules if you are expected to follow them. Read your student handbook.
Dress code will be strictly enforced.
7. KEEP THE CLASSROOM (and desks) CLEAN. Put trash in the trash can by the door. Bottled water
will be allowed in class.
8. TESTS. These are a way to
evaluate your progress and understanding of the material. You will have a
variety of these evaluations including oral
debates and circles, PBL’s, objective tests, and essays (Short Answer, DBQ’s, and FRQ’s). You will often have
reading quizzes but you may use your handwritten notes on your
reading quizzes.
9. ABSENCES. If
you are absent a day, please let me know via email. If posted quizzes or tests
are given during your absence, on the day you return you are required to take them. All effort will be given to eliminate overlapping due
dates and requiring more than a textbook chapter in a week.
10. KEY CONCEPTS. These
are goals that will be accomplished during the study of the chapter or unit.
Use them as study guides. There are learning objectives as well. When we are
finished with the chapter or unit, this is what you are expected to know and
understand. Your evaluations (tests) come from these objectives. Your test
essay questions come from these as well.
11. GROUPS. We
often work in groups. This requires cooperation and that you pull your own
weight. If you have not participated in the group activity and allowed others
to do all of the work you risk receiving a zero for the activity or for a daily
grade. Forming study groups outside of class is a good way to understand and
study the material.
12. PARTICIPATION. Everyone
is expected to answer oral questions, ask questions and participate in class
and group discussions. The learning environment requires maturity and as a
class we will make it possible for all to participate comfortably. Rude,
unpleasant, or insulting remarks during a class discussion will result in
disciplinary action.
13. ETHICAL BEHAVIOR. Do
your own work. Work that has been copied from others or plagiarized will not be accepted. ****
Cheating on tests or quizzes will result in a zero on that test and parental
contact. Honor code violations will result in course-wide restrictions. The
honor code will be explained and strict adherence will be required.
Establishing study groups, and assisting fellow students with notes will not be
considered cheating.
14. ATTENDANCE. Please avoid absences.
Due to the accelerated block schedule, absenteeism can quickly become a very
serious problem. Many class activities cannot be reproduced. Often in group
work other students are depending upon you to be present with your completed
work. Frequent absences inadvertently impact your grade. Make-up work is done outside of class.
15. CONSEQUENCES.
You make your own choices and just as there are many rewards for correct
choices, there are punishments for choices outside the rules. Listed below are
both positive and negative consequences:
A. POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES
1.
Praise given to student
2.
Privileges (sitting wherever you want)
3.
Academic accolades
4.
Bright future—college, wealth, power, fame…
B. NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
1.
Verbal or written warning (Simply asking for the behavior to stop or calling
out the name)
2.
Student-Teacher conference (may ask student to step outside of class to
privately discuss issue.)
3.
Assignment to Detention Hall (30 minutes after school or at lunch with prior
notice to student and parents)
4.
Parent-Teacher conference (usually a telephone call or email at first, then
later a request to come to school)
5.
Academic/Behavioral Referral to Administration.
SEVERE CLAUSE
Students
and parents should be aware that major disruptions or infractions would result in the student
being sent to the principal without consideration to the outlined discipline
plan at the discretion of the teacher. My purpose is to help you have a
successful year. We are studying the past to help form our future. Let's have a
great year in OUR society.
Timeline
of Content
Week 0
Introduce
Syllabus, Course Expectations, and Review Chapters 1-4: How to Answer
Multiple-Choice Questions, How to Answer Data-Based Questions, and How to
Interpret Historical Sources
Week 1
Chapter
5: The Rise of River Valley Civilizations. In this chapter, you will learn
about the development of farming during the Neolithic Revolution, and about the
ancient river valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China. You
will also learn about the ancient Hebrews and their religious beliefs.
Week 2
Chapter
6: The “Classical Era” in the West. In this chapter, you will learn about the
classical civilizations of Persia, Greece, and Rome. These civilizations ruled
over the Mediterranean world and much of Europe for more than a thousand years,
and gave birth to great works of philosophy, aft, science, music and
literature.
Week 3
Chapter
7: The “Classical Era” in the East. In this chapter, you will focus on the
civilizations that thrived in the East. You will examine China’s Zhou, Qin, and
Han Dynasties, and India’s Maurya and Gupta Empires. These civilizations
flourished in the East during this same time period as Greece and Rome. They
established Hinduism, the caste system in India, and created a unified empire
in China.
Week 4
Chapter
8: The Middle Ages in Europe. In this chapter, you will look at the events that
took place in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In Eastern Europe, the
Byzantine Empire emerged. Western Europe fell into a period of chaos and
disorder, which ended with a new social order known as feudalism.
Week 5
Chapter
9: The Islamic World and Africa. In this chapter, you will learn about the
emergence of Islam in the Middle East and how it spread. You will also look at
how the African gold-salt trade brought about the spread of ideas and commerce
to West Africa.
Week 6
Chapter
10: Post-Classical Asia and Beyond. In this chapter, you will focus on major
developments in the Ottoman Empire, India, China, and Central Asia. You WILL
learn how Muslim invaders established Sultanates and the MughaL Empire in
India, how the Ottomans captured Constantinople, and how the Mongols conquered
an empire stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea.
Week 7
Chapter
11: Renaissance and Reformation. In this chapter, you will learn about the
causes, characteristics and impact of the Renaissance in Western Europe. You
will also look at how the Protestant Reformation forever shattered the unity of
the Catholic Church and plunged Europe into a century of war.
Week 8
Chapter
12: The Americas: Pre-Columbian Empires to Colonies. In this chapter, you will
look at the civilizations that flourished in the Americas before the arrival of
Christopher Columbus in 1492 — the Maya, Aztec, and Inca. Then you will learn
about European exploration, the Columbian Exchange, and the colonization of the
Americas.
Week 9
Chapter
13: The Old Regime: Absolutism and Enlightenment. In this chapter, you will
Learn about the Commercial Revolution, the rise of absolutist rulers in Europe,
the English’ Civil War, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
Week 10
Chapter
14: The Age of Democratic Revolution. In this chapter, you will learn about the
American and French Revolutions and the independence of Latin America. They
brought great political changes as well as decades of bitter conflict. In the
early nineteenth century, peace was restored but the continuing contest between
the forces of change and resistance remained just below the surface.
Week 11
Chapter
15: The Industrial Revolution. In this chapter, you will learn about the
conditions that led to economic changes in Europe and America in the late
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The industrialization of Europe ted to the
unification of Italy and Germany as well as the rise of new social movements.
Week 12
Chapter
16: Imperialism: Europe Reaches Out. In this chapter, you will learn about the
causes and impact of European imperialism in the 1th century.
Week 13
Chapter
17: World War I and the Russian Revolution. In this chapter, you will learn how
a crisis between Austria-Hungary and Serbia set off a chain reaction that led
to a major world war. Russia left the war and experienced a Communist
revolution. After the war, the imperial governments of Germany,
Austria-Hungary, and Turkey disappeared, while new nations emerged in Eastern
Europe.
Week 14
Chapter
18: The Great Depression and World War II. In this chapter, you will examine
the prosperity in the Late 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the
rise of brutal fascist dictators Like Adolf Hitler. Then you will learn about
the major events of World War II.
Week 15
Chapter
19: Decolonization and the Cold War. In this chapter, you will learn how the
war brought an end to European colonial rule over much of the world. The Soviet
Union occupied Eastern Europe, while the United States possessed unparalleled
economic strength and the atomic bomb. The rivalry of these superpowers
unleashed a Cold War that affected every part of the globe for the next fifty
years.
Week 16
Chapter
20: Challenges in Our World Today. In this chapter, you will learn how the
collapse of Soviet Communism has led to new challenges. In the Middle East,
Israel has struggled to co-exist with its Arab neighbors, while the rise of
radical Islamic Fundamentalism has contributed to a growth in global terrorism.
In other regions, various ethnic groups have faced the threat of genocide.
For EXTRA information, I encourage you to watch these videos. They are very detailed and excellent for Pre-AP World History Review.
John Green's Crash Course in World History
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I encourage students to watch these three videos to introduced the analytical processes used in Social Sciences to delve deeper into content matter.
Documentary Series of Jared Diamond's book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
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