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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for High School Social Studies


STAAR Blueprint &
Assessed Curriculum
for World History

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World History

Curriculum Documents

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  • 1st 6 Weeks
  • 2nd 6 Weeks
  • 3rd 6 Weeks
  • 4th 6 Weeks
  • 5th 6 Weeks
  • 6th 6 Weeks

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2012-13 Model Lessons

 

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CONCEPT: Ideas & Belief Systems transform the world

 

UNIT TOPIC 1: Islam

ARC 1: The Rise and Spread of Islam

 

ARC 2: Islam’s Achievements and Impacts on Southwest Asia, Northern Africa, and Europe

Additional Resources


- TeachMidEast.org - outstanding website provided by the Middle East Policy Council designed for K-12 educators and featuring a plethora of innovative new resources on the Middle East and Islam. The site includes classroom activities, downloadable multimedia content and interactive Google Earth tours.

- "The Baghdad That Was: Using Primary Sources to Teach World History";
Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Social Education

- Curriculum Units, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas.

 

UNIT TOPIC 2: The Middle Ages

ARC 1: European Middle Ages and Feudalism

Arc 2: Byzantines, Russians, Turks, Ottomans,
and the Mongols

 

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  • 14th-Century Prague: An Approach to Using Literature - This unit found on OutreachWorld.org covers medieval Czechoslovakia which serves as a model for the feudal system. Areas covered in 14th-Century Prague include the secular and religious hierarchy of feudal times, the position and importance of Jews in that world, the daily lives of serfs, Jews and knights, and the structure of a castle.

    The primary materials used are David Macaulay's The Castle, both the book and the video, and "A Boy of Old Prague," by Sulamith Ish-Kishor and Ben Shahn.

  • Flying Through the Crusades [Wiki] - Lesson plan using Google Maps to plot the route of the Crusades. (Frances Haugen, Teaching Assistant and Karin Thorne, Teacher)
  • Decameron Web was created by a group of graduate students in Italian Studies at Brown University during 1994-95 and continues to be an outstanding, frequently updated site confirming the relevance of this primary source, The Decameron, as a true encyclopedia of early modern life and a summa of late medieval culture.
  • The Mughal Legacy
  • The Ottoman's

UNIT TOPIC  3: Transformations in Perspective -
Renaissance and Reformation

ARC 1: The European Renaissance

Arc 2: The Protestant Reformation

 

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CONCEPT: Contact & Conquest impact world civilizations

UNIT TOPIC 1:  Asian, African & American Civilizations Prior to the Age of Exploration

 

ARC 1: Asian and African Civilizations

ARC 2: American Civilizations

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UNIT TOPIC 2: The Age of Exploration

ARC 1: Ming Dynasty Exploration

ARC 2: European Exploration


ARC 3: The Columbian Exchange,
Commercial Revolution, & the Slave Trade


ARC 4: Monarchs Move Toward Absolute Power


ARC 5: England Limits the Power of the Monarchy in the Glorious Revolution

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CONCEPT: Enlightenment, Revolution, & Imperialism

UNIT TOPIC 1:  Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

ARC 1:

  • Lesson Portfolio:

 

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UNIT TOPIC 2:  Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

ARC 1: Scientific Revolution

  • Lesson Portfolio: Role Play activity - The Inquisition vs. Galileo's Claims

 

ARC 2: Enlightenment Thinkers

  • Lesson Portfolio: Mind Notes and Quotes project

ARC 3: American Colonies, War for Independence and the Constitution of the United States

  • Lesson Portfolio: Influence of the Enlightenment on the American Revolution
  • Lesson Portfolio: Examining the Origin of Ideas in the U.S. Constitution

 

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UNIT TOPIC 3: The French Revolution

ARC 1: The French Revolution -
Causes, Main Events and Outcomes

  • Lesson Portfolio: Primary Sources - Analyzing Perspectives on the French Revolution

 

ARC 2: Comparative Analysis -
The American and French Revolutions

  • Lesson Portfolio: Anatomy of a Revolution

 

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UNIT TOPIC 3: Nationalism and Revolution

ARC 1: Haitian and Latin American Revolutions

  • Lesson Portfolio: Invitation to Bolivar's Speech

 

ARC 2: Revolutionary Spirit Spreads -
Greece, Italy, France, Russia and Ottoman Empire

  • Lesson Portfolio: Nationalism Political Cartoons

 

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CONCEPT: Conflict & Power

UNIT TOPIC 1:  Industrial Revolution

ARC 1: Industrialization and Urbanization

  • Lesson Portfolio: Revolutionary Inventions in America

 

ARC 2: Age of Democracy & Progress

  • Lesson Portfolio: Museum Activity - Invention, Discovery or New Idea

 

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UNIT TOPIC 2: Imperialism

ARC 1: Imperialism in Africa, Muslim Lands,
India & Southeast Asia

  • Lesson Portfolio: Views of Imperialism - Pros and Cons

ARC 2: China and Japan Face the West and Imperialism in Latin America

  • Lesson Portfolio: Compare the Construction of Two Canals - Panama and Suez

 

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UNIT TOPIC 3: World War I & Post-war Changes

ARC 1: World War I Events & Outcomes

  • Lesson Portfolio: World War I Sensory Figure

ARC 2: Russian Revolution & Totalitarianism

  • Lesson Portfolio: Journal Entry - Life under Stalin's Economic Plans

ARC 3: Nationalism in China, India & Southwest Asia

  • Lesson Portfolio: Collage: Revolutionary Leaders 1900-1939

 

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UNIT TOPIC 4: Great Depression & World War II

ARC 1: Early Twentieth Century Culture and the Great Depression

  • Lesson Portfolio: Roosevelt's New Deal - DL lesson

ARC 2: World War II Events and Outcomes

  • Lesson Portfolio: Appeasement - Create a Cartoon and "Picto-Word"

ARC 3: Holocaust

  • Lesson Portfolio: Socratic Seminar/Debate: Ethical dilemmas in the Holocaust

 

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CONCEPT: Ideologies and Globalization

UNIT TOPIC 1:  The Cold War

ARC 1: Post-WWII and the Rise of the Superpowers

  • Lesson Portfolio: The Cold War

 

ARC 2: Communism Around the Globe

  • Lesson Portfolio: Debate: Boycott of the 1980 Olympics

ARC 3: Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

  • Lesson Portfolio: Jigsaw Activity: Ethnic, political and economic impact of the Soviet breakup on former satellite countries

ARC 4: China Follows Its Own Path

  • Lesson Portfolio: Xu Wenli and the China Democracy Party

 

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UNIT TOPIC 2: Struggles for Democracy

ARC 1: Independence in India, Southeast Asia
and Africa

  • Lesson Portfolio: India and Pakistan in the Wake of the Mubai Attacks

ARC 2: Conflicts in the Middle East

  • Lesson Portfolio: After the Camp David Accords...

ARC 3: Latin American Democracies

  • Lesson Portfolio: Timeline - Mexico from 1917 to Present

 

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UNIT TOPIC 3: Global Interdependence

ARC 1: Science, Technology and
Global Development

  • Lesson Portfolio: Freedom or Property Rights?

ARC 2: Global Security Issues

  • Lesson Portfolio: The Global Security Matrix

 

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