Honors World History

Course Overview:

This course is a survey course of world history from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment through the present. It is for the highly motivated student who is willing to accept the challenge and in-depth nature of the course. It requires above average reading and comprehension skills, as well as above average writing ability. This course will meet the World History graduation requirement. Prerequisite: Placement will be dependent upon recommendation by 8th grade faculty. This class meets for one period daily for ½ unit of credit each semester.

Text Books:

McDougal Littell, Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction

Assessments:

First Quarter- Chapters 6-7 summative assessments, Formative assessments, classroom projects
Second Quarter- Chapters 8-11 summative assessments, Formative Assessment
Third Quarter- Chapters 12-14 summative assessments, Formative Assessment, classroom projects
Fourth Quarter- Chapters 15-17 summative assessments, Formative Assessment

 

First Quarter: Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, French Revolution

Standards/Learning Goals:

History:

1. Historical events provide opportunities to examine alternative courses of action.
2. The use of primary and secondary sources of information includes an examination of the credibility of each source.
3. Historians develop theses and use evidence to support or refute positions.
4. Historians analyze cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relations.
5. The Scientific Revolution impacted religious, political and cultural institutions by challenging how people viewed the world.
6. Enlightenment thinkers applied reason to discover natural laws guiding human nature in social, political and economic systems and institutions.
7. Enlightenment ideas challenged practices related to religious authority, absolute rule and mercantilism.
8. Enlightenment ideas on the relationship of the individual and the government influenced the American Revolution, French Revolution and Latin American wars for independence.

Second Quarter: Latin American Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, Imperialism

Standards/Learning Goals:

8. Enlightenment ideas on the relationship of the individual and the government influenced the American Revolution, French Revolution and Latin American wars for independence.
9. Industrialization had social, political and economic effects on Western Europe and the world.
10. Imperial expansion had political, economic and social roots.
11. Imperialism involved land acquisition, extraction of raw materials, spread of Western values and maintenance of political control.
12. The consequences of imperialism were viewed differently by the colonizers and the colonized.
13. Advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives, but also had negative consequences.

Third Quarter: Imperialism in Japan and China, World War I, Nationalism and Revolutions

Standards/Learning Goals:

10. Imperial expansion had political, economic and social roots.
11. Imperialism involved land acquisition, extraction of raw materials, spread of Western values and maintenance of political control.
12. The consequences of imperialism were viewed differently by the colonizers and the colonized.
13. Advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives, but also had negative consequences.
14. The causes of World War I included militarism, imperialism, nationalism and alliances.
15. The consequences of World War I and the worldwide depression set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, aggressive Axis expansion and the policy of appeasement, which in turn led to World War II.

Fourth Quarter: Years between WWI and II, World War II, Cold War

Standards/Learning Goals:

15. The consequences of World War I and the worldwide depression set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, aggressive Axis expansion and the policy of appeasement, which in turn led to World War II.
16. Oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust, the state-sponsored mass murder of Jews and other groups, during World War II.
17. World War II devastated most of Europe and Asia, led to the occupation of Eastern Europe and Japan, and began the atomic age.
18. The United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers and competed for global influence.
19. Treaties and agreements at the end of World War II changed national boundaries and created multinational organizations.
20. Religious diversity, the end of colonial rule and rising nationalism have led to regional conflicts in the Middle East.
21. Post War global politics led to the rise of nationalist movements in Africa and Southeast Asia.

 

*Numbers indicate the exact Ohio Department of Education content standards for World History.