Course Master Document
| COURSE | World History: or "Sonata for history in A+ maybe" |
| Grade Levels | 9-12 |
| Key Words | World History |
| Unit Designer | Scott Keyes |
| Time Frame | one semester of approximately 18 weeks / 85 instructional days. |
| School District | (I'm open to suggestions) |
| School | (I'm open to suggestions) |
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Unit Design Packet | |
| CONTENTS | STATUS |
| [] Completed template Pages | [] Initial Draft Date |
| [] Completed blueprint for each performance task | [] revised draft date |
| [] Completed blueprint for other evidence | [] Peer Reviewed |
| [] Directions to students and teachers | [] Content Reviewed |
| [] List of Materials and Resources | [] Field Tested |
| [] Suggested Accommodations | [] Validated |
| [] Suggested extensions | [] Anchored |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| The course covers §113.33.
World History Studies of
the TEKS
The Sonata lesson strategy is to introduce the theme, then elaborate on it, and repeat it... in some ways this a more elegant and accurate way of saying "Bookending". This course is comprised of three major sections. The first of these is an introduction which is an extended "advance organizer" for the rest of the course as well as being a good assessment of student prior knowledge. this unit will superficially skim the whole of history from the current day back to pre-dawn of civilization. The next section will comprise the bulk of the instructional time , going forward from just before the dawn of civilization to the present day. time spent in this unit will be on a "squaring" algorithm in that the close we get to the modern day, the less "time" is covered in a given unit. at the end of this section we will essentially repeat the opening section, taking us from the present back into the past again, but hopefully this time with more insight and depth. this closing unit will also allow students to evaluate their own advance of knowledge and sophistication against their attempts at the beginning of the class. This design also prevents the trap of "running out of time" and failing to cover/rushing through a given section of history at the close of the course. The frequent and consistent use of GUSSET (Generic Universal Social Studies Evaluation Tool) will assist in providing coherence in instruction, focus and reinforcement. This Course design is also composed of several elements. The "Online Schoolhouse" serves as the student directed front end to which the Course Master Document is the back end. The Course Master Document is hierarchical, starting with the CMD index and calendar which link to the unit indexes and calendars, which link to the lesson plans. The lesson plans link to and are largely composed from building blocks in the Teaching Tactics Toolkit (TTT). The Course, Unit and lesson plan documents each contain internal links to an appropriate TEKS alignment document. |
| Unit | Concept | Content | Calendar Week# | Dates | TEKS alignment |
| UNIT 1 : | Your Past, Your Future and why you need to know this: From the present backwards to before civilization.. | Course Intro, Learning Skills, history skills, basic Geography , history/culture timelines, technology/economics timelines | 1-3 | ||
| UNIT 2: | pre-Civilization to the ancient world | ~40kBCE -0CE | 4-5 | ||
| UNIT 3 | declining Rome to re-birth | 0CE-1600CE | 6-8 | ||
| UNIT 4 | The birth of the modern world | 1600CE-1800CE | 8-9 | ||
| UNIT 5 | the 19th and 20th centuries | 1800CE-1996 | 10-11 | ||
| UNIT 6 | the 21st Century and beyond | 1996-present | 12-13 | ||
| UNIT 7 | Reprise | present-40kBCE | 13-18 |
| 1) Your decisions effect events. Decisions include
active/passive support/resistance/acceptance/rejection of ideas, causes
and concepts.
2) Events that become history have shaped who you are and will affect you and those you care about 3) Knowledge of history can help you make better decisions 4) Anyone's ignorance is everyone's danger. |
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