Lesson Plans for Mar 16 - Mar 20, '09 ----->




WORLD ISSUES


Textbook: World History: Connections to Today


Monday

Readings Week

Students will be testing on Tue, Wed, Thur. Work on readings which they began last week. Articles will be given out Monday. They are due back on Friday. Articles cover French Revolution, Robespierre, and Napoleon.



Objectives

The students will:1). Complete the readings on French Revolution. 2). Follow directions for each reading; ie. highlight and underline main ideas in each paragraph, or short answer.


Read pages:NA

Homework:Be sure to have charts, and essays, homework, etc. completed for 9 weeks cutoff .


Remember to write a journal entry

Tuesday
TESTING=PASSA

Wednesday
TESTING-PASSA

Thursday
TESTING-PASSA

Remember to write a journal entry

Friday

CURRENT EVENTS

Discuss current events for the past week in class. All students should participate, by introducing an event, or contributing to one already presented for discussion. Events may involve international, national, state, local, or school news. Events should be "current"..ie. have happened recently.

Each student will select news articles, of interest to them, from the Tribune Review and read silently during the class period. Students may be asked to write summaries of their selections, or discuss the main points, with the class, as time permits.

Objectives

The students will:1.) Discuss current events for the past week. 2). Present an issue, or contribute to the discussion. 3). Read articles of interest to them in the newspaper.


Materials

Tribune Review
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Procedures

People seated at back of each row will hand out newspapers for their row.

Students will discuss current events,then read silently from newspaper until a few minutes before the bell rings.

People seated at the front of each row will collect and stack papers on shelf at back of room at end of period.
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Read pages:(see Thursday's assignment)

Homework:(see Thursday's assignment)

Project:

Tests

All tests will be given on dates assigned by Admin.
Tests are usually scantron type tests. That is, Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, and/or Short Answer.
All "make up" tests are essay type. Make up day is, in class on Friday, unless other arrangements are made. All tests MUST be made up NO LATER than 2 weeks prior to the end of the grading period.

Notebooks

Notebooks are required for this class and must be brought to class every day. A grade is given each 9 weeks for the notebook. Be sure yours is up-to-date and all work is in it. Notebook checks are unannounced, so be sure you have yours with you EACH day for class. No locker visits are permitted to go get it.

Homework

LATE HOMEWORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. If you are legally absent from school, for each day of school that you miss, you will have that same number of days to make up homework. For example, if you are absent from school for 3 days, homework must be turned in NO LATER than 3 days AFTER the due date.

All homework MUST have a heading: your first name and your last name, the name of the class, and period, and the date.

This is the heading:

YOUR NAME: First AND Last

WI-(your class period)

Date

Failure to use the complete heading, as indicated here, will result in loss of points.

PENNSYLVANIA STANDARDS FOR WORLD HISTORY


8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development


8.1.12

12th Grade


Standards used in the lessons are indicated by *

A. Evaluate Chronological Thinking


*1. Sequential order of historical narrative
*2. Continuity and change
3. Context for events

B. Synthesize and Evaluate Historical Sources


1. Literal meaning of historical passages
*2. Data in historical and contemporary maps, graphs, and tables
3. Different historical perspectives
*4. Data presented in maps, graphs, and tables
*5. Visual data presented in historical evidence

C. Evaluate Historical Interpretation of Events


1. Impact of opinions on the perception of facts
*2. Issues and problems in the past
*3. Multiple points of view
*4. Illustrations in historical stories and sources
*5. Connections between causes and results
6. Author or source of historical narratives' points of view
*7. Central issue

D. Synthesize Historical Research


*1. Historical event (time and place)
*2. Facts, folklore, and fiction
3. Historical questions
4. Primary sources
5. Secondary sources
6. Conclusions (e.g.,Senior projects, research papers, debates)
7. Credibility of evidence
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8.2 WORLD HISTORY


8.2.12

12th Grade


A. Evaluate the significance of individuals and goups who made major political and cultural contributions to world history since 1450


*1. Political and military leaders (e.g., Asukia Daud, Simon Bolivar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mao Zedong)
*2. Cultural and commercial leaders (e.g., Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Garcia Marquiez, Akira Kurosa, Christopher Columbus)
*3. Innovators and Reformers (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Louis-Joseph Papineau, Mohandas Gandhi, Alexander Fleming)

B. Evaluate Historical Documents, Material Artifacts, and Historic Sites Important to World History since 1450


1. Documents, writings, and oral traditions (e.g., Declaration of the International Conference on Sanctions Against South Africa, Monroe Doctrine, Communist Manifesto, Luther's Ninety-five Theses
2. Artifacts, architecture, and historic places (e.g., Robben Island, New York World Trade Center, Hiroshima Ground Zero Memorial, Nazi concentration camps)
3. Historic districts (e.g., Timbuktu, center of Mexico City, and Xochimilco, Taj Mahal and gardens, Kremlin and Red Square)

C. Evaluate How Continuity and Change throughout History has Impacted Belief Systems and Religions, Commerce and Industry, Innovations, settlement patterns, social organizqtion, transportation and roles of women since 1450.


1. Africa
2. Americas
3. Asia
*4. Europe

D. Evaluate How Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and Organizations Impacted World History from 1450 to present in Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe


*1. Domestic instability
*2. Ethnic and racial relations
3. Labor relations
*4. Immigration and Migration
*5. Military Conflicts
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A. Evaluate Chronological Thinking


*1. Sequential order of historical narrative
*2. Continuity and change
*3. Context for events

B. Synthesize and Evaluate Historical Sources


*1. Literal meaning of historical passages

*2. Data in historical and contemporary maps, graphs, and tables

*3. Different historical perspectives

*4. Data presented in maps, graphs, and tables

*5. Visual data presented in historical evidence

C. Evaluate Historical Interpretation of Events


*1. Impact of opinions on the perception of facts

*2. Issues and problems in the past

*3. Multiple points of view

*4. Illustrations in historical stories and sources

*5. Connections between causes and results

*6. Author or source of historical narratives' points of view

*7. Central issue

D. Synthesize Historical Research


*1. Historical event (time and place)

*2. Facts, folklore, and fiction

*3. Historical questions

*4. Primary sources

*5. Secondary sources

*6. Conclusions

*7. Credibility of evidence

8.2 WORLD HISTORY


8.2.12

12th Grade


A. Evaluate the significance of individuals and groups who made major political and cultural contributions to world history since 1450


*1. Political and military leaders
*3. Cultural and commercial leaders
*4. Innovators and Reformers

B. Evaluate Historical Documents, Material Artifacts, and Historic Sites Important to World History since 1450


*1. Documents, writings, and oral traditions
*2. Artifacts, architecture, and historic places
*3. Historic districts

C. Evaluate How Continuity and Change throughout History has Impacted Belief Systems and Religions, Commerce and Industry, Innovations, settlement patterns, social organizqtion, transportation and roles of women since 1450.


*1. Africa
*2. Americas
*3. Asia
*4. Europe

D. Evaluate How Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and Organizations Impacted World History from 1450 to present in Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe


*1. Domestic instability
*2. Ethnic and racial relations
*3. Labor relations
*4. Immigration and Migration
*5. Military Conflicts
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