10TH & 11TH Grade History
WORLD HISTORY FOR US ALL
https://whfua.history.ucla.edu/default.php
This year I am trying a new approach to teaching the subject of World History. We will be using an online curriculum that will give my students the knowledge of world history, geography, and contemporary affairs. A world history education should include the whole world and not just part of it. The subject is challenging, however, because it embraces humanity in general, not just one nation or cultural tradition, and because the time scope—from the Paleolithic era to the present—is immense. To make sense of the past, we have to organize the investigation into manageable pieces. We must define specific historical topics, questions, problems, time periods, and themes, then explore them in careful ways. Students, however, should not lose sight of the main subject: the story of how humans have behaved, thought, and interacted across the ages. We will be exploring Units and Era's from 3 perspectives Panorama, Landscape and Up-Close. We will engage in a lot of group discussions and will continually refer to three essential questions after every Unit/Era.
Humans and the Environment
How has the changing relationship between human beings and the physical and natural environment affected human life from early times to the present? Human beings are inhabitants of the biosphere and their history is inseparable from it. This is as true today as it was 200,000 years ago.
Humans and Other Humans
Why have relations among humans become so complex since early times? We live in a world of intense, complicated, and diverse relationships among billions of people. Throughout most of its history our species has lived in small, scattered communities of foragers and hunters. Questions about the ways in which humans have multiplied on the earth and come to relate to one another in such a variety of ways are fundamental to historical investigation.
Humans and Ideas
How have human views of the world, nature, and the cosmos changed? History is not only the study of "what happened" but also about the ways in which humans have thought about, questioned, interpreted, and represented (in words, pictures, movies, and so on) what their senses tell them about the world and the universe. Ideas influence historical developments and, conversely, events shape ideas as humans strive to make sense of change.
Periodically throughout the year we will also do some in-depth research and learning outside of this curriculum on important World History topics.
ECHOES & REFLECTIONS
https://echoesandreflections.org/
This website will also be used to teach and inspire the class on the topic of Holocaust Education.
EVERY OTHER YEAR STUDENTS WILL TAKE MODERN US HISTORY
This history class is the study of American History from the American Revolution all the way up through present day. They will learn how to focus on the key ideas in American History in order to understand how we as a nation go where we are today. Grades in this class will be determined by homework, tests, key terms, quizzes, class participation, projects, papers and Upfront worksheets.
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