History of the United States and New York 4. History of the World 5. Civics, Citizenship, and Government. Geography All students are expected to meet the following grading criteria for the class. World History (1.0) American History (1.0) American Government (.5cr) Economics (.5cr) Other Courses HOPE- 1 Credit PA/PF - 1 Credit Electives- 8 Credits World Language- Recommended Other Requirements: Passing score on the 10th grade FSA Reading Passing score on Algebra 1 EOC A cumulative unweighted GPA of.
Welcome Class Of 20132014world History Notes
Welcome To World History!
The purpose of this World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with differnt types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. World History highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. World History emphasizes relevant factual knowledge used in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicatity discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course, along with consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.World History focuses primarily on developing the four History Thinking Skills, and teaching students to analyze history form there. From taking World History, students will be able to:
- Craft Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence- developing the ability to make inferences based on different information and crafting arguments about of that information.
- Use Chronological Reasoning- understanding that sequences of events play a key role in understanding and analyzing history. Students will be able to differentiate between long term effects and isolated incidents, and the different impacts of the two.
- Use Comparison and Contextualization- Comparison and contextualization are useful to more than just World History. Learning hose to do both will help students to solve problems in their everyday life as well as in an academic setting.
- Conduct Historical Interpretation and Synthesis- developing the ability to describe, analyze, and evaluate interpretations of the past as revealed through primary and secondary sources.
Student will also study four separate themes of world history:
- Theme 1: Interaction between Humans and Environment. Students will learn about diseases and the demographics the affect, the migration of humans across time, patterns of settlement around the world, and the importance of technology in developing civilizations.
- Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures. Students will develop an understanding of religions, belief systems, science and technologies effect on government, and the arts and architecture’s effect on the general population.
- Theme 3:State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict. Students will learn about political structures and their forms of governance, empires, nationalism, and revolutions across different types of government.
- Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems. Students will gain an appreciation for agricultural and pastoral production, trade and commerce patterns, labor systems, and industrialization.
