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Hello. My name is Jen Brennan. I have a B.S.E. in Secondary Social Studies Education and a M.S. in HR/Educational Leadership. My favorite subjects to learn and teach include psychology, sociology, early American history, and medieval European history.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Course Schedule (Tentative)

Course Schedule (Tentative) for 2014-2015 School Year
               
Unit 1:  Technological and Environmental Transformations, 8000 BCE – 600 BCE
Length:  7 days
Sterns Chapter Guide:
Chapter 1- From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations
Unit Test 1

Unit 2:  Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies (600 BCE – 600 CE)
Length:  5 weeks
Sterns Chapter Guide:
Chapter 2-  Classical Civilization: China
Chapter 3- Classical Civilization: India
Chapter 4- Classical Civilization in the Mediterranean: Greece and Rome
Chapter 5- The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 BCE
Unit Test 2

Unit 3:  Regional and Trans-regional Interactions  (600 CE – 1450 CE)
Length:  7 weeks  
Sterns Chapter Guide:
Chapter 6-The First Global Civilization: the Rise and Spread Islam
Chapter 7- Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia
Chapter 8- African Civilization and the Spread of Islam
Chapter 9- Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
Chapter 10- A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe
Chapter 11- The Americas of the Eve of Invasion
Chapter 12- Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties
Chapter13- The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Chapter 14- The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur
Chapter 15- The West and the Changing World Balance
Unit Test 3


Unit 4:  Global Interactions  (1450 CE – 1750 CE)
Length:  7 weeks
Sterns Chapter Guide: 16-22
Chapter 16-  The World Economy
Chapter 17- The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750
Chapter 18- The Rise of Russia
Chapter 19- Early Latin America
Chapter 20- Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter 21- The Muslims Empires
Chapter 22- Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change
Unit Test 4


Unit 5:  Industrialization and Global Integration (1750 CE – c. 1900 CE)
Length:  4 weeks
Sterns Chapter Guide:
Chapter 23-  The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914
Chapter 24-  Industrial and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
Chapter 25-  The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
Chapter 26-  Civilization in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
Chapter 27-  Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the World
Unit Test 5


Unit 6:  Accelerating Global Change and Realignments  (c. 1900 CE – present)
Length:  6 weeks 28-35
Sterns Chapter Guide:
Chapter 28-  Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order
Chapter 29-  The World in the 1920s: Challenges to European Dominance
Chapter 30-  The Great Depression and the Authoritarian Response
Chapter 31 – A Second Global Conflict and the End of European World Order 
Chapter 32- Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
Chapter 33-Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century
Chapter 34- Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
Chapter 35- Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
Unit Test 6

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