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is a required course within the Social Studies Dept. Students generally take World & US in 9th grade and will earn 1/2 credit for successful completion of the course. The course is an overview of key events and people in World History.
Unit 1: Religion, Unification, & Conflict
DE Standard Addressed: History Standard #3: Students will
compare competing historical narratives by contrasting different historians' choice of questions, use and choice of sources, perspectives, beliefs, and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these factors contribute to different interpretations.
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Essential Question: How can the decisions historians make regarding sources of information, points of view, and their personal bias contribute to different perspectives of historical events?
DE Standard Addressed: History Standard #1: Students will
analyze historical materials to trace the development of an idea or trend across space or over a prolonged period of time in order to explain patterns of historical continuity and change.
Essential Question: How have ideas about religion, individual freedoms, and education change over time? How do some ideas remain the same over time?
DE Standard Addressed: History Standard #1: Students will analyze historical materials to trace the development of an idea or trend across space or over a prolonged period of time in order to explain patterns of historical continuity and change.
Essential Question: How did the meeting of the "Old World" and the "New World" alter human thinking?
DE Standard Addressed: History Standard #2b: Students will
examine and analyze primary and secondary sources in order to differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.
Essential Question: How do primary and secondary sources differ in the presentation of historical events?
DE Standard Addressed: History Standard #1: Students will analyze historical materials to trace the development of an idea or trend across space or over a prolonged period of time in order to explain patterns of historical continuity and change.
Essential Questions: How do revolutionary ideals concerning social equality, democracy, human rights, constitutionalism, or nationalism, transfer between differnt societies throughout the world, and over time?
DE Standard Addressed: History Standard #3: Students will
compare competing historical narratives by contrasting different historians' choice of questions, use and choice of sources, perspectives, beliefs, and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these factors contribute to different interpretations.
Essential Question: When conducting historical research, how does one critically evaluate sources to determine the most valuable to include in the final research product?
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