World History
Teacher: Aaron D. Ward
Telephone: (919) 560-3926
e-mail: aaron.ward@dpsnc.net
web: howirememberit-ward.blogspot.com
Availability: Tuesdays & Thursdays 4 – 5 PM or by appointment. (Subject to change.)
Required Materials
Supplies such as paper, pens and pencils have a tendency to run out. Please be sure that you child has their own supply of the materials each day.
History Journal: A single subject spiral notebook or composition book.
Three-Ring Binder: Used for handouts, loose-leaf notebook paper, and graded assignments.
College Ruled Paper: More lines per page. Used for non-History Journal writing assignments.
Blue/Black Pens: Other colors not appropriate for high school work.
#2 Pencils: Used for bubble tests.
Colored Pencils/Pens: Used for mapping and other activities.
Foundations
August 25 - September 2
This will be a slow week so as to allow you to learn the class procedures, systems, and foundational material for studying World History. When we start Unit I the pace and work load will quickly rise to the high school level.
Thursday, August 25
Welcome to World History
Course Procedures
Friday, August 26
Where Are We Now?: A Demographic Survey
Monday, August 29
Mapping The Globe
HW: Complete your map
Tuesday, August 30
The History Journal
- Warm Up
- Point of View Writing
HW: Complete a POV writing based on in class study.
Wednesday, August 31
Analyzing Primary and Secondary Source Documents
HW: Complete 3, 2, 1 Document Analysis
Thursday, September 1
Important Vocabulary: What? So What Index Cards
HW: Complete W/SW Cards & Study for Foundations Quiz
Friday, September 2
Foundations Quiz
Enrichment Reading
What? So What?
• artifact
• culture
• economy
• latitude
• communication
• primary source
• technology
• patriarchal
• longitude
• means of production
