NOTE: Unit 1 Quiz 1 Tomorrow, What So What Index Cards are a "ticket assignment" which means that the student's grade on the quiz is a zero until the W/SW cards are turned in and complete.
World History
Unit I Syllabus
Week 1
Tuesday, September 6 Periodization & The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution Intro: “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 4 - 15
Wednesday, September 7 The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution: Women and the Origins of Patriarchy
HW: Read / Take Notes on handout & pages 17 – 23 in textbook.
Thursday, September 8 Characteristics of Civilization
HW; Study for Quiz and complete What? So What? Cards
Friday, September 9 Unit 1 Quiz 1
DUE: What? So What? Cards
HW; Get caught up or work ahead
Week 1 What? So What?
• historian • archaeology • animism • surplus • civilization
• anthropology • nomad • Neolithic Revolution • traditional economy • polytheistic
Week 2
Monday, September 12 Four River Valley Civilizations
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 30 - 43
Tuesday, September 13 Ancient Sumer and Mesopotamian Empires
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 44 - 56
Wednesday, September 14 Egyptian Civilization
HW: Review and works on WSW Cards
Thursday, September 15 Comparative Study: Mesopotamia and Egypt
HW; Study for Quiz and complete What? So What? Cards
Friday, September 16 Unit 1 Quiz 2
DUE: What? So What? Cards
HW; Get caught up or work ahead
Week 2 What? So What?
• Mesopotamia • Sumer • Hammurabi • Nebuchadnezzar • Zoroaster
• hierarchy • cuneiform • civil law • barter economy • colony
Week 3
Monday, September 19 Early India
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 68 -91
Tuesday, September 20 Belief Systems Born in India: Hinduism & Buddhism
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 92 - 100
Wednesday, September 21 Ancient China: The Mandate of Heaven
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 101 - 107
Thursday, September 22 Ancient China: Confucianism and Legalism
HW; Study for Quiz and complete What? So What? Cards
Friday, September 23 Unit 1 Quiz 3
DUE: What? So What? Cards
HW; Get caught up or work ahead
Week 3 What? So What?
• Harrapa • Brahman • reincarnation • Asoka • Laozi • Shi Huangdi
• Vedas • atman • dynastic cycle • filial piety • warlord • Siddhartha Gautama
Week 4
Monday, September 26 Ancient China: The Han Dynasty
HW; Study for Test
Tuesday, September 27 Review
HW; Study for Test
Wednesday, September 28 Review
HW; Study for Test
Thursday, September 29 Unit I Test
