TOPICS AND AREAS OF STUDY. (CONDENSED VERSION OF WHAT STUDENTS WILL LEARN)
FIRST 9 WEEKS
1. How did migration, religion, government, trade, and technology help shape the ancient world?
2. How does historical inquiry help shape our understanding of the past and how it relates to the world today?
SECOND 9 WEEKS
3. What did the pharaohs of ancient Egypt accomplish, and how did they do it?
Document Based Question: How did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?
THIRD 9 WEEKS
FOURTH 9 WEEKS
Document Based Question: Citizenship in Athens and Rome - Which Was the Better System
FIRST 9 WEEKS
1. How did migration, religion, government, trade, and technology help shape the ancient world?
2. How does historical inquiry help shape our understanding of the past and how it relates to the world today?
- What Does a Historian Do?
- Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution
- Mesopotamia City-States
SECOND 9 WEEKS
3. What did the pharaohs of ancient Egypt accomplish, and how did they do it?
Document Based Question: How did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?
- Ancient Egypt and Kush
- Ancient India
THIRD 9 WEEKS
- Ancient China
- Ancient Greece
FOURTH 9 WEEKS
Document Based Question: Citizenship in Athens and Rome - Which Was the Better System
- Ancient Rome