Course Syllabus
Queens High School Of Teaching, Liberal Arts And The Sciences
Global 3&4 2012-2013 Room 504
INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION:
Name: Mrs. Koo
E-mail address: [email protected]
A. COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. Students will also demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live (local, national, and global), including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
The global history II course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with problems and materials in global history. This course prepares students for the New York State Regents Exam. Students should learn to assess historical material- their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance- and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This course should develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
B. The Regents Exam (Overview):
This course terminates in a regents exam. The Global History and Geography exam will be given in June 2014. The exact date will be announced before the end of the Fall Term. All students taking this course are expected to take the exam. There is no makeup date and lateness will not be tolerated. The exam is three hours and comprised of 50 multiple-choice questions, Document Based Questions, one Document Based essay, and one Thematic essay.
C. REQUIRED BOOKS:
World History: Patterns of Interaction. Illinois: McDougal Littel, 2003.
D. GRADING POLICY AND COURSE POLICIES
E. COURSE THEMATIC SEGMENTS
Unit 5- Absolutism to Revolution (1500-1900)
Chapter 21: Absolute Monarchs in Europe
Chapter 22: Enlightenment and Revolution
Chapter 23: The French Revolution and Napoleon
Chapter 24: Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West
Unit 6- Industrialism and the Race for Empire (1700-1914)
Chapter 25: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 26: An Age of Democracy and Progress
Chapter 27: Age of Imperialism
Chapter 28: Transformations Around the Globe
Unit 7- The World at War (1900-1945)
Chapter 29: The Great War
Chapter 30: Revolution and Nationalism
Chapter 31: Years of Crisis
Chapter 32: World War II
Unit 8- Perspectives on the Present (1945-Present)
Chapter 33: Restructuring the Postwar World
Chapter 34: The Colonies Become New Nations
Chapter 35: Struggles for Democracy
Chapter 36: Global Interdependence
Global 3&4 2012-2013 Room 504
INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION:
Name: Mrs. Koo
E-mail address: [email protected]
A. COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. Students will also demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live (local, national, and global), including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
The global history II course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with problems and materials in global history. This course prepares students for the New York State Regents Exam. Students should learn to assess historical material- their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance- and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This course should develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
B. The Regents Exam (Overview):
This course terminates in a regents exam. The Global History and Geography exam will be given in June 2014. The exact date will be announced before the end of the Fall Term. All students taking this course are expected to take the exam. There is no makeup date and lateness will not be tolerated. The exam is three hours and comprised of 50 multiple-choice questions, Document Based Questions, one Document Based essay, and one Thematic essay.
C. REQUIRED BOOKS:
World History: Patterns of Interaction. Illinois: McDougal Littel, 2003.
D. GRADING POLICY AND COURSE POLICIES
E. COURSE THEMATIC SEGMENTS
Unit 5- Absolutism to Revolution (1500-1900)
Chapter 21: Absolute Monarchs in Europe
Chapter 22: Enlightenment and Revolution
Chapter 23: The French Revolution and Napoleon
Chapter 24: Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West
Unit 6- Industrialism and the Race for Empire (1700-1914)
Chapter 25: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 26: An Age of Democracy and Progress
Chapter 27: Age of Imperialism
Chapter 28: Transformations Around the Globe
Unit 7- The World at War (1900-1945)
Chapter 29: The Great War
Chapter 30: Revolution and Nationalism
Chapter 31: Years of Crisis
Chapter 32: World War II
Unit 8- Perspectives on the Present (1945-Present)
Chapter 33: Restructuring the Postwar World
Chapter 34: The Colonies Become New Nations
Chapter 35: Struggles for Democracy
Chapter 36: Global Interdependence