World History: Origins Practice Progression Placement
Practice Progressions PlacementWORLD HISTORY ORIGINS COURSEUnit 1Origins of HistoryUnit 2Early HumansUnit 3Early Agrarian SocietiesUnit 4Empires and Belief SystemsUnit 5Regional WebsUnit 6The First Global AgeUnit 7The Long Nineteenth CenturyUnit 8Global ConflictUnit 9GlobalizationUNIT DRIVING QUESTIONUnit 1 Problem: How does changing perspectives change our understanding of history?Unit 2 Problem: What caused some humans to shift from foraging to farming and what were the effects of this change?Unit 3 Problem: How did complex societies develop and how did they impact humans inside and outside these communities?Unit 4 Problem: How did the emergence of portable belief systems change human communities and networks?Unit 5 Problem: How do human systems restructure after catastrophe?Unit 6 Problem: How did the first ongoing connections between the hemispheres change the world?Unit 7 Problem: What were the engines of change that created our “modern” world?Unit 8 Problem: What caused the global conflicts from 1914 to 1991, and how did people experience this period of global war?Unit 9 Problem: How has globalization made our lives today more interconnected while also producing new divisions and conflicts?Lesson LocationWriting2.3: Identifying Claim and Focus2.4: Pre-Writing: Claim and Focus3.1: Post-Writing: Claim and Focus3.2: Identifying Analysis and Evidence3.5: Pre-Writing: Analysis and Evidence4.1: Post-Writing: Analysis and Evidence4.3: Identifying Organization and Language/Style5.1: Revising Claim and Focus5.2: Pre-Writing: Organization and Language/Style6.1: Post-Writing: Organization and Language/Style6.3: Revising Analysis and Evidence7.1: Revising Organization and Language/Style8.1: Peer-Editing9.6: Self-EditingClaim Testing1.2: Introduction2.2: Authority3.2: Evidence5.5: The Islamic World7.10: Imperialism8.6: Global Conflict9.6: Globalization Causation2. 4: Introduction2.5: From Foraging to Complex Societies3.3: Population Growth5.2: Autopsy of an Empire8.6: World War IIComparison2.4: Life in the Neolithic and Today4.2: Belief Systems5.4: Women in Medieval Europe and Song China7.6: Egypt and Japan8.4: Mexican and Russian Revolutions9.5: Rights DocumentsContextualization3.5: Introduction3.5: Agrarian Societies5.7: Mansa Musa7.9: Opium Wars8.5: The Great DepressionContinuity and Change Over Time (CCOT)4.5: Introduction4.5: Agrarian Societies to Empires and Beliefs5.6: Empires and Beliefs to Regional Webs 6.9: Regional Webs to the First Global Age7.10: The First Global Age to the Long Nineteenth Century9.7: Unit ComparisonsSourcing3.3: Introduction4.5: Rome and Han Dynasty China5.4: An Imperial Edict Restraining Officials from Evil6.8: Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire7.8: Why Was Slavery Abolished?7.9: Differing Perspectives on Imperialism