World History A — Ideas, Revolutions, Industry and Empire is the first semester of Grade 10 Modern World History, built on California History-Social Science standards 10.1-10.5 and the CCSS literacy standards for history/social studies.
Four units: Ancient Roots and the Revolutions of England and America, The French Revolution, Napoleon and the Revolutions of the Americas, The Industrial Revolution and Its Critics, and New Imperialism and the Great War. The course is taught as world history: the Haitian Revolution and Simón Bolívar stand beside Paris and Philadelphia; Meiji Japan beside Manchester; and Adwa, the Maji Maji war, the Indian Rebellion, the Philippine Revolution and Sun Yat-sen’s movement beside the Berlin Conference. Students write two document-based argument essays, take part in a structured academic controversy on Napoleon, and build a digital museum exhibit on the human costs of the First World War, including the Armenian Genocide.
Sources: OpenStax World History, Volume 2: from 1400 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; referenced, not reproduced) as the reference text, and public-domain primary sources: Plato and Aristotle (Jowett translations), the King James Bible, Locke, Montesquieu (Nugent translation), Rousseau (Cole translation), the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Adam Smith, Marx and Engels (1888 English translation), Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, Kipling, Wilfred Owen and U.S. and British government records. Twentieth-century works still under copyright are summarized, never reproduced, and students are told where to read them.
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Unit 1: Ancient Roots and the Revolutions of England and America5
- 1.1Law, Reason and Faith — Athens, Rome and Jerusalem50 mins
- 1.2Philosopher-Kings or the Rule of Law? Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny50 mins
- 1.3Seminar — From Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution50 mins
- 1.4Workshop — The American Revolution and Its Echoes Abroad50 mins
- 1.5Performance Task — Ideas into Revolution: A Document-Based Argument150 mins
- Unit 2: The French Revolution, Napoleon and the Revolutions of the Americas5
- 2.1Why France Exploded in 178950 mins
- 2.2From Constitutional Monarchy to Terror to Empire50 mins
- 2.3Seminar — Whose Revolution? Haiti, Mexico and Bolívar’s America50 mins
- 2.4Workshop — Nationalism from Napoleon to 184850 mins
- 2.5Performance Task — Structured Academic Controversy: Napoleon and the Revolution150 mins
- Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution and Its Critics5
- 3.1Why Britain First? Coal, Capital, Markets and Ideas50 mins
- 3.2Steam, Steel, Electricity and Germs — Technology Remakes the World50 mins
- 3.3Seminar — Who Paid for Industrialization? Work, Slavery, Migration and Unions50 mins
- 3.4Workshop — Capitalism and Its Challengers, from Owen to Marx to Blake50 mins
- 3.5Performance Task — Progress and Its Price: A Document-Based Argument150 mins
- Unit 4: New Imperialism and the Great War5
- 4.1Why Empire? Industry, Rivalry and the Language of Race50 mins
- 4.2Resistance and Independence — The Colonized Respond50 mins
- 4.3Seminar — How Did Europe Go to War in 1914?50 mins
- 4.4Workshop — Fronts, Turning Points and Geography of the Great War50 mins
- 4.5Performance Task — Digital Museum Exhibit: The World’s War, 1914-1918200 mins
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