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Course Profile   World History: The West and the World (CHY4C), Grade 12, College Preparation, Public

 

Course Overview

Policy Document:  The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, Canadian and World Studies, 2000.

Prerequisite:  Any University or University/College Preparation course in
                                    Canadian and World Studies, English, or Social Sciences and Humanities

Course Description

Students explore the history of the world since the 16th Century, and the interaction between the emerging West and other regions of the world. Students learn about a variety of economic, social, and political systems and the changes they have undergone over time. Students acquire sound skills of historical inquiry and develop an appreciation of the forces that have formed the modern world.

Course Notes

The history of the West and its relationship with the world has held a fascination for students of history. Stories of exploration, technological development, art, philosophy, and intellectual thought, larger-than-life personalities, revolutions, the development of world powers and their global impact provide a rich foundation for students to investigate the history of the West and the world. By having opportunities to develop methods of historical inquiry, students are able to critically analyse historical evidence and events in order to understand the nature of the interaction, as well as the impact of the West on other regions of the world. Students are able to see the forces that have influenced and shaped world history at the local, national, and global levels.

While World History: The West and the World is a course designed to build on the foundations students established in the Grade 11 World History to the 16th Century, CHW3M course, the reality is that not all students will have taken this course, and those that have may not have studied events beyond 1500. Therefore, it is incumbent on the teacher to review key people, events, and concepts evident in the West at this critical juncture between 1500 and 1600. In addition, students have explored 20th Century history from a Canadian perspective in Canadian History in the Twentieth Century, Grade 10 Academic/Applied. Prior knowledge of these events will influence how teachers approach Unit 4. However, events in this course are presented from a global rather than a Canadian perspective and thus, the activities should be new to the students. In addition, Twentieth Century History: Global and Regional Perspectives, Grade 11, Open, presents a global perspective of 20th Century world history and could overlap with activities in Unit 4.

The importance of chronology to the study of history is emphasized in the Ministry documents and is reflected in the organization of the units for the course. Each unit represents roughly 100 years of history with the dividing point in each time frame a turning point or watershed in history. Unit 1 opens with the Renaissance and bridges into Unit 2 with the death of Louis XIV. Unit 3 opens with events following the Congress of Vienna and focuses on key events in the 19th Century. World War I marks the end of an era and catalyses the key forces of the 20th Century.

Historians recognize the importance of assessing both change and continuity, and this is often best explored and most meaningfully analysed through the lens of key themes. Therefore, although the course units are organized chronologically, students study major themes within each of the units. These themes surround issues such as The Arts, Politics and the Military, Science and Technology, Socio-Economics, Key Individuals, and Global Connections. The study of cause and effect contributes to an understanding of change and continuity in world history. Students examine how key individuals and groups shape history. Students explore the effects of new technologies on daily life and the uniqueness of social, economic, and political structures and how these structures have evolved and been applied abroad. It is paramount that global issues be included so that the course moves from the traditional eurocentric model to one that embodies the West and the world. Major themes are addressed in each unit and in the culminating activity in each unit. Furthermore, these themes are bound together in the Course Culminating Activity, News Documentary: Retro Review.

The course focuses on skills associated with activities such as group work, role-play, script writing, poster-making, television or radio production, conducting interviews, writing letters and reports, and the use of the Internet. Through the various activities, students develop skills associated with historical studies. Students formulate questions for research and conduct research in reference books, audio-visual material, and Internet sites. Students learn to communicate effectively through the use of debates, role-plays, interviews, group presentations, short reports, and essays. They learn to develop a point of view and to support that point of view with specific information. The methods of historical inquiry have been integrated throughout the five units of study.

Course Culminating Activity: “News Documentary: Retro-Review”

It is crucial that teachers become familiar with the Course Culminating Activity outlined in Unit 5, since preparation for this activity is ongoing throughout the course and should be introduced in Unit 1. Students select or are assigned a specific thematic area. During each unit, students collect data and add to their tracking folder. In Unit 5, along with other students who researched the same theme, they prepare a “News Documentary: Retro-Review” presenting a retrospective of the thematic area over the past 500 years, from a global perspective, as well as make projections of future trends. Students role-play “experts.” The show can be videotaped or performed before a live audience of history students, but either way the students must prepare the show as if it were a real television documentary, scripting and story-boarding each component. The teacher may enlist the aid of Media and/or Communication Technology students to assist with the videotaping and editing of the shows.

Units:  Titles and Times

Unit 1

1600–1715 – Foundations and Institutions Challenged

23 hours

Unit 2

1715–1815 – The Enlightenment to Napoleon

23 hours

Unit 3

1815–1914 – A Century of Political, Social and Intellectual Forces Gone Awry

22 hours

* Unit 4

1914–Present – A Century of Destruction and Reconstruction

28 hours

Unit 5

Culminating Activity

14 hours

* This unit is fully developed in this Course Profile.

 

Unit Overviews

Unit 1:  Foundations and Institutions Challenged 1600–1715

Time:  23 hours

Unit Description

Students explore the foundations of European Civilizations and the forces challenging them during this period. Students explore the notion of Rebirth and Reform through the analysis of key figures of the Renaissance and Reformation presented in a brief oral report. They analyse the political institution of Absolutism through a Case Study of Louis XIV and the Bourbon Dynasty and discover the notion of Constitutionalism through the preparation of a time line of the English Civil War period. The role of religion and the challenges faced by the church are presented in an exploration of wars of religion and the trials presented by the Scientific Revolution. Students write an editorial which reflects the attitudes of the Church, scientists, and the wider world to the Scientific Revolution. The West and its impact on the world through colonialism and mercantilism are assessed through a writing in role checklist report of an explorer assessing the merits of expanding into a selected colony. The Culminating Activity for the unit involves the assessment of a variety of explorers’ roles in history through a role-play and interview activity as well as a Unit test. Students are introduced to the Course Culminating Activity and are given time to start their Tracking Folder.

Unit Overview Chart

K/U = Knowledge/Understanding     T/I = Thinking/Inquiry      A = Application     C = Communication

Cluster

Learning Expectations

Assessment Categories

Focus/Activity

1

COV.03, CO3.04, CCV.01, CC1.03, CC1.04, CCV.02, CC2.03, CC3.03, CHV.01, CH1.01, CHV.03, CH3.01, CH3.04, SEV.01, SE1.03, HIV. 01, HI1.01

K/U
T/I
C

Rebirth and Reform in the Renaissance and Reformation

Student presentations of key individuals of the Renaissance and Reformation reflecting on how they represented “rebirth” or “reform”

2

COV.02, CO2.01, COV.03, CO3.03, CCV.01, CC1.02, CC1.03, CCV.02, CC2.01, CCV.03, CC3.02, CHV.01, CH1.02, SEV.03, SE3.01, HIV.02, HI2.04

K/U
T/I

C

Political/Military Developments – Case Study

Louis XIV and the Bourbon Dynasty, a Case Study of Absolutism and Primary Source Document analysis

3

COV.01, CO1.01, COV.03, CO3.01, CCV.01, CC1.01, CCV.02, CC2.03, CCV.03, CC3.03, CHV. 04, CH4.03, SEV.01, SE1.01, SE1.03, HIV.02, HI2.01, HIV.03, HI3.03

K/U
A
C

Political/Spiritual Issues – Discussion

The Role of Religion in the 17th Century

Time Line

Students prepare a time line of the English Civil War and the development of Constitutionalism

4

COV.02, CO2.01, COV.03, CO3.03, CCV.01, CC1.01, CC1.02, CC1.03, CCV.02, CC2.01, CC2.02, CHV.04, CH4.04, SEV.01, SE1.02, SE1.03, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03

K/U
T/I
C
A

Science/Technology/Spiritual Issues – “On Trial”: Galileo and Heliocentricism vs. the Established Church

Students role-play a journalist or observer at the trial and write a news report for a paper representing different interests, e.g., “Catholic Record,” “Scientists for Freedom of Thought,” “Islamic Record,” Asian Review,” “Chinese Daily.” Students reflect their “bias” in the paper.

5

COV.01, CO1.01, CO1.02, COV.02, CO2.01, CO2.02, CO2.03, CCV.01, CC1.01, CC1.02, CC1.04, CCV.03, CC3.01, CC3.03, CHV.01, CH1.02, CH1.03, CHV.02, CH2.01, HIV.01, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03

K/U
T/I

Economic Issues – The Age of Exploration and the Rise of the Middle Class

Map Work

Analysis of mercantilism and map work of exploration and discovery. Writing in role as an explorer, students prepare a checklist of why their monarch should include the country visited in their Colonial Empire. In checklist include a category “indigenous response to western contact.”

6

COV.01, CO1.01, CO1.02, COV.02, CO2.01, CO2.02, CO2.03, CCV.01, CC1.01, CC1.02, CC1.04, CCV.03, CC3.03, HIV. 02, HI2.04, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03

K/U
T/I
C
A

The World “On Trial” – The Consequences of Exploration

Students research an individual or group associated or affected by exploration and contact (e.g., Indigenous people, settlers, explorers, monarchs, merchants, etc.). Students assume the role of a “Roving Reporter” and interview the key individuals and groups. Based on the data collected the students assess the impact of exploration and contact on the West and the wider world. Students write a unit test to synthesize material from this unit. Time is allocated for students to start their “Tracking Folder” for the “Retro-Review” Course culminating activity.

 

Unit 2:  The Enlightenment and Napoleon 1715–1815

Time:  23 hours

Unit Description

Students explore the major intellectual, political, economic, and social changes between 1715 and 1815. Students explore the evolution of political thought and the nature of “Enlightenment” thinking through the analysis of key writings of the day. They analyse and assess the impact of mercantilism and colonialism by mapping and assessing its expansion. Global concerns emerge as students develop an awareness of the impact and consequences of colonial expansion. Changes in social trends are explored through brief dramatizations. Students utilize the concept of cause and effect in an exploration of the causes of the American and French revolutions. Students employ critical thinking skills in determining similarities and differences in the two revolutions. Students explore key individuals and their impact on history using the “great person theory” as applied to Napoleon Bonaparte and his role in French history. The unit culminating activity involves the preparation of an Enlightenment Retrospective Bulletin Board Display. Students are assigned a key area at the start of the unit and prepare an item to be placed on the board. At the end of the unit the bulletin board is used by students to develop conclusions regarding the overall impact of the Enlightenment on Economics, Technology, Social, Political, Intellectual Thought, and Global Issues. Students add to their Tracking Folder for the Course culminating Retro-Review.

Unit Overview Chart

Cluster

Learning Expectations

Assessment Categories

Focus/Activity

1

CCV.01, CC1.03, CHV.01, CHV.03, CH1.01, CH3.03, CH3.04; SEV.03, SE3.02

K/U
T/I

The Enlightened Mind
Students read an excerpt from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels or view a media version and discuss the elements of the 17th century world which were being satirized. Comparisons are made with modern satire.

2

CCV.01, CC1.02, CC1.03, CHV.01, CH1.01, CH1.02, CHV.04, CH4.02, SEV.03, SE3.01, SE3.02, SE3.03, HIV.01, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03, HIV.04, HI4.03

K/U
T/I
C

Evolution of Political Thought – Jigsaw Activity

Students look at short primary source excerpts (or summaries) of Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Richelieu/Mazarin. Expert groups complete an organizer, which looks at time period, country of origin, nature of man, role of government, etc. Findings are shared in home groups.

Political Spectrum

Teacher-directed lesson outlines left, centre, and right. (reactionism, liberalism, conservatism, radicalism)

Political Spectrum at work

An analysis of Enlightened Despotism, Absolutism, Constitutional Monarchy using student role play dramatization/dialogue

3

COV.02, CO2.01, CO2.02, CHV.02, CH2.03, CCV.01, CC1.04, CHV.01, CH1.02, SEV.02, SE2.01, SE2.03, HIV.01, HI1.03, HIV.03, HI3.01

K/U
T/I
A
C

The Evolution of the “Global Village” Economic Thought
Students explore key features of Mercantilism and compare these to new ideas of laissez-faire as developed by Adam Smith.

Communication/Technology/Agriculture

A map activity allows the students to see the activities of European nations in the broader world. Students in groups map the flow of natural resources and finished products to show how mercantilism and the world economy functioned. Students analyse the maps and draw conclusions regarding the nature of mercantilism and who benefits.

The West and The World

In small groups, students read a short passage chronicling the West’s relationship to a specific region of the world at this time. In a chart, the attitudes of the West to the region and the attitude of the region to the West are recorded. Data is shared with class. Students write a short paragraph communicating conclusions about the impact of mercantilism globally.

4

CCV.01, CC1.02, CCV.02, CC2.01, SEV.01, SE1.04, SEV.02, SE2.01, SEV.03, SE3.02, SEV.04, SE4.01, HIV.01, HI1.02, HIV.03, HI3.01

K/U
T/I
C
A

The Enlightenment and Social Trends

Using a variety of sources, students in small groups prepare a short dramatization about social trends during the Enlightenment. Dramatizations could focus on changes in the role of women, crime and punishment, leisure and recreation, education, family life, life in upper/lower classes, political and social values, etc. The class draws conclusions regarding the scope of changes.

5

COV.03, CO3.01, CCV.01, CC1.02, CCV.03, CC3.03, HIV.04, HI4.01

K/U
T/I
A

Revolutions and Causation - American Revolution

Students analyse the causes of the American Revolution exploring specifically the failure of mercantilism.

Ancien Régime
In a lecture-type lesson, students complete an organizer of the characteristics of the three Estates as well as the major causes of the French Revolution. Students make conclusions regarding the similarities and differences in the causes of revolutions.

6

CHV.01, CH1.01, CH1.0, CHV.04, CH4.04, SEV.04, SE4.03, HIV.02, HI2.04, HIV.03, HI3.03

K/U
T/I
A

The Philosophies in Reality? – Primary Document Analysis

Students examine at excerpts from primary sources: The Declaration of Independence, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine and Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke. Students identify and discuss the characteristics of the Enlightenment in each document.

7

COV.03, CO3.01, CCV.03, CC3.01, CHV.03, CH3.04, SEV.03, SE3.01, HIV.01, HI1.02, HI1.03, HIV.03, HI3.01

K/U
T/I
C
A

Eventful/Event-making Figures – Timeline

Students produce a timeline beginning with Napoleon’s rise to power and ending with his exile to St. Helena. Using this data, students evaluate whether Napoleon was an eventful and event-making individual using Sidney Hook’s model. They may also apply the ‘Great Person’ model.

8

CCV.01, CC1.01, CC1.02, CC1.03, CC1.04, CCV.02, CC2.01, CC2.02, CHV.01, CH1.02, HIV.01, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03

K/U
T/I
A
C

Culminating Activity – Bulletin Board Display of the Impact of the Enlightenment

Individually, students prepare a visual or written item that reflects the impact of the Enlightenment on their specialist area, selected in Unit 1 for the Course Culminating Activity (i.e., Economics, Technology, Social, Political, Intellectual Thought and Global Issues). Using the bulletin board as a resource, students summarize the impact of the Enlightenment. Students are given time to add to their Course Culminating Tracking Folder monitoring their theme.

 

Unit 3:  1815–1914 A Century of Political, Social and Intellectual Forces Gone Awry

Time:  22 hours

Unit Description

Students explore the political, social, and intellectual climate of the world chronologically and thematically from 1815–1914. Students examine themes such as the restoration and failure of European absolutism, the rise of nationalism and the nation state, the emergence of imperialistic powers, the Industrial Revolution and its impact on 19th Century political and social traditions, as well as the emergence of radical political, social, and intellectual forces that questioned the foundations of key political and social institutions. Through activities such as a map study, comparison charts, case studies, data collections, readings, a job application and “soap box speech,” students analyse and draw conclusions about the changing political and social climate of Europe and the wider world, explore and scrutinize the political and social impact of the Industrial Revolution, as well as develop an understanding and appreciation of the nature and characteristics of Romanticism. In the culminating activity, students take part in a “Panel Interview,” where key individuals that challenged the established order of the 19th Century are interrogated in order to discover how and why they challenged the status quo. Writing as a reactionary revisionist, students compose a written response justifying their selection of three most radical individuals of this century. Students are expected to add to their Tracking Folder for the Course culminating “Retro-Review.”

Unit Overview Chart

Cluster

Learning Expectations

Assessment Categories

Focus/Activity

1

COV.03, CO3.02, CCV.01, CC1.02, CC1.03, CCV.03, CC3.01, CC3.02, HIV.01, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03

K/U
A

Metternich and the Concert of Europe Map Study

Given three maps from 1799, 1812, and 1815, students draw conclusions about the changing political situation in Europe.

Comparison Activity
On a chart, students make comparisons between the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles

2

CCV.01, CC1.03, CCV.03, CC3.03, CHV.01, CH1.01, CH1.02, SEV.03, SE3.01, HIV.02, HI2.03

K/U
T/I
A

Nationalism – the Rise of the Nation State – 1848 Revolutions

Students read and review events of the 1848 revolutions and analyse the reasons for their failures. They speculate on what would be necessary for a revolution to succeed.

Realpolitik and the Unification of Italy and Germany

Students read an excerpt from Bismarck’s “Blood and Iron” speech and define the concept of Realpolitik. This approach is contrasted to the 1848 approach and failures. Students apply the concept of Realpolitik to a case study of the unification of Italy and Germany.

3

CHV.01, CH1.01, CHV.03, CH3.01, CH3.02, CH3.03, CH3.04, SEV.04, SE4.03, HIV.01, HI1.02, HIV.03, HI3.01

K/U
T/I
C
A

The Romantic Rebellion – Characteristics of Romanticism

Students explore the characteristics of Romanticism through teacher-directed lessons that present primary source examples of romantic art, poetry, literature, and music. Students draw conclusions regarding the nature, purpose, and impact of Romanticism.

Romantic Job Application

Students are assigned a key Romantic figure for whom they complete a job application for a job as a “Classic” Romantic. Students exchange applications at the “Employer Exchange”, and in the role as employer they select the top Artist, Writer, and Musician who best fits the bill. Top choices are discussed.

4

COV.01, CO1.03, CCV.01, CC1.03; CCV.02, CC2.01, CCV.03, CC3.03; CHV.01, CH1.02; CHV.04, CH4.01 CH4.03; SEV.01, SE1.02, SE1.04; SEV.02, SE2.02; SEV.03, SE3.04; SEV.04, SE4.02, HIV.02, HI2.03, HIV.03, HI3.01, HIV.04, HI4.03

K/U
C
A

The Industrial Revolution: Social and Political Consequences – Social Impact

Students make conclusions regarding the social consequences of the early Industrial Revolution using data presented in the form of graphs, charts, and primary source excerpts that show the birth and death rates, time of transportation, conditions in mines and factories, literacy rate, population statistics, urban/rural statistics, and first hand accounts of people at the time.

Case Studies of the Political Impact

Students explore the political and legislative responses to the challenges of the Industrial Revolution through case studies of different ideological groups such as the Utopian Socialists, Scientific Socialists, Chartists, Luddites, Liberals/Whigs and Conservatives.

“Soap Box” Presentation

Using data collected, students prepare a brief “Soap Box” speech that promotes the ideology of a specific political group and their solutions to the problems of the Industrial Revolution.

5

COV.03, CO3.01, CHV.01, CH1.03, CHV.O2, CH2.01, CH2.02, CH2.03, CH2.04, CHV.03, CH3.04, HIV.01, HI1.02, HIV.02, HI2.01, HI2.04, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03

K/U
T/I
C
A

Imperialism: The West imposes itself on the World – Primary Source/Poetry Analysis

Students examine, analyse and compare Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden” and Labouchere’s “Brown Man’s Burden” and make conclusions regarding the West’s view of their colonies and the Colonies’ view of the Colonizer. Students explore the concept of Social Darwinism by looking at documents or excerpts of Darwin, Spencer, T. Roosevelt, etc. Students speculate on the impact and consequences of such views on the world.

Imperialism and its Impact

Students explore one colony and report on the impact that imperialism had on the colony as well as the mother country at the time. Students record data and make conclusions regarding the consequences of imperialism.

6

CHV.01, CH1.01, CHV.02, CH2.01, CHV.03, CH3.01, CH3.04, CCV.01, CC1.03, HIV.01, HI.1.02, HIV.02, HI2.04, HIV.03, HI3.02, HI3.03, HIV.04, HI4.01

K/U
T/I
C
A

Culminating Activity: Talk Show/Panel Interview

In pairs, students are assigned a key individual who challenged the established order of the 19th Century, for example, Einstein, Freud, Nietzsche, Darwin, Spencer, Marx, Pankhurst, Bernstein, Sorel, Gokale (Indian National Congress), Williams (Pan-African Congress), Planck, Stravinsky, Tubman, Sun Yat-Sen, Dubois. In a panel interview, key individuals are interrogated by another student in the partnership in order to discover how and why they challenged the status quo. Students collect data on all the “interviews.”

Written response

Writing as a reactionary revisionist, students select two to three radical individuals of this century that they consider “challenged the status quo.” Students justify their selection in a position paper. Students are given time to add to their Course Culminating Tracking Folder monitoring their theme.

 

Unit 4:  1914 to the Present Day – A Century of Destruction and Reconstruction

Time:  28 hours

Unit Description

Students explore global events since 1914 from a thematic perspective. Students examine the themes of Conflict and Revolution, International Organizations and Human Rights, Decolonization and Globalization, Economic and Technological Change, and the Arts in order to make sense of the monumental changes that occurred in the 20th Century. These changes resulted in the destruction of old institutions and beliefs and the construction of new institutions and values, setting the stage for the new millennium. By means of activities such as work stations, the production of a picture book, Internet data collection and quick fact presentations, comparison charts, mind maps, posters and case studies, students analyse and synthesize key conflicts and revolutions of the time period, explore the process and impact of decolonization and globalization, describe and assess a variety of governmental and non-governmental world organizations, and assess the impact of economic and technological change. As culminating activities for this unit, students prepare an individual and group project. In small groups, students research and present the arts’ responses to the key themes of the unit in a coffee house set up. Individually, students prepare Trading Cards on the significant individuals of the 20th Century, which are shared in a “Trading Card Convention.” Based on data collected at the “Exchange,” students select the top three people of the 20th Century and defend their selection. Students are expected to add to their ‘Tracking Folder’ for the Course culminating Retro-Review.

Unit Overview Chart

Cluster

Learning Expectations

Assessment Categories

Focus/Activity

1

COV.03, CO3.01, CO3.02, CCV.03, CC3.03, HIV.01, HI1.02, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03, HIV.04

K/U
T/I
A
C

Conflict and Revolution – A Century at a Glance

Students review major events of the 20th Century through a brief diagnostic activity.

Cause and Effect and Conflict

Using World War I as a model, students briefly review the causes and consequences of conflict. Students apply this understanding of cause and effect to key conflicts and revolutions of the 20th Century. Using a “regional work station approach,” students collect and record data on a selection of conflicts and revolutions in the 20th Century.

Young Person’s Picture Book

Using the data collected, students select a balanced representation of conflicts and revolutions and record them in a short chronologically and regionally organized picture book. A page in the book is dedicated to reflections made on similarities, differences, and consequences of conflict.

2

COV.02, CO2.03, CHV.02, CH2.03, SEV.02, SE2.04, HIV.01, HI1.02, HI1.03, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03, HIV.04, HI4.01, HI4.03

K/U
T/I
A
C

Decolonization – National Self-Determination

Students analyse the principle of national self-determination and its application in the post-World War I period.

Quick Fact Case study

Students prepare and present a mini report “Quick Fact at a Glance” case study of selected nations’ decolonization experience post-World War II.

Globalization: The New Imperialism

Globalization is addressed and analysed and briefly debated in class.

3

COV.03, CO3.03, CO3.04, CHV.04, CH4.02, CH4.03, CH4.04, SEV.03, SE3.05, HIV.01, HI1.02, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03, HI2.05, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03, HIV.04, HI4.01, HI4.04

K/U
T/I
A
C

Peace, Security, and Human Rights – Collective Rights

In a comparison of the League of Nations and the United Nations, Military Alliances, and Economic Organizations, students explore the nature and promotion of collective national rights.

Individual Rights

Students prepare and present an Information Poster on a variety of human rights organizations and their success in promoting human rights. Based on these posters and the oral report, students judge which organizations should be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize of the 20th Century. In a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee, students justify their selection.

4

COV.02, CO2.01, CCV.01, CC1.04, SEV.01, SE1.02, SEV.02, SE2.02 SE2.03, SEV.04, SE4.02, HIV.01, HI1.02, HIV.02, HI2.04, HIV.04, HI4.01, HI4.03

K/U
A
C

Economic and Technological Development –Challenges of the 20th Century

Students read a brief summary case study of major economic developments/events since 1914. Students use a jigsaw strategy to exchange information to show the impact, consequences, and response (governmental/individual) to their case study. The class discusses the changing role of government and ways people have responded to economic challenges and events. Students write a quiz.

Innovations of the 20th Century

Using a prepared template organizer, students use a pre-selected Internet site to collect data on the major technological innovations since 1914, assess their impact, and record their global accessibility.

5

CHV.03, CH3.01, CH3.02, CH3.03, CH3.04, HIV.01, HI1.02, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03, HI2.04, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.03, HIV.04, HI4.01, HI4.02, HI4.03, HI4.04

K/U
T/I
A
C

Art as a Reflection of Society – Coffee House Forum

Students representing a variety of music, art and literature of the 20th Century, present how their particular artist or genre reflected the themes of the century’s conflict, revolution, human rights, and economic and technological change. Students bring samples of music, art, and literature to share with the class. Based on their experience, students record how artists reflect and project trends in society. Students make comparisons with previous periods in history.

6

CCV.01 CC1.03, SEV.04, SE4.03, HIV.01, HI1.02, HI1.03, HIV.02, HI2.03, HI2.05, HIV.03, HI3.01, HI3.02, HI3.03, HIV.04, HI4.01

K/U
T/I
A
C

Trading Card Convention of Key Individuals – Culminating Activity

Students research and prepare a 4" ´ 3" Trading Card of a key individual of the 20th Century. Cards include a picture of the individual, a summary of their accomplishments, and an assessment of their contribution to 20th Century. Cards are exchanged at a “Convention,” and based on the data collected students select and defend their choice of the top three personalities of the 20th Century. A Quiz or Unit test may be incorporated to measure general knowledge and understanding of key concepts of the 20th Century. Time is allocated for students to add to their Tracking Folder for the Course culminating Retro-Review.

Unit 5:  “News Documentary – Retro Review”: Culminating Activity

Time:  14 hours

Unit Description

Students synthesize the data collected throughout the course using their Thematic Tracking Folder. With other students they prepare and present a news documentary that chronicles their specialist thematic area. The TV show is either pre-recorded where facilities allow, or performed before a live audience. Following television procedures true to life, students apply and experience the excitement of planning, preparing, and performing as their favourite talk show stars. In the TV show students review the trends in their area for the past 500 years, reflect on the global nature of the theme and make predictions about future trends. Students use audio visual aids, charts, etc. to enhance the clarity and veracity of the performance. Students synthesize data collected from the performances and employ it in the preparation of a question which could appear on the year-end examination.

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Course Culminating Activity – “News Documentary: Retro Review” – Television Show

In expert groups, students prepare a television talk show that reviews and assesses their area, including a retrospective of the past 500 years, a global review of the theme, a presentation of the state of the world today and predictions of future trends.

Tracking Folder

Students add to a Tracking Folder throughout the course by gathering data on their assigned thematic area as it is dealt with in each unit. Students also spend some time during each unit doing additional research using the library/resource centre.

Written Component

A written component including a script and the storyboard process and the Folder is included for assessment.

Reflections and Synthesis

Written reflections on all the thematic areas should be incorporated into the final exam.

 

Teaching/Learning Strategies

This course seeks to have students become independent, self-motivated learners. There is a range of opportunities for students to acquire knowledge, to think critically, to communicate effectively, and to apply what they have learned to new situations. Through a rich variety of activities, such as the development of chronologies, comparing, contrasting and analysing data, performing mock interviews, and assuming the role of different characters, students learn how to research, establish cause and effect, identify bias, understand different perspectives, and develop empathy. The preparation of editorials, television scripts, reports, posters, and a variety of written products enhance students’ communication skills. The different occasions for group work promote cooperative learning, discussion, brainstorming, and interpersonal skills. The use of the Internet, videos, periodicals, journals, magazines, and newspapers enhances students’ media literacy. It is important that teachers instruct students on the safe use of the Internet for research and that it complies with their board/school policies. With the opportunities to make posters, design sets, construct a variety of visual displays, and present material orally in a variety of forms, students have opportunities to display their other learning capabilities. Students bring all their learning experiences together in the course culminating activity of a Television/Media production in
Unit 5.

In each unit, teachers should develop tasks from the course expectations that link the assessment to the appropriate category in the Achievement Chart, found on pp. 246–247 in The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, Canadian and World Studies.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

The Achievement Chart, which is the basis for assessment and evaluation in this course, is found in The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, Canadian and World Studies, pp. 246 - 247. The chart identifies four major categories of Knowledge/Understanding, Thinking/Inquiry, Communication, and Application. These categories encompass the curriculum expectations in all courses in Canadian and World Studies. The descriptions at Level 3 represent the provincial standard for student achievement. When planning lessons and assessments, teachers should review the required curriculum expectations, plan the criteria for the assigned task, and link them to the categories. They should ensure that all the expectations are accounted for in the assignments and the achievement of the expectations is assessed within the appropriate categories. A balance between Achievement Chart categories should be used in the planning of lessons and the collection of student assessment data. Assessment must be embedded within the instructional process throughout each unit rather than being an isolated event at the end. In every case, the desired demonstration of learning is articulated at the beginning and the learning activity is planned to make that demonstration possible. Students in College destination courses need to be prepared for College; therefore, by the end of the course students should demonstrate strong written and oral communication skill, independent learning through the completion of projects and activities, and knowledge and understanding through conventional paper-and-pencil tests.

The assessment and learning practices used in this Course Profile:

·         provide opportunities for student learning to improve by using formative assessment tools in each unit, such as self- and peer-editing of written work and visual organizers;

·         accommodate the needs of exceptional students, consistent with the strategies outlined in their Individual Education Plan (IEP);

·         accommodate a variety of learning styles and special needs, when necessary, in order to improve student performances;

·         use assessment tools that are appropriate for the expectations being addressed and that relate to the categories on the Achievement Chart;

·         promote students’ ability to assess their own learning and to set specific goals;

·         provide students with models of skills which they are expected to master;

·         provide students with a clear indication of assessment and evaluation criteria by means of rubrics and checklists;

·         provide students with feedback from both formative assessment and summative evaluation strategies;

·         provide clear communications to students and parents at the beginning of the course and at other appropriate points throughout the course.

According to The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12, Program Planning and Assessment, 2000, “the primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning” (p.13). The information gathered through assessment helps teachers to adapt their instructional approaches to the needs of students with a college destination. If some of the assessment practices described in this Course Profile do not meet the needs of students, those assessment practices should be altered.

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12, Program Planning and Assessment, 2000 states that in the student’s overall mark, a weight of 70% will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course, while 30% will be based on a “final evaluation in the form of an examination, performance, essay, and/or other method of evaluation suitable to the course content and administered towards the end of the course” (p. 15). A decision about how the 30% is allocated is ultimately to be made by teachers, schools, or boards. In this College destination course, it is recommended that the 30% be divided between the performance task of the “News Documentary – Retro Review”: Media Presentation in Unit 5 and the written reflection and a final exam.

The recommended course culminating activity involves research, creative thinking, making connections between the past and the present, and the demonstration of oral and written communication skills. Each student selects or is assigned one of the themes of the course and prepares, with others selecting or assigned the same theme, a media presentation staged in the auditorium or classroom or pre-recorded on video. Each student also traces his/her course theme in a Tracking Folder added to during each unit and written reflection following the presentations. Each of the four categories outlined in the Achievement Chart is covered in this culminating activity. In the ongoing process of assessment, the student’s most recent work is given greater consideration and the most consistent level of achievement is used to generate the final mark.

Teachers need to systematically teach and collect data for the separate evaluation of students’ learning skills as required for the Provincial Report Card. The skills, “Works Independently,” “Team Work,” “Organization,” “Work Habits” and “Initiative,” are integrally linked to student performance, but they are not used in the calculation of the final grade.

Accommodations

Every effort is made to assist all students in achieving success in this History course. Specific adaptations and accommodations are recommended with each activity for the units written. Suitable adaptations in assessment and evaluation in Grade 12 include strategies for students with reading, writing, and memory difficulties, as well as for students who require enrichment. Accommodating strategies include the use of diagrams and charts, pre-teaching vocabulary and difficult concepts, teaching how to highlight important points in a text and teaching students reading strategies, using point form notes, peer editing, teaching the skill of outlining, checking notebooks frequently and providing text in a different format (e.g., oral presentations), the provision of lists and recall charts, use of organizers, chunking of information and daily checks to see if assignments are recorded in a daily planner.

Some possible ways to accommodate a variety of learning styles and skills, as well as extenuating circumstances, include the granting of extra time to complete and hand in assignments, the use of oral interviews, the use of laptop computers for note-taking, providing overhead copies before the class and photocopied notes, and breaking down large assignments into manageable sub-tasks. Teachers should consult individual exceptional students’ IEPs for specific direction on accommodation to assist individual students in meeting the required expectations.

When planning accommodations for ESL/ELD students, proficiency levels outlined in The Ontario Curriculum, Grade 9 to 12, English As a Second Language and English Literacy Development will provide teachers and school administrators with a guide to receiving and accommodating these learners in the regular classroom. To accommodate the needs of the ESL/ELD students, history teachers are encouraged to work with the ESL teacher within their school or board in order to select resources related to the ESL/ELD Curriculum Policy Document strands: Reading, Writing, Oral and Visual Communication and Social and Cultural Competence. Specific accommodations for ESL/ELD students include the use of bilingual dictionaries, when necessary, and the use of their first language to plan, organize and write first drafts of written and performance products. ESL/ELD learners, like all learners, have different learning styles; therefore a wide variety of teaching/learning strategies and assessment/evaluation techniques need to be used in all classrooms.

Resources

The URLs for the websites were verified by the writers prior to publication. Given the frequency with which these designations change, teachers should always verify the websites prior to assigning them for student use.

Units in this Course Profile make reference to the use of specific texts, magazines, films, videos, and websites. Teachers need to consult their board policies regarding use of any copyrighted materials. Before reproducing materials for student use from printed publications, teachers need to ensure that their board has a Cancopy licence and that this licence covers the resources they wish to use. Before screening videos/films with their students, teachers need to ensure that their board/school has obtained the appropriate public performance videocassette licence from an authorized distributor, e.g., Audio Cine Films Inc. Teachers are reminded that much of the material on the Internet is protected by copyright. The copyright is usually owned by the person or organization that created the work. Reproduction of any work or substantial part of any work on the Internet is not allowed without the permission of the owner.

Books

Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art Across Time, Vol. II. New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. ISBN 0697274802

Anderson, Bonnie S. and Judith P. Zinssen. A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Vol. II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0195128397

Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. The Dictionary of Global Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. ISBN 039458581x

Atlas of Exploration. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 19521353X

Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life. New York: Harper Collins, 2000. ISBN 0060928832

Bernier, Olivier. The World in 1800. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. ISBN 0471395218

Black, Jeremy. Atlas of World History. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000. ISBN 078944609X

Churchill, E. Richard and Linda R. Churchill. Short Lessons in World History. Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, 1999. ISBN 0825139414

Cole, Bruce and Gealt Adelheid. Art of the Western World. New York: Summit Books, 1989.
ISBN 0671670077

Cowie, Leonard and Robert Wolfson. Years of Nationalism, European History 1815-1890. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. ISBN 0713173289

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years. New York: Touchstone, 1996. ISBN 0684825368

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1997. ISBN 0312274947

Fleming, William. Arts and Ideas. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995.
ISBN 0155011049

Lewis, Jon E., ed. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History 2000. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2000. ISBN 078670474X

Machlis, Joseph and Kristine Forney. The Enjoyment of Music. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1999. ISBN 0393972909

Nardo, Don. The French Revolution. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999. ISBN 1565109333

Newman, Garfield and Cynthia Grenier. Impact: Western Civilization and the Wider World. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1996. ISBN 0075515466

Noonan, Theresa C. Document Based Assessment Activities for Global History Classes. Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, Publisher, 1996. ISBN 0-38744-906

Parker, Geoffrey, ed. The Time Compact History of the World. London: Times Books, 2001
ISBN 000710927X

Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik. The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400-the Present. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1999. ISBN 0765602490

Sax, Benjamin C., ed. Western Civilization, Volume II: From Scientific Revolution until the Present. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2001. ISBN 1565109902

Sherman, Dennis and Joyce Salisbury. The West in the World. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001.
ISBN 0070599831

Smith, Bonnie G. Imperialism: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
ISBN 0195108019

Steward, Robert, ed. Ideas that Shaped Our World: Understanding the Great Concepts of then and now. London: Marshall Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1840281731

Stiles, Andrina. Napoleon, France and Europe. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
ISBN 0340573759

Strickland, Carol and John Boswell. The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992. ISBN 0836280059

Swift, Michael. Historical Maps of Europe. London: PRC Pub., 2000. ISBN 1856485757

Tansey, Richard G. and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. Fort Worth: International Thomson Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0155083155

Thompson, Stephen. The Reformation. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999. ISBN 1565109600

Thompson, Stephen. The Renaissance. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. ISBN 0737702184

Van Doren, Charles. A History of Knowledge Past, Present and Future. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. ISBN 0345373162

Werner, Kirk D. The American Revolution. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. ISBN 0737702389

What Life was Like During the Age of Reason: France AD 1660-1800. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1999. ISBN 078355463X

What Life was Like in Europe’s Romantic Era: AD 1789-1848. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 2000. ISBN 0783554664

Whitfield, Peter. Landmarks in Western Science From Prehistory to the Atomic Age. New York: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0415925339

CD-ROMS

The Norton Recordings. CD. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. Sony Music Entertainment Inc., 1999. ISBN 0393102505

Videos

Art of the Western World. PBS Home Video. WGBH Boston. 1989. (9 parts)

CBC News In Review. CBC Non-Broadcast Sales. Toronto: 1991-2002.

Crucible of the Millennium. Educational Resource Guide. American Forum for Global Education. New York. 2001. (www.globaled.org/crucible)

Empires Series. WGBH Boston Video. 2000-2002. (Series titles available at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/empires)

Whitehead, John W. Grasping for the Wind. Series. Glass Onion Productions. New York: 1998-2000 (www.grasping.com/synopsis.htm)

Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting. BBC Video. 1996

Sister Wendy’s American Collection. PBS Home Video. WGBH Boston. 2001

The Age of Revolutions (1776-1848). Network Television/Goldcrest Tele. Dist., 1985.

History Through Literature Series. Clearview/eav. Prod. Magic Lantern Communications. Dist. 1995. Pertinent titles: New Worlds and New Ideas (1492-1750), Industry and Enlightenment (1730-1820), Romanticism and Revolution (1770-1870), Imperialism and Progress: The Victorian Era (1860-1915), Renaissance and Reformation (1450-1660), World Wars and the Quest for Order: The Early 20th Century (1900-1955), and Liberation and Change: The Late 20th Century (1945 to present).

Western Traditions Series. WGBH – Boston. Prod. Magic Lantern Communications. Dist. 1985. Pertinent titles are: The Renaissance and the Age of Discovery/The Renaissance and the New World, The Reformation/The Rise of the Middle Class, The Wars of Religion/The Rise of Trading Cities, The Age of Absolution/Absolution and the Social Contract, The Enlightened Despots/The Enlightenment, The Enlightenment and Society/The Modern Philosophers, The American Revolution/The American Republic, The Death of the Old Regime/ The French Revolution, The Industrial Revolution/The Industrial World, Revolution and the Romantics/The Age of the Nation-States, The New Public/Fin de Siecle, The First World War and the Rise of Fascism/The Second World War, The Cold War/Europe and the Third World and The Technological Revolution/Toward the Future.

Websites

Applied History Research Group. The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. University of Calgary. 5 July 2001. 15 December 2001.
– www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/index.html

Chastain, James. Encyclopedia of the Revolutions of 1848. Ohio University. 1997. 15 December 2001.
– http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/index.htm

Halsall, Paul. Internet History of Science Sourcebook. Fordham University. February 2001. 15 December 2001. –  www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html

Halsall, Paul. Internet Modern History Sourcebook. Fordham University. 22 September 2001.

15 December 2001. – www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Introducing Series. Icon Books. United Kingdom. 2001.
– www.iconbooks.co.uk/introducing/intro.cfm (series titles include such topics as: Introducing the Enlightenment, Introducing Romanticism, Introducing Post-Modernism, Introducing Nietzsche, Introducing Freud, Introducing Feminism, Introducing Philosophy, Introducing Marx)


Coded Expectations, World History: The West and the World, Grade 12, College Preparation, CHY4C

Communities: Local, National, and Global

Overall Expectations

COV.01 · demonstrate an understanding of a variety of types of communities people have formed since the sixteenth century;

COV.02 · describe key elements of various types of interactions that have occurred among diverse peoples and cultures since the sixteenth century;

COV.03 · evaluate key factors that have led to conflict and war or to cooperation and peace.

Specific Expectations

Types of Communities and Their Development

CO1.01 – identify the roots and describe the nature of a variety of communities and groups founded on religious, ethnic, and/or intellectual principles (e.g., Zen Buddhists, Jesuits, Sikhs, Mennonites, Christian Scientists, B’nai B’rith, pacifists, environmentalists);

CO1.02 – describe key aspects of the character of rural communities that developed in the West and in the rest of the world (e.g., traditional communal villages, family farms and large farms or plantations, farms involved in modern international agribusiness; differing roles of elders, women, and children);

CO1.03 – identify pivotal developments and issues in the process of modern urbanization (e.g., development of administrative, commercial, and manufacturing towns and cities; issues of inner cities and suburbia; dilemmas of megacities; issues of law, order, and infrastructure).

The Nature of Interaction Among Communities

CO2.01 – describe key factors that have prompted and facilitated increasing interaction between peoples since the sixteenth century (e.g., changes in transportation; demographic pressures; religious, dynastic, and national ambitions);

CO2.02 – describe key aspects of the impact of Western colonization on both the colonizer and the colonized (e.g., enrichment and impoverishment; introduction of new foods, materials, products, and ideas; destruction of cultures through disease and policy; revival of commitment to indigenous cultural identities);

CO2.03 – describe pivotal events, issues, and personalities associated with the process of decolonization during the twentieth century (e.g., Russo-Japanese War, Wilson’s ideal of national self-determination, World War II, Gandhi and Nehru, Cold War and post– Cold War tensions, rise of multinational corporations).

Conflict and Cooperation

CO3.01 – describe the key factors that have led to conflict and war (e.g., demographic pressures, as seen in the Bantu, Chinese, Indian, and European migrations and related conflicts; personal, religious, cultural, and racial issues, as seen in the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian pogroms, the American Civil War, the Mahdist insurrections, World War II, and genocides, including the Holocaust; national and imperial rivalries, as seen in the Seven Years’ War, World War I, and the Cold War);

CO3.02 – demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of war (e.g., destruction of human life and property, changes in power balances and regimes, entrenchment of attitudes of superiority and resistance);

CO3.03 – identify key factors that have motivated people to seek peace and to cooperate with others (e.g., war weariness, pacifism, mutual advantages of protective alliances and friendships);

CO3.04 – describe the main points of selected approaches to maintaining international order (e.g., the Westphalian nation-state system; cultural, racial, or religious unity; Marxist class solidarity; Wilsonian internationalism; movements to defend and promote universal human rights).

Change and Continuity

Overall Expectations

CCV.01 · describe how the historical concept of change is used to analyse developments in the West and throughout the world since the sixteenth century;

CCV.02 · describe how the historical concept of continuity is used to analyse developments in the West and throughout the world since the sixteenth century;

CCV.03 · demonstrate an understanding of the importance and use of chronology and cause and effect in historical analyses of developments in the West and throughout the world since the sixteenth century.

Specific Expectations

Change in History

CC1.01 – describe key examples illustrating the variety, intensity, and breadth of change that has taken place from the sixteenth century to the present (e.g., developments in religion; changing views of the universe, from the geocentric to the heliocentric to notions of an expanding universe; social reform);

CC1.02 – identify influential forces that have facilitated the process of change (e.g., increase in literacy, humanism and liberalism, scientific revolutions) and those that have tended to impede it (e.g., rigid class or caste systems, reactionary and conservative philosophies, traditional customs);

CC1.03 – assess the influence of key individuals and groups who helped shape Western attitudes to change (e.g., Gutenberg, Galileo, Watt, Faraday, Darwin, Curie, Edison, Ford, Gates; explorers and innovators, Luddites, Fabians, feminists, environmentalists);

CC1.04 – describe the nature of selected technological changes and their impact on the West and the rest of the world (e.g., the printing press, modern shipbuilding and navigation, steam and electric power, radio and telecommunications, modern medical technology).

Continuity in History

CC2.01 – describe the roles played by selected social institutions in reinforcing continuity in history (e.g., religious institutions, schools, class, assigned family and gender roles, rituals and traditions);

CC2.02 – identify the key ways in which political institutions have contributed to a sense of continuity (e.g., dynastic and national governments, political bureaucracies, legal traditions and judicial systems);

CC2.03 – describe key factors that contribute to maintaining the flow of historical continuity (e.g., popular allegiance to and acceptance of tradition; the effectiveness of appeals to continuity in resolving issues; fear of change).

Chronology and Cause and Effect

CC3.01 – demonstrate an understanding of the importance of chronology as a tool in analysing the history of events in the West and the rest of the world since the sixteenth century (e.g., by tracing the expansion of political enfranchisement, military technological innovation, agricultural and scientific developments);

CC3.02 – explain how viewing events in chronological order and within a specific periodization provides a basis for historical understanding;

CC3.03 – describe how an understanding of cause-and-effect relationships serves as an essential tool for historical analysis (e.g., Gutenberg’s printing press and the Protestant Reformation, land redistribution by the conquistadors and contemporary Latin American social inequality, social Darwinism and modern hypotheses of racial superiority, the Long March and the victory of Chinese communism).

Citizenship and Heritage

Overall Expectations

CHV.01 · describe key Western beliefs, philosophies, and ideologies that have affected the West and the rest of the world since the sixteenth century;

CHV.02 · describe ideas and cultures from around the world that have influenced the course of world history since the sixteenth century;

CHV.03 · analyse different forms of artistic expression and how they reflect their particular historical period;

CHV.04 · describe the range and diversity of concepts of citizenship and human rights that have developed since the sixteenth century.

Specific Expectations

Western Beliefs, Philosophies, and Ideologies

CH1.01 – identify the central tenets of selected modern beliefs and philosophies and describe how they have shaped Western thought (e.g., the Reformation and Calvinism, rationalism and empiricism, romanticism, socialism, Darwinism, Marxist-Leninism, Fascism and Nazism, liberal democracy);

CH1.02 – describe examples of the pivotal influence of modern Western thought on economic, social, and political developments of the West (e.g., the development of mercantile and laissez-faire economies, national identification and the rise of the sovereign nation-state system, socialism and labour movements, the concept of positive progress, the spread of popular democracy);

CH1.03 – describe key examples of the impact of modern Western thought on the non-Western world (e.g., transformation or loss of indigenous religions, cultures, and economies; creation of new national boundaries and identities, as in Africa and South Asia; adaptation of Western ideas, such as those of liberalism, social democracy, and communism in China, Cuba, and some African states).

Ideas and Cultures of the Non-Western World

CH2.01 – identify key characteristics of and ideas emerging from selected cultures from around the world (e.g., tribalism in indigenous societies, Chinese and Indian dynastic absolutism, characteristics of Latin American Creole and mestizo culture);

CH2.02 – describe how selected non-Western ideas and cultures influenced developments in indigenous societies (e.g., Ottoman imperialism and the spread of Islam, Moghul rule in India, the effect of Manchu traditionalism and isolationism on China, the effect of the samurai code on Japan);

CH2.03 – demonstrate an understanding of how European imperialism transformed traditions in the non-Western world (e.g., changing social and political elites in India, influence of Christian missionaires in China and Africa, development of the encomienda system of land holding in Latin America);

CH2.04 – describe key conflicts and controversies that arose as a result of resistance to the assertive spread of modern Western ideas (e.g., isolationism in Japan under the Tokugawa, Aboriginal American resistance to European settlement, the Opium Wars, Gandhi’s passive resistance, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution).

Artistic Expression

CH3.01 – describe key developments in a variety of modes of artistic expression in the West since the sixteenth century (e.g., classical, baroque, romantic, and modern literature, music, and art; traditional and modern architectural styles; rise of popular culture and entertainments);

CH3.02 – describe key forms and styles of artistic expression throughout the world (e.g., Japanese painting and theatre, East Indian and African music, legend and mysticism in indigenous cultures, Latin American dance and literature);

CH3.03 – describe key elements of selected forces that helped to bring about changes in modern Western artistic expression (e.g., the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, industrialization, urbanization, electrification);

CH3.04 – assess the extent to which art reinforces and/or challenges prevailing social and political values (e.g., plays by Shakespeare, Moličre, Hellman, Miller; novels by Dickens, Sand, Gordimer, Rushdie; music by Mozart, Stravinsky, R. Murray Schafer; visual art by Poussin, Goya, Cassatt, Picasso; films by Kurosawa, Kubrick, Disney).

Citizenship and Human Rights

CH4.01 – describe key elements of various forms of human servitude (e.g., slavery, indenture, gender role restrictions);

CH4.02 – describe the efforts of individuals and groups who facilitated the advancement of individual and collective human rights (e.g., Locke, Kropotkin, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi; suffragists, Médecins Sans Frontičres);

CH4.03 – describe key aspects of a variety of factors that have impeded the advancement of human rights (e.g., poverty, religious intolerance, racial bias, imperial exploitation, authoritarian governments);

CH4.04 – describe pivotal attempts of national and international bodies to recognize and enhance human rights (e.g., Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Geneva Conventions on war, war crimes tribunals, Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

Social, Economic, and Political Structures

Overall Expectations

SEV.01 · demonstrate an understanding of selected diverse social structures and principles that have guided social organization in Western and non-Western societies since the sixteenth century;

SEV.02 · describe significant economic developments in the West and the rest of the world since the sixteenth century;

SEV.03 · describe the key developments and innovations in political organization in the West and the rest of the world since the sixteenth century;

SEV.04 · demonstrate an understanding of key aspects of women’s economic, social, and political lives in Western and non-Western societies since the sixteenth century.

Specific Expectations

Social Structures

SE1.01 – describe a selection of various types of social organization and social relationships that have been experienced in modern times (e.g., rigid class and caste systems, minorities and majorities, client–patron relationships, relationships and systems involving racial discrimination, systems that permit social mobility);

SE1.02 – describe key social developments that have occurred as a result of Western technological innovations (e.g., print and market-place revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, demographic changes);

SE1.03 – identify key developments in religion and religious observance in the West (e.g., Enlightenment deism and agnosticism, disputes between Darwinists and creationists, revivals of fundamentalism);

SE1.04 – describe how family structures have changed or why they have remained stable in various societies throughout the world (e.g., extended and nuclear families, matrilineal and patrilineal succession, marriage conventions, status of children and of the elderly).

Economic Structures

SE2.01 – identify key elements of pre-industrial economies (e.g., subsistence and capitalist agriculture, cottage industries, guild institutions, commercial entrepôts);

SE2.02 – describe how the first and second industrial revolutions affected the economies of the West and the rest of the world (e.g., unprecedented increase in material wealth, creation of large factories and industrial cities, increase in resource and market imperialism, rise of consumerism);

SE2.03 – explain the role of free enterprise capitalism in stimulating the development and spread of Western technological innovation (e.g., as evidenced by the activities of mercantile monopolies such as the East India Company; private railway companies such as Canadian Pacific; manufacturing enterprises such as Ford, Benz, Siemens, and Sony);

SE2.04 – demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of global economic interrelationships that developed in the twentieth century (e.g., labour and resource exploitation, widening disparities of economic opportunity and wealth, globalized production and marketing, revival of economic nationalism).

Political Organization

SE3.01 – describe key stages in the rise of the modern nation state in the West and subsequently in the rest of the world (e.g., the military and price revolutions, national administrative bureaucracies, French revolutionary "nation-at-arms", romantic and liberal nationalism, wars for national liberation);

SE3.02 – identify key elements of the relationship between the form of government and the culture of various societies (e.g., African tribalism, Chinese and Japanese dynastic traditions, Islamic theocracies, English parliamentarianism, American republicanism);

SE3.03 – describe the various ideological positions that are represented in the “political spectrum” (e.g., communism, socialism, liberalism, conservatism, fascism);

SE3.04 – describe key government responses to the social consequences of some of the major economic changes in the West and the rest of the world (e.g., expansionist or protectionist trade legislation, labour and social welfare legislation, nationalization of essential industries);

SE3.05 – describe selected examples of efforts to create international governmental and judicial structures (e.g., the European congress system, League of Nations, United Nations, European Community).

Women’s Experience

SE4.01 – identify the key factors that affected the position of women in pre-industrial societies (e.g., traditional cultural limitations, property rights, family roles, economic and political participation);

SE4.02 – describe the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and modernization on women’s lives in the West and the rest of the world (e.g., changing work and family roles, rise of middle-class status, impact of labour-saving devices and of medicines and medical procedures);

SE4.03 – demonstrate an understanding of the efforts and achievements of individuals and groups who have worked for the advancement of women’s status (e.g., Mary Wollstonecraft, Florence Nightingale, Nellie McClung, Eleanor Roosevelt, Simone de Beauvoir, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi; first- and second-wave feminist organizations).

Methods of Historical Inquiry

Overall Expectations

HIV.01 · demonstrate an ability to locate, select, and organize information from a variety of sources;

HIV.02 · demonstrate an understanding of the steps in the process of historical interpretation and analysis;

HIV.03 · communicate opinions based on effective research clearly and concisely;

HIV.04 · demonstrate an ability to think creatively, manage time efficiently, and work effectively in independent and collaborative study.

Specific Expectations

Research

HI1.01 – formulate significant questions for research and inquiry, drawing on examples from Western and world history (e.g., What were the effects of the power loom on English society? Why is the Titanic such a captivating topic? How did the atomic bomb change the nature of war?);

HI1.02 – conduct organized research, using a variety of information sources (e.g., primary and secondary sources, audio-visual materials, Internet sites);

HI1.03 – organize research findings, using a variety of methods and forms (e.g., note taking; graphs and charts, maps and diagrams).

Interpretation and Analysis

HI2.01 – demonstrate an ability to distinguish bias, prejudice, stereotyping, or a lack of substantiation in statements, arguments, and opinions;

HI2.02 – compare the main elements of selected interpretations of world history (e.g., liberal, progressive, economic);

HI2.03 – identify and describe relationships and connections in the data studied (e.g., chronological ties, cause and effect, similarities and differences);

HI2.04 – draw conclusions based on effective evaluation of sources, analysis of information, and awareness of diverse historical interpretations;

HI2.05 – demonstrate an ability to develop a cogent thesis substantiated by effective research.

Communication

HI3.01 – communicate effectively, using a variety of styles and forms (e.g., reports or essays, debates, role playing, group presentations);

HI3.02 – use an accepted form of academic documentation effectively and correctly (e.g., footnotes, endnotes, or author-date citations; bibliographies or reference lists; appendices);

HI3.03 – express opinions and conclusions clearly, articulately, and in a manner that respects the opinions of others.

Creativity, Collaboration, and Independence

HI4.01 – demonstrate an ability to think creatively in reaching conclusions about both assigned questions and issues and those conceived independently;

HI4.02 – use a variety of time-management strategies effectively;

HI4.03 – demonstrate an ability to work independently and collaboratively and to seek and respect the opinions of others;

HI4.04 – identify various career opportunities related to the study of history (e.g., researcher, archivist, teacher, journalist, writer).

 

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