WORLD HISTORY
SYLLABUS
SPRING 2011
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Instructor: Jerry Alan Sayers
E-mail:
School: sayersd@jcschools.org
Home: dusty@sayersnet.com
Course
Web
Page: http://www.sayersnet.com/history
Textbook: World History by
Elisabeth
Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, Pearson
Prentice
Hall,
Objective: The purpose of this course is to examine the
history
of the world from the fifteenth century to the present. It will
examine
Western Civilization in Europe and the
Evaluation:
1.Most classwork and homework assignments
count as
one grade each.
2.Quizzes count as two grades each.
3.Notebooks checks count as three grades
each.
4.Projects and presentations count as five
grades
each.
5.Tests count as five grades each.
6.The end of course exam counts as 20% of
the term 2
grade.
7.The final exam will count as 20% of the
course
grade.
Extra credit will not be assigned to improve a
grade.
Work is late if it is not ready to be handed in at the
beginning
of class (unless otherwise instructed). Late work will receive a
penalty
of 5 points per day, and must be submitted within five days of the due
date. Missed tests must be made up within 3 days of a student’s
return to school. Tests may require an hour and a half, so always be
present on
test days!
Notebook:
Each student will keep a notebook divided into five sections:
1.Notes taken in class
2.Maps
3.Worksheets
4.Quizzes and Tests
5.Other Handouts
Rules:
1.Be in assigned seat when bell rings.
2.Have class materials ready and personal
items away
when bell rings.
3.Only speak with permission.
4.Be respectful of others.
5.Turn in work on time.
6.Keep the room tidy.
7.Only leave the room with a hall pass.
8.Quid pro quo
2011 Spring Session
In case of inclement weather, lecture dates may move back one
day for
each day missed.
Page numbers are listed for each topic.
JAN 3 NO SCHOOL
JAN 4 Semester 1 Review Day
JAN 5 Semester 1 Exam Day
JAN 6 Introduction
JAN 7 SNOW DAY
JAN 10 SNOW DAY
JAN 11 SNOW DAY
JAN 13 The Middle Ages (255-260) and The
Beginning of Modern History
(269-275; 282-288)
JAN 14 The Renaissance; Slides (406-417; 434-439)
JAN 17 A Rebirth of Art and Literature
JAN 18 Renaissance
Drama (423-427)
JAN 19 The Old World and the New World (444-451; 470-481)
JAN 20 The Reformation (page 428)
JAN 21
Luther
JAN 22 The
Counter-Reformation (431-433)
JAN 24 The Counter-Reformation (431-433)
JAN 25 Tudor England (pages 429-430, 516)
JAN 26 EARLY DISMISSAL FOR SNOW
JAN 27 Elizabeth I and the Invincible Armada (504-509)
JAN 28 France,
the Hapsburgs, and the Thirty Years War
(510-511; 525-527) and Review
JAN 31 Test 1: Early Modern History
FEB 1 The Man in the Iron Mask
FEB 2 The
Sun
King (510-514)
FEB 3 The
Stuarts
(516-517)
FEB 4 The
English Civil War (517-524)
FEB 7 Eastern Europe and the Balance of Power (525-535)
FEB 8 The Enlightenment (434-438; 540-565)
FEB 9 Review
FEB 10 Test 2: Absolute Monarchy
FEB 11 The French Revolution (570-583)
FEB 14 The Reign of Terror (584-590)
FEB 15 Napoleon (591-599)
FEB 16 The Congress of Vienna (599-600)
FEB 17 The Industrial Revolution (606-621)
FEB 18 Reform (622-626)
FEB 21 Nationalism (634-644)
FEB 22 The Springtime
of
Nations; Deutschland Über
Alles
music (690-708)
FEB 23 Storm and Stress: 19th Century Art and Ideas (674-685)
FEB 24 Review
FEB 25 Test 3: Nineteenth Century Europe
FEB 28 Anglo-America
and Australia (739-743; 796-800)
MAR 1 Anglo-America and Australia (739-743; 796-800)
MAR 2 Latin America (645-651; 801-807)
MAR 3 The Middle East (762-766)
MAR 4 The Scramble for Africa (750-759)
MAR 5 South
Asia and the East Indies
(767-771; 791-795)
MAR 7 East Asia (773-777; 782-790)
MAR 8 Review
MAR 9 Test 4: The Age of Imperialism
MAR 10 The Great War Begins (812-828)
MAR 11 Life in the Trenches
MAR 14 The Treaty of Versailles (829-838; 861-864)
MAR 15 The
Russian Revolution (839-845) and
MAR 16 The Union
of
Soviet Socialist Republics and Animal Farm
MAR 17 Review
MAR 18 Test
5: World War I and the Russian
Revolution
Term 3
Ends
SPRING BREAK
MAR 28 The West between the Wars (881-893)
MAR 29 Worldwide Nationalism (858-861;
865-868)
MAR 30 The Rise of Fascism (894-902; 926)
MAR 31 Hitler (912-917)
APR 1 Nazi Germany (922-929)
APR 4 Nazi Germany (922-929)
APR 5 The Final Solution (935-937)
APR 6 Blitzkrieg (930-934)
APR 7 The
Rise of Japan (874-877)
APR 8 The
Rise of Japan (874-877)
APR 11 War in the Pacific (869-873; 937-940)
APR 12 War in the Pacific (869-873; 937-940)
APR 13 War in the Mediterranean (940-942)
APR 14 The Eastern Front and D-Day (942-947)
APR 15 The Tide Turns (948-950)
APR 18 The Atomic Age (950-953) and Review
APR 19 Test
6: World War II
APR 20 The Post-War World (954-956; 962-969)
APR 21 The Iron Curtain (970-974)
APR 22 The Iron Curtain (970-974)
APR 25 Two Chinas and Two Koreas (985-991)
APR 26 The Korean War
APR 27 The War in Vietnam (992-997)
APR 28 Primary Sources from the Vietnam War
APR 29 The End of Empire (1014-1023)
MAY 2 Review
MAY 3 Test 7: The Cold War
MAY 4 The Fall of Communism (998-1007; 1042-1047)
MAY 5 The Fall of Communism (998-1007; 1042-1047)
MAY 6 The European Union (1096-1098) *
MAY 9 The European Union (1096-1098) *
MAY 10 Post-Colonial Africa (1024-1031)
MAY 11 The Consequences of Colonialism (1048-1053)
MAY 12 The Modern Middle East (1032-1037) *
MAY 13 Islamic Revolution
MAY 16 Terrorism (1054-1059; 1115-1119)
MAY 17 The Development of Latin America (1082-1088)
MAY 18 The Development of Latin America (1082-1088)
MAY 19 The Rise of
Asia (983-984; 1076-1080; 1099) and Review
MAY 20
MAY 23 Test 8: A New World Order
MAY 24
MAY 25 Review
MAY 26 Final Exams
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page last updated 18 May, 2011.
