WORLD HISTORY
SYLLABUS
SPRING 2012
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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 final exam will count as 25%
of the Term 4 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
2012 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 2
NO SCHOOL
JAN 3
NO SCHOOL
JAN 4
Introduction
JAN 5 The
Middle Ages
(255-260)
JAN 6
The
Beginning of Modern History
(269-275; 282-288)
JAN 9 The
Renaissance (Slides)
(406-417; 434-439)
JAN 10 A Rebirth of Art and Literature
JAN 11 Renaissance
Drama
(423-427)
JAN 12
The Old
World and the New World
JAN 13
SNOW DAY
JAN 16
NO SCHOOL (Martin Luther King, Junior Day)
JAN 17 The Reformation (page
428)
JAN 18 The
Reformation Spreads
JAN 19 The
Counter-Reformation
(431-433)
JAN 20 Tudor England (pages 429-430, 516)
JAN 23 Elizabeth I and the Invincible Armada (504-509)
JAN 24 France, the Hapsburgs, and the Thirty
Years War (510-511; 525-527)
JAN 26 Test
1: Early Modern History
JAN 27 The
Man in the Iron Mask
JAN 30 The Sun King (510-514)
JAN 31 The Stuarts (516-517)
FEB 1
The English Civil War (517-524)
FEB 2 Eastern Europe and the Balance of Power (525-535)
FEB 3
The Enlightenment (434-438; 540-565)
FEB 6
The Enlightenment (434-438; 540-565)
FEB 7 Review
FEB 8
Test
2: Absolute
Monarchy
FEB 9
The French Revolution (570-583)
FEB 10
NO SCHOOL
FEB 13 The
Reign of Terror (584-590)
FEB 14 Napoleon
(591-599)
FEB 15 The
Congress of
FEB 16 The Industrial Revolution (606-621)
FEB 17 Reform (622-626)
FEB 20
NO SCHOOL (Presidents Day)
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 27
Test
3: Nineteenth Century
FEB 28 Anglo-America
and
Australia
(739-743; 796-800)
FEB 29
Anglo-America
and
Australia
MAR 1
Latin
America
(645-651; 801-807)
MAR 2
The
Middle East
MAR 5
The
Scramble for Africa
MAR 6
South
Asia and the East Indies
(767-771; 791-795)
MAR 7
East Asia
MAR 8
Review
MAR 9
Test
4: The Age of Imperialism
Term
3 Ends
SPRING BREAK
MAR 19
The Great
War Begins (812-828)
MAR 20
Life in the Trenches
MAR 21
The Treaty of Versailles
MAR 22 The
Russian
Revolution
(839-845)
MAR 23 Lenin
and Stalin
(904-911)
MAR 26
The Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics and Animal Farm
MAR 27
Review
MAR 28
Test
5: World War
I and the Russian Revolution
MAR 29 The West
between the Wars
(881-893)
MAR 30 Worldwide
Nationalism
(858-861; 865-868)
APR 2
The Rise
of Fascism
(894-902; 926)
APR 3 Hitler
(912-917)
APR 4
Nazi
Germany
APR 5
Nazi
Germany
APR 6
NO SCHOOL (Good
Friday)
APR 9
NO SCHOOL (Easter
Monday)
APR 10
The Final Solution (935-937)
APR 11 Blitzkrieg
(930-934)
APR 12 The Rise
of Japan (874-877)
APR 13
The Rise
of Japan (874-877)
APR 16
War in
the Pacific (869-873; 937-940)
APR 17
War in
the Mediterranean
(940-942)
APR 18 The
Eastern Front and D-Day
(942-947)
APR 19 The Tide
Turns
(948-950)
APR 20 The
Atomic Age
(950-953)
APR 23
Review
APR 24
Test
6: World War II
APR 25 The
Post-War World
(954-956; 962-969)
APR 26 The Iron
Curtain
(970-974)
APR 27
Two
Chinas and Two Koreas
(985-991)
APR 30
The Korean War
MAY 1
The War
in Vietnam
(992-997)
MAY 2
Primary Sources from the Vietnam War
MAY 3 The End
of Empire
(1014-1023)
MAY 4
Review
MAY 7
Test
7: The Cold War
MAY 8
NO SCHOOL
MAY 9 The Fall
of Communism
(998-1007; 1042-1047)
MAY 10 The Fall
of Communism
(998-1007; 1042-1047)
MAY 11 The
European Union
* (1096-1098)
MAY 14
Post-Colonial
Africa
(1024-1031)
MAY 15
The Consequences of Colonialism (1048-1053)
MAY 16
The
Modern Middle East
(1032-1037)
MAY 17
Islamic Revolution
MAY 18 Terrorism
(1054-1059; 1115-1119)
MAY 21 The
Development of Latin America
(1082-1088)
MAY 22
The Rise
of Asia
(983-984; 1076-1080; 1099)
MAY 23
NO SCHOOL Review
MAY 24
Test 8: A
MAY 25 Final Exam Review *
MAY 28
NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day)
MAY 29
Final Exam Review
MAY
30 Final
Exam
This page last updated 4
May, 2012.
