
NINTH
GRADE
World
History: 1500 to the Present
In the ninth grade, students develop strong personal opinions, beliefs, or positions on current issues and events of the past. Teachers capitalize on this characteristic to stress the importance of grounding positions and opinions in knowledge. As students transition from middle school to high school, they can understand and use complex concepts such as adaptation, assimilation, acculturation, diffusion, and historical knowledge and inquiry to study the past, its relationship to the present, and its impact on the future. Students in Grade 9 are able to think critically and logically about personal, national, and global issues. This enables them to apply and utilize their knowledge and curiosity to develop informed opinions about issues such as the quest for peace, human rights, trade, and global ecology.
At the ninth-grade level, students continue the study of world history from 1500 to the present. Critical thinking and analysis are important in this course. Through historical inquiry, students gain an understanding and appreciation of history as a story of people much like themselves and become increasingly able to understand global interdependence and connections among world societies. The course directs students to think critically about the forces that combine to shape the world today. It allows them to analyze development and changes in the European, Asian, African, and American civilizations and ways in which the interactions of these cultures have influenced the formation of today’s world. Knowledge of other cultures enables students to develop a better appreciation of the unique American heritage of liberty. Geographic concepts increase learners’ comprehension of global connections as they expand their knowledge and understanding of a wide variety of cultures, both historical and contemporary.
Ninth-grade students continue to have preferred learning styles. Therefore, the use of a variety of instructional strategies and techniques is effective in helping students gain the knowledge and skills this course requires. Well-equipped classrooms include a variety of visual stimuli such as charts, globes, graphs, and maps. Multiple opportunities are provided for students to participate in the educational process through the use of electronic and print media and small-group interaction.
Cherokee County Schools:
This document correlates the Alabama Course of Study:
Social Studies content standards with the Alabama High School
Graduation Exam (AHSGE) and the state/county adopted textbooks. Information in the columns labeled NCLB
Reading/Writing and Resources is suggested.
All material in the column labeled Alabama Course of Study is
minimum and required content for instruction.
Directions: The locations of the course of study standards
in the text are in the first column of the local document and are listed by
chapter and section. The second column
contains state standards followed by dominant strands. The standards are presented in the order they
appear in the state course of study document.
The third column includes an AHSGE correlation, if indicated. The last two columns are the suggested
resources for reading/writing strategies and additional information on the
standard.
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Alabama Course of Study |
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G
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H
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PS
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Alabama High
School Graduation Exam
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NCLB
Reading/Writing |
Resources
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5/1; 5/2; 5/3 |
1.
Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance
period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual
development, increased trade, and advances in technology. |
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X |
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Text
Companion Writer’s
Guidebook Lesson
1 |
Time
Lines & More |
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6/1; 6/2; 6/3; 8/1 |
2.
Describe the role of mercantilism and imperialism in European exploration and
colonization in the sixteenth century, including the Columbian Exchange. ·Describing
the impact of the Commercial Revolution on European society ·Identifying
major ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates affecting
European exploration Example:
marking ocean currents and wind patterns on a map |
X |
X |
X |
X |
I-1 Identify and evaluate America’s exploration,
development, and divergence |
Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
1 |
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7/1; 7/2; 7/4 |
3.
Explain causes of the Reformation and its impact, including tensions between
religious and secular authorities, reformers and doctrines, the
Counter-Reformation, the English Reformation, and wars of religion. |
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X |
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I-1 Identify and evaluate America’s exploration,
development, and divergence |
Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
2 |
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6/1; 6/2; 6/3; 8/1; 8/2;
8/3; 9/1; 9/2; 9/3 |
4.
Explain the relationship between physical geography and cultural development
in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age, including trade
and travel, natural resources, and movement and isolation of peoples and
ideas. ·Depicting
the general location of, size of, and distance between regions in the early
Global Age Example:
drawing sketch maps |
X |
X |
X |
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Text
Companion Writer’s
Guidebook Lesson
5 |
Great
Wall of China |
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7/1; 7/2; 7/3; 7/4; 10/2;
10/3; 10/4; |
5.Describe
the rise of absolutism and constitutionalism and their impact on European
nations. ·Contrasting
philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the belief in the divine
right of kings ·Comparing
absolutism as it developed in France, Russia, and Prussia, including the
reigns of Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great ·Identifying
major provisions of the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights |
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X |
X |
II-1
Recognize and comprehend the impact of the influences of intellectual and
religious thought on the political systems II-2 Identify and comprehend the provisions of
essential documents of the government |
Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
3 |
http://mn.essortment.com/hobbeslocke_rbtz.htm, |
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10/1; 10/2; 10/3; 10/4;
12/4; 13/4 |
6.
Identify significant ideas and achievements of scientists and philosophers of
the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. Examples:
Scientific Revolution—astronomical theories of Copernicus and Galileo,
Newton’s law of gravity; Age
of Enlightenment—philosophies of Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau |
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X |
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Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
6 |
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/ |
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11/1; 11/2; 11/3; 12/1;
12/2 |
7.
Describe the impact of the French Revolution on Europe, including political
evolution, social evolution, and diffusion of nationalism and liberalism. ·Identifying
causes of the French Revolution ·Describing
the influence of the American Revolution upon the French Revolution ·Identifying
objectives of different groups participating in the French Revolution ·Describing
the role of Napoleon as an empire builder |
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X |
X |
X |
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Text
Companion Writer’s
Guidebook Lesson
13 |
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/french/french.html |
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14/3; 14/4; |
8.
Compare revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Haiti,
Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. ·Identifying
the location of countries in Latin America |
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X |
X |
X |
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Text
Companion Writer’s
Guidebook Lesson
14 |
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12/1; 13/1; 13/2; 16/3 |
9.
Describe the impact of technological inventions, conditions of labor, and the
economic theories of capitalism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism during
the Industrial Revolution on the economics, society, and politics of Europe. ·Identifying
important inventors in Europe during the Industrial Revolution ·Comparing
the Industrial Revolution in England with later revolutions in Europe |
X |
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X |
X |
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Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
7 |
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Industrial_Revolution.html |
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12/2; 12/3; 12/4; 13/1;
13/2; 13/3; 13/4 |
10.
Describe the influence of urbanization during the nineteenth century on the
Western World. Examples:
interaction with the environment, provisions for public health, increased
opportunities for upward mobility, changes in social stratification,
development of Romanticism and Realism, development of Impressionism and
Cubism ·Describing
the search for political democracy and social justice in the Western World Examples:
European Revolution of 1848, slavery and emancipation in the United States,
emancipation of serfs in Russia, universal manhood suffrage, women’s suffrage |
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X |
X |
X |
V-2
Evaluate the concepts, developments, and consequences of industrialization
and urbanization |
Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
8 |
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8/3; 9/1; 9/2; 10/3; 10/4;
12/3; 13/3; 14/1; 14/2; 14/3; 14/4; 15/1; 15/2; 15/3; |
11.
Describe the impact of European nationalism and Western imperialism as forces
of global transformation, including the unification of Italy and Germany, the
rise of Japan’s power in East Asia, economic roots of imperialism,
imperialist ideology, colonialism and national rivalries, and United States
imperialism. ·Describing
resistance to European imperialism in Africa, Japan, and China |
X |
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X |
X |
VI-1 Evaluate the causes of World War I |
Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
9 |
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16/1; 16/2; 16/3; 16/4;
17/1 |
12.
Explain causes and consequences of World War I, including imperialism,
militarism, nationalism, and the alliance system. ·Describing
the rise of Communism in Russia during World War I Examples:
return of Vladimir Lenin, rise of Bolsheviks ·
Describing military technology used during World War I ·Identifying
problems created by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 Examples:
Germany’s reparations and war guilt, international controversy over the
League of Nations ·Identifying
alliances during World War I and boundary changes after WW I |
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X |
X |
X |
VI-1 Evaluate the causes of World War I VI-2 Analyze the effects of World War I |
Text
Companion Reading
in The Content Area Lesson
13 |
Treaty
of Versailles http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=424 |
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15/2; 17/1; 17/4; 18/1;
18/2; 18/3; 18/4; |
13.
Explain challenges of the post-World War I period. Examples:
1920s cultural disillusionment, colonial rebellion and turmoil in Ireland and
India, attempts to achieve political stability in Europe ·Identifying
causes of the Great Depression ·Characterizing
the global impact of the Great Depression |
X |
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X |
X |
V-2
Evaluate the concepts, developments, and consequences of industrialization
and urbanization VII-1 Analyze the advent and impact of the Great
Depression and the New Deal on American life VI-2
Analyze the effects of World War I |
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17/2; 17/3; 18/2; 19/1;
19/2; 19/3; 19/4; |
14.Describe
causes and consequences of World War II. Examples:
causes—unanswered aggression, Axis goal of world conquest; consequences—changes
in political boundaries; Allied goals; lasting issues such as the Holocaust,
Atomic Age, and Nuremberg Trials ·Explaining
the rise of militarist and totalitarian states in Italy, Germany, the Soviet
Union, and Japan ·Identifying
turning points of World War II in the European and Pacific Theaters ·Depicting
geographic locations of world events between 1939 and 1945 ·Identifying
on a map changes in national borders as a result of World War II |
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X |
X |
X |
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