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.


 

 

 

 

Text Location

Ch/Sec

 

Alabama Course of Study

E

G

H

PS

 

Alabama High School Graduation Exam

 

NCLB

Reading/Writing

 

Resources

 

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.

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

Text Companion

Writer’s Guidebook

Lesson 1

 

Time Lines & More

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

 

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

 

 

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.

 

 

 

X

 

 

I-1 Identify and evaluate America’s exploration, development, and divergence

 

Text Companion

Reading in The Content Area

Lesson 2

 

 

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

 

 

 

Text Companion

Writer’s Guidebook

Lesson 5

 

Great Wall of China

http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=619

 

 

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

 

 

 

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,

 

 

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

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Text Companion

Reading in The Content Area

Lesson 6

 

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/

 

 

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

 

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

 

Text Companion

Writer’s Guidebook

Lesson 13

 

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/french/french.html

 

 

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

 

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

 

Text Companion

Writer’s Guidebook

Lesson 14

 

 

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

 

 

X

 

X

 

 

Text Companion

Reading in The Content Area

Lesson 7

 

http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Industrial_Revolution.html

 

 

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

 

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

V-2 Evaluate the concepts, developments, and consequences of industrialization and urbanization

 

 

Text Companion

Reading in The Content Area

Lesson 8

 

 

 

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

 

 

X

 

X

 

VI-1 Evaluate the causes of World War I

 

 

Text Companion

Reading in The Content Area

Lesson 9

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

X

 

X

 

X