3.6th+Grade+World+History++Class+152

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Middle East and Africa: Agricultural Revolutions and their Impact **Sub-Questions:** How does agricultural technology influence cultures: women's roles, economic development, world hunger? **Historical Themes/Key Content Topics:** Irrigation and geographic climates, slavery **C.C.S.S.:** Explanatory Writing; Summarizing, Cause and Effect, positive and negative RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support **Readings:** The Big Mac Factor: How the cheeseburger is an economic indicator today;
 * How come food is so cheap, ****but still so many starve? **

The Carbon Footprint [|Vegan Burger vs. Meat Burger] Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution: Ancient and modern wars over food; [|The Plough and the Now (Economist)] Agrarian vs. Urban Societies and the Role of Women

**Sub-Questions:** Do religious leaders unify or divide the world? How do the values of religions compare? How do these influence the laws, art, and culture in a society? **Historical Themes/Key Content Topics:** Divine Right monarchy/Mandate of Heaven absolute rulers, comparing laws, values and codes of justice, movements of people, RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support **Readings:** "After Death Experience," modern article on beliefs today; myths of Isis and Osiris and the impact of religion on Egypt through the biographies of: Ramses, Hatshepsut, lives of Moses, Confuscius, Budha/Siddhartha,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 190%;">Dying to Believe. What happens when we die? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Egyptians, Judaism, Hindu and Buddhism **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">C.C.S.S.: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Info/Explanatory Writing: Comparing religions through the lives of their leaders


 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 190%;">What makes a civilization great? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Asia--Art of Nature and Empire and warriors and pollution today...martial arts discipline and ruler, plus love of nature, geography and science of plants, trade and cultural diffusion **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Should they conquer nature? great warriors, or love of nature?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Historical Themes/Key Content Topics: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Modern issues of energy and environmentalism, silk road and global interdependence of trade, class systems based on merit vs. dynasty,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">C.C.S.S.: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Persuasive Writing

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** Wise story/fable about respecting nature; respect for nature and homeopathy <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;"> story of Olympics and effects of pollution <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;"> need to develop from starvation history of China--martial arts discipline of culture <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Pollution in China today: National Geographic Expedition

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** Pericles' speeches, biography selections and historians: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Athens vs. Sparta: king vs. democracy <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Aesop's King of the frogs <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Is the mob/ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">the majority is always right? <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,Book Antiqua,Palatino,serif;"> Rule by law: When are trials fair or unfair today? (Cases studies and debates on key controversial trials) On <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">an issue today followed researched and read about to push for a law, use graphs and math for statistics--mistakes of a democracy (Write a letter proposing an issue for Congress to legislate.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 190%;">Why does everyone want to copy Classical Greek and Rome? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Classical Greek and Rome: warriors and women leaders Civics and Government **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">What are the advantages and disadvantages of democracy? Why did Rome fall? How much is U.S. government based on Greek and Roman ideas, but also original? When is democracy right? When is it wrong?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Historical Themes/Key Content Topics: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Rule by law, habeaus corpus,
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">What is the effect of disease today? what disease should we try to wipe out...AIDS or Malaria? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 190%;">Disease and Movement of Peoples **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Middle Ages Crusades...and Renaissance: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">How much can a disease affect society? How much did medicine advance since early times?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Historical Themes/Key Content Topics: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Disease and war and the affect on culture, Muslim vs. Christian rivalries, compare cultural diffusion of their art and architecture, technology and beliefs, feudalism, rise of cities, shift to humanism, SARS, globalization
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">C.C.S.S.: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Readings: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Whisper of AIDS; Bubonic plague (song on YOUTUBE historyteachers songs), graphs, maps, statistics and science articles on epidemics.