Social Studies Department

Perth Amboy High School 

 

 

World History Syllabus

 

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Course description:

This course encourages critical thinking, integrates history with geography, and makes

social and cultural connections with historical events. Students will be introduced to the

artists, musicians, literature and important people as well as to the facts of history.

The course has been written with an emphasis upon critical thinking, the development

of research skills, and expression. Although facts, dates, and people of the past are a large part of history, they do not have much meaning unless you can analyze their significance. Understanding relationships between people and events helps you make sense of the way the world is today. Understanding history requires you to think effectively. Therefore, you will be asked to translate information, interpret, determine cause and effect relationships, infer and draw conclusions, recognize points of view, detect bias, analyze to distinguish facts, opinions and values, synthesize, problem-solve, form hypotheses, and evaluate. The textbook, Pearson-World History, World Histroy rewards active reading with a dynamic structure, including sidebars and features on important people, technologies, art, literature, and key relevancies to our modern world.

Text: Pearson, World History

Participation:  Students are expected to come to class each day prepared with a notebook and either a pen or a pencil to write with.  It is also expected that all students will participate during all class discussions, class projects, group work and activities.  Any student who comes to class unprepared or is not focused on the task at hand will not receive participation credit for that day.

Assignments:  Each week reading assignments will be given from either the textbook or from handouts.  Writing assignments will be given to summarize the major ideas and themes of the week’s readings.  Students will also define vocabulary and answer questions from the book. One research paper will also be due in the middle of the second semester.  Each assignment that is handed in must have your name, course name and period, my name and the date in the right hand corner of the page.  If you are absent come see me either at the beginning or the end of class to get your missed assignments. 

Late Work: Work not turned in by the end of a chapter unit will only be accepted until the day of the chapter test.  After the date of chapter test, late work will not be accepted for a previous chapter.  Each day an assignment is late past the due date, it will be marked down ten points. You will have three days to turn in late work with verification of an excused absent without a penalty.

Research Paper:  The students will be required to complete a 10 page type written research paper on some aspect of World History.  The paper will synthesize secondary sources and include primary source documents.  The paper must include footnotes and a bibliography of sources.

Tests:  Tests will be given at the end of each chapter. A final exam will be given at the end of each marking period . It will cover all of the material studied during the marking period.

Extra Credit:  Students may earn extra credit by bringing in examples of the vocabulary and personalities used in print and writing a unique detail about it.  Students can earn up to 5% extra credit for the semester.

Grades:  Grades will be given based on completion and performance on all assignments, quizzes, and tests as well as participation.  A-100%-90%, B-89%-80%,  C-79%-70%, D-69%-65%, F-64% and below.

Participation      =   5%

Assignments     =   5%

Quizzes             = 30%

Tests                 = 60%

Total                  = 100%

  

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