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This Home Page will cover the 7th Grade World History and Senior High World Studies classes that I teach at Moshannon Valley Middle and High School. The contact is:
The 7th Grade World History class is an integrated Language course that uses reading, mapping, writing, visuals and quite a bit of varied research skills to make select units of the history of "western" cultures come alive. We stress the "history of the everyday lives" of those who lived during Ancient and Medieval times. We also look for the connections and patterns that those societies have passed on to us so that we can draw from them today in our everyday lives. History is not boring facts and dates. It is alive and a part of us and we learn to interact with the past in this course. Modern US society has deep roots in the "old world" and we better understand ourselves when we are able to bond with our past.
Units included are:
Stone Age Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt
Ancient Mayas, Aztecs and Incas
Ancient Aegean and Greece Roman Republic and Empire
Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire
Early Medieval Society
Later Medieval Society and European Nation Building
The Senior High World Studies class is also an integrated Language course will examine and analyze the major influences on our society since the time of the European Renaissance in the 1400's. The foundations of democracy, self determination, human rights and freedom, individual dignity with a common purpose; all known as "Western values", will be studied as they were sometimes masterfully used and tragically abused. Individual and partnership research activities, visuals, writing and mapping are some of the usual class activities. The impact of the related events on common people as well as the major players in the units of study will be stressed. Units included are:
European (Italian and English) Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
Islam on the Rise
Economy Based Exploration
Absolute Rule vs. The Age of Reason
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era
Industrial Rise
Russian Roots and Russian Revolution
World War I
Nazism and World War II
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