Breif Syllabus for 9th Grade World History

Course Description:

World History

Grade: 9

Instructor: Cook

Each student will be given a multiple page syllabus that they are required to keep and fill out every day that they are in class. This web page is designed to be a brief summary of that syllabus. Parents: Please ask your student to show you their paper syllabus.

This class will be required to adhere to all "Seven Summits" notebook guidelines.

This class will cover all of world history. We will take off in August with discussion about what it means to study history and how it started. The flow of the class will be based off of the book “A Little History of the World” By E.H. Gombrich.

This class will be focused mainly on the Revolutions that have taken place thorough out World History. For example, we will cover the beginning of writing, the emergence of philosophy and republic, and the Roman empire... all the way up to the Industrial and Technical Revolutions. It will be a broad survey course that blooms around the ideas of Revolutionaries and their movements. Some of the main characters we will cover will be: Hammurabi, Ashoka, Confucius, Che, Hitler, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Gautama/Buddha, Christ, Alexander the Great, Mao, Marx, Lenin, Martin Luther, King Henry VIII, Gutenberg, Stalin and Bono.

This class is an overview of all of world history. It will not be a European history class, but rather a full world history class that covers each continent equally. This class will leave out the study of American History, except for as it pertains to the rest of the world.

This class will be graded primarily on projects, in class work and discussion. My aim is to cultivate the whole-historian. Students will learn both the content of history and the process. They will do research papers and projects that have a dual purpose: to learn the history and to know how to research and cite. All students will be required to follow the MLA standards as outlined in our Style Manual on all activities.

The end of each semester will culminate in a final project.

This class will be interactive and fun. I aim to never repeat an activity. Students who are ready to participate will never be bored.

Students completing this class with a grade of C or above can be confident that they have a well-rounded overview of world history.