7TH GRADE ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY

2016 - 2017 - Ms. Allan

Email Address:
Website:
Tutoring:
Remind:

kathleen.allan@eaton-academy.com
msallan7thworldhistory.weebly.com
3:45-4:30 p.m. by appointment
Text class code: @b2ebg to 81010 to receive
reminders and assignment updates

COURSE OVERVIEW: The seventh grade social studies curriculum focuses on early world history and
geography with a deliberate focus on the content literacy. Students investigate human history from the
beginning until around 1500. They explore major and significant changes in each era through a chronological
organization. Students learn about the earliest humans and explore early migration and settlement patterns.
In studying the origins of farming and its impact upon emerging human cultures, students analyze evidence
from the fields of archaeology and anthropology, and employ a wide range of data sources including
artifacts, photographs, and geographic information. Students examine how the emergence of pastoral and
agrarian societies set the stage for the development of powerful empires, trade networks, and the diffusion of
people, resources, and ideas. Extending students study of world history through Era 4 (300 CE 1500

CE) places world religions and development of empires in the Americas (Aztecs, Incas, Mayans) in
their historical context. The rise and fall of empires, as well as the nomadic groups in Afro-Eurasia,
generated new zones of cultural and commercial exchange that linked regions across the world and
enabled ideas to spread. Students also examine the development of belief systems in their historical
context. These new belief systems had distinctive beliefs, texts, and rituals. Each shaped cultures by
developing ethical practices and establishing codes within which diverse people were able to
communicate and interact, often well beyond their local neighborhood. In doing so, students consider
why some belief systems grew into world religions. In studying the precursors to the meeting of the
Three Worlds, students expand their view of human history and begin to see the story of the United
States in a more global context. The course concludes with students analyzing global patterns of
continuity and change over time, and using evidence to construct historical arguments about the past.
UNITS OF STUDY
Trimester 1: (Sept 6 -Dec 2, 2016)
Unit 1: Identity and Community
Unit 2: Intro to World History
Unit 3: Beginning of Human Societies

Trimester 3: (Mar 13 - June 16, 2016)

Unit 6: Interactions & Fall of Empires Part 2
Unit 7: Patterns of Adaptation
Unit 8: Converging Patterns

Trimester 2: (Dec 5, 2016 - Mar 10, 2017)

Unit 4: Early Civilizations and Pastoral Peoples
Unit 5: The Rise of Classical Empires
Unit 6: Interactions & Fall of Empires P1
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
2" or larger three ring binder
(2) 70 count spiral notebooks-college ruled
(2) two pocket folders
pens (black/blue preferred)
12 pack of # 2 pencils and erasers

12 pack of color pencils

(1) pack of college ruled notebook paper
3-4 highlighters (yellow, blue, green and/or pink
(1) plastic 12" rule
plastic pencil sharpener

HOMEWORK : Students will be assigned homework which will include vocabulary

words, assigned readings, related weekly assignments, studying for quizzes and/or tests, and projects
with related rubrics throughout each Trimester. These will be posted on my website and those signed
up for REMIND will receive text reminders of due dates.

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LATE WORK : According to the middle school late work policy, students who do not turn in an
assignment on the date it is due will have one week from the original due date to turn in the
assignment at a 20% grade deduction. Assignments turned in after one week will receive zero credit.
Extenuating circumstances will be considered on an individual basis.
ABSENT WORK: When students are absent, it is their responsibility to obtained missed assignments
from their teachers. Students are only allowed time equal to their number of days of absence to
submit make-up work. (i.e. one day absent equals one day for makeup)
GRADING: (per trimester)
student will be required to keep an interactive binder of classroom work (20%)
complete reading/writing assignments aligned with Common Core Standards/homework (5%)
pass tests (40%) (with emphasis placed on scoring 70% or greater)
pass quizzes (20%)
complete projects and participation (15%)
CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS
All rules as stated in the Eaton Academy Student Handbook are in effect. In addition, please observe
the following schoolwide expectations:
1. Respect - yourself, your classmates, your teacher, and their belongings
2. Be Responsible- Be prepared to learn. Bring necessary supplies to class every day.
3. Be Safe - do not participate in any activity that could be harmful to you or others.
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