Geography Review |
Year-long Essential Question:How can an individual affect change? |
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During the 2008-2009 school-year we will be studying how individuals can affect change, and have affected change, throughout global history. Our study will take us from the wake of the Renaissance, through the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and up to and including the ongoing genocide in Sudan. This journey will culminate in an attempt to address global issues plaguing the world today by creating an individual proposal for how to affect change . Along the way we will focus our learning through the use of Essential Questions. These questions will force us to look at the big ideas, allow each of of you to forumulate his or her own opinion, and force you to produce an argument steeped in evidence to support your claim. |
For each unit, which will be guided by a specific Essential Question, you will complete a paragraph each night responding to that day's teaching point, one or two DBQ essays, a seminar discussion responding to the Essential Question and a timed in-class essay exam responding to the Essential Question. |
How does this class prepare you for the Global History Regents?The Global History and Geography Regents Exam in New York State is based on the entirety of the Global Hisory curriculum - from the beginning of 9th grade to the end of 10th grade - covering prehistory to the present day. The exam is 50 multiple choice questions, 13 short answer questions, a DBQ essay and a thematic essay. The content that is covered in this class is in line with the content covered on the Regents exam. For each content unit, you will be quizzed using old Regents questions based on that content. Throughout the entire year we will work with annotating primary source documents, thus preparing you for the short answer part of the exam. Lastly, you will be writing, at minimum, 2 essays per marking period. This will refine your historical writing and build up your endurance in preparation for the timed exam essays. |
