Description
World History is a full year course of transcriptable high school social science that explores the period from the invention of agriculture (around 10,000 BCE) to the modern day while developing critical skills in source analysis, writing and cause-effect relationships. This secular but inclusive full year hybrid course is offered in Naperville as a full year elective course with in-person class meetings once/week for 1.5 hour with additional work done between classes qualifying for 1 full credit of transcriptable social science.
World History
In-person class Tuesdays, 9:00-10:25 am with an additional approximately 2 to 2-1/2 hours of work to be done between classes. (Parents may opt to enroll in our Flex Work Session/s to contribute toward completing work done outside of regular class time)
Registration is for the full 2024-25 school year.
Through multiple readings, projects and activities, students will come to see the history of our world with an emphasis on some key themes:
- Community and Hierarchy: the ways human societies are organized and led, and why
- Migration and Exchange: the movement of people, goods, and ideas around the world
- Humans and the Environment: how humans have shaped and altered their natural environment, and have themselves been shaped by the environment
- Progress and its Consequences: learning to think about history as a fluctuating and unpredictable narrative, and bear in mind that what was progress for some brought disastrous consequences for others
Required Course Materials
- 1″ to 1-1/2″ 3-ring binder
- Filler paper
- Black or blue ballpoint pens and pencils
- One set of colored pencils (at least 4 different colors–red, yellow, blue and green)
- Ruler
Additionally, students will need technical ability to access Zoom, Nearpod.com, Discovery Education Streaming, Study.com and Canvas (our learning management system).
At home, students will need access to the internet (home or library) to look up information, related published materials and/or videos and do work through our class learning management system. Some videos will be subscription-based and issued by illuminat-ED (all students will have accounts for Discovery Streaming and Study.com for additional video support). Some videos will be freely available.
Amount of time will depend on your student’s unique speed/fluency with writing, reading or the topic at hand and the content of the week. Families should allocate approximately 2-3 hours/week (depending on student’s work speed with regards to writing) of individual work in preparation for live class. Some of this can be done during Flex Work Time at our facility.
Combined with our live class time, this is a total of 3-1/2 to 4 hours/week for a course total of 112-128 hours. This equates to one full credit of Social Science using the Carnegie unit methodology.
This course will require students to interact with historical content that can sometimes be more mature or unpleasant–sometimes dealing with death, slavery, criminal acts of humanity, race issues, etc. and the will learn how to discuss difficult topics productively. However, students should be at a maturity level to be ready for this type of learning. Students will perform weekly writing assignments that can include an essay each month as the course moves onward.
Varied cultural and religious factors that contribute to human systems will be discussed in-class and the students will need to participate in these discussions in a respectful and mature manner.
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