Social Studies Grade 9
NHPS SOCIAL STUDIES
Grade 9 – World History – Full Year
| Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | |
| Unit Titles | UNIT 1: Early Human Culture UNIT 2: Development of Civilization |
UNIT 3: Classical Civilizations UNIT 4: Structures of Empires |
UNIT 5: The Impact of World Religions UNIT 6: Regional Civilizations |
UNIT 7: The Rise of Europe |
| Learning Outcomes | UNIT 1:
1. Explain human-environmental interaction within the context of a variety of geographic locations UNIT 2: 1. Compare civilizations based on their social, political, economic, religious, and technological (SPERT) characteristics. |
UNIT 3:
1. Describe the institutions, laws and traditions of classical governments as a function of the culture in which they developed, their influence on the lives of civilizations and other residents and their impact on the development of later forms of government 2. Evaluate the achievements of classical civilizations in terms of their impact on future civilizations. UNIT 4: 1. Analyze the political and economic structures which led to the rise and fall of empires.. |
UNIT 5:
1. Compare and contrast the beliefs and practices of major world religions – Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. 2. Analyze the importance of the spread of major religions. UNIT 6: 1. Compare and contrast regions in terms of social, economic, and political organizations. 2. Examine the interconnectedness of economic growth, urbanization, commercialization, and technical or scientific innovation. |
UNIT 7:
1. Explain how Europe integrates into the existing global trade networks on the eve of the European overseas voyages. |
| Significant Task | UNIT 1:
1. Complete research chart, compare and contrast findings, write a dialogue about the different types or agrarian and pastoral societies. UNIT 2: 1. Complete research chart and then write a CAPT like written argument. |
UNIT 3:
1. Complete a research chart as well as individual writings and graphics to create a newspaper that reflects the time period. UNIT 4: 1. Research, pre write, and devise solutions to the challenges that the empires faced, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the Empire and present them in a persuasive way. |
UNIT 5:
1. Define each of the religions, collect images that reflect those definitions, and create posters. Write an paragraphs explaining their definition of religion UNIT 6: 1. Conduct research, create a world map, compare information using the double bubble structure, and choose two of the four regions and write a paragraph comparing and contrasting. |
UNIT 7:
1. Work in groups to plan, research, design, create, and perform an historically appropriate television news broadcast concerning the relative time period. Can be about technological developments, types of products imported and exported, pastoral or nomadic cultures, arrival or Europeans as new actors in the global trading system, the existence of diaspora communities, and the role played by religious pilgrims and evangelists as cultural ambassadors. |
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