Foundations+Unit

What students need to know
 * __Foundations Unit__**

Topic 1: From hunter gatherers to civilization Topic 2: Classical China Topic 3: Classical India Topic 4: Classical Rome and Greece
 * **Week** || **Readings and Assignments** || **Resources/Links** ||
 * 1-2 || **Reading: Stearns, Chapter 1-From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations**

|| Confucianism: Government and the Superior (551-479 BCE)
 * Review summer reading assignment
 * Introduction to ESPIRIT charts
 * Register for technology accounts
 * What does it take to be a civilization?
 * Doing World History
 * Neolithic Revolution
 * Yali's Question
 * Early Civilization Comparison
 * Hammurabi's Law Code APPARTS
 * Rise of Sumerian City States Problem Solving
 * Create a virtual notebook || [[file:summer assignment.doc]]
 * 3. || **Reading: Stearns, Chapter 2 Classical China**
 * Introduction to the DBQ
 * Leadership Analysis of Qin ShiHuangdi
 * Mapping Physical features of China - Google Earth
 * Chinese Philosophies Voicethread || [[file:DBQ+Point+of+View+Introduction.doc]]

Daoism: The Classic of the Way and Virtue (500s-400s BCE)

Legalism: The Way of the State (475-221 BCE)

www.voicethread.com || How 21st century skills can help you become Buddha ||
 * 4 || **Reading: Stearns, Chapter 3 Classical India**
 * Caste system analysis
 * Religion and Culture in India
 * Comparison Exercise between classical India and China
 * Buddhism and 21st century skills || Buddhism Video
 * 5 || **Reading: Stearns Chapter 4 Mediterranean Civilizations**
 * Rise of Greek City States - Sparta and Athens
 * Greek Philosophers presentation
 * Comparing Han China and Rome ESSAY
 * Reasons for the fall of Rome
 * Roman Slavery || Comparing Athens and Sparta (5th c BCE)

Greek and Roman Slavery

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 * 6 ||  || [[file:City States in the americas.pdf]] ||