WORLD HISTORY SYLLIBUS
Mr. El-Amin Rm 251
“We Make Thinking Citizens Out of Students”
Goal 1: Create an environment in which students come ready and motivated to learn.
Goal 2: Facilitate the development of academic and practical skills to prepare students to be able to research, think critically, study, and think on their own.
Goal 3: Through the study of World History, analyzing political, social, economic, geographical, and individual factors that led to significant events like the European Renaissance, Chinese Red Revolution, & Islamic Golden Age students will become that much more aware of their own and other cultural environments and ready to take on the challenges of political and social responsibility in their own lives.
Skill Sets: Reading
Scope: 1st Semester: 1300 AD European Renaissance- European Imperialism
2nd Semester: 1914 AD WWI-Present
Cultural Histories: Europe, Islamic Civilization, Asia, Africa
Tests: 100-200 pts: Fill-In Blank, Identification or Matching, Short Answers, Short Essays (BCR) or Essay.
Projects: 100-200 pts: Short Stories (Genocide & European Imperialism), (Shakespeare) Presentations, Essays (ECR)
Homework: Book Notes or Section Reviews, Vocab Flash Cards, Worksheets, BCR Short Essays, Movie Reviews
Five Paragraph Political Essay: Jimmy Carter called Israel
Classwork: Participation, Behavior, Readers, Socratic Seminars
* Read every night to increase knowledge, vocabulary, and imagination.
Extra Credit: Book Review – Two Pages: 1pg Summary & 1pg Critique 30 test pts.
1st Semester: Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 Classical Fiction
or Wretched of the Earth- Franz Fanon 1961 Non-fiction
2nd Semester: 1984 –George Orwell 1949 Classical fiction or
Golden Age of the Moor – Dr. Ivan van Sertima 1991 Non-fiction 
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