World History and Geography

Unit 6 Global Convergence

Mon 1/5
Welcome Back + Current
Events Day

Tue 1/6
How did global
convergence impact
people around the world?

Wed 1/7
How did global
convergence impact
people around the world?

Thu 1/8
How did global
convergence impact
people around the world?

Fri 1/9
How did global
convergence impact people
around the world?

Utilize demographic data

to infer and predict the
causes and consequences
of global convergence.

Predict and categorize

where common foods
originated Afroeurasia or
the Americas?

Analyze world almanac

data in order to determine
the effects of the
Columbian Exchange on
todays world.

Read a secondary source

text in order to determine
the impact of global
convergence.

Assign recipe assignment.

BW: preknowledge of
exploration/glob
al convergence
Unit hook: the
spice trade
students will
work together to
identify spices
as a motivation
for exploration.
Analyzing
demographic
data (WS)

Recipe
assignment DUE
recipe analysis
for place of
origin (prediction
and then
confirmation)
Wrap-up:
Columbian
Exchange

BW: effects of
the Columbian
Exchange
Almanac data
Columbian
Exchange
discussion
questions

Determine the
bias/perspective of a
secondary source text and
cite textual evidence to
support conclusions.
-

BW: review
Burning Books
and Destroying
Peoples reading

Mon 1/12

Tue 1/13

Wed 1/14 Early Release

Thu 1/15

Fri 1/16

What happened when

Montezuma met Cortes?

What happened when

Montezuma met Cortes?

Analyze primary and

secondary source
documents in order to
determine what happened
when Montezuma met
Cortes.

Analyze primary and

secondary source
documents in order to
determine what happened
when Montezuma met
Cortes.

How did global

convergence impact
people of Africa and the
Americas?

How did global

convergence impact
people of Africa and the
Americas?

How did different groups

perceive what happened
during and after European
exploration.

Analyze Rene Depestres

poem Black Ore and cite
textual evidence to support
analysis

Explain and illustrate the

triangle trade.

Take on the role of a

historical group in order to
represent their perspective
on different historical
events.

BW: Weekends
SHEG:
Montezuma and
Cortes textbook
(as an
overview/backgr
ound)
SHEG:
document A
SHEG:
document B
Mon 1/19 MLK Day

BW: current
opinion on
historical
question
SHEG:
document B
(finish)
SHEG:
document C
Final
conclusions

Explain how colonization

and disease in the
Americas led resulted in
the African slave trade.
-

BW: Review the

causes of
slavery
according to
Depestre
Map the triangle
trade

BW: Review
Montezuma and
Cortes
Black Ore
poem analysis
and discussion

BW: internal
monologue one
paragraph from
the perspective of
someone living
during Global
Convergence
Perspectives on
History (ppt)

Tue 1/20
How were people affected
by global connections and
how did different groups
perceive these affects?

Wed 1/21
How were people affected
by global connections and
how did different groups
perceive these affects?

Thu 1/22
How were people affected
by global connections and
how did different groups
perceive these affects?

Fri 1/23
How were people affected
by global connections and
how did different groups
perceive these affects?

Synthesize two different

perspectives on global
convergence into a
dialogue poem which
effectively blends
perspective taking with
historical knowledge.

Synthesize two different

perspectives on global
convergence into a
dialogue poem which
effectively blends
perspective taking with
historical knowledge.

Synthesize two different

perspectives on global
convergence into a
dialogue poem which
effectively blends
perspective taking with
historical knowledge.

Peer evaluate student

created dialogue poems on
the effects of global
convergence.

BW: weekends
Introduction to
dialogue poems
Example
dialogue poem
evaluation
Dialogue poem
partners/work
time.

Dialogue poem
work time

Dialogue poem
work time

Dialogue Poem
peer evaluation