Unit Plan Cover Page

Unit Title: Imperialism: Industry and Colonization Time Frame: 2 weeks

Course: World History Grade Level: 9 th Grade

CURRICULUM/STANDARDS
List all appropriate national, state or district curriculum or standards that align to this unit. You don’t need to write out the entire standard, but give me
the title of the standards document you are using and the relevant standard/PO numbers.

Strand 2, Concept 7, PO 1-6

KEY THEMES/QUESTIONS
List the key themes/questions that are guiding this unit:

Disparity of power leads to oppression. Was imperialism/colonialism good or bad?

What was the experience of indigenous people? How did industrialization drive imperialism?

ASSESSMENT
List the assessments that will be used to gauge student learning. This may include traditional quizzes or exams, as well as major learning activities such
as simulations, labs, etc.

Unit exam utilizing multiple choice and short answer questions. Poem on indigenous experience.

A five-paragraph essay using primary sources to make an argument.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS
List all resources (copyrighted or otherwise) that you will need to teach this unit. This should be a comprehensive list of all resources you will need to
create or borrow (including textbook chapters, additional readings, videos, power points and teaching notes, handouts, assessments, etc.)

Lecture Materials: PowerPoint covering industrialization and the Middle Class, Nationalism, Colonial Roots: The Dutch East India Company,
Colonial Geography and Natural Resources
Textbook: Glencoe World History, Unit 4 chapters 19-22
Videos: Ten minute histories: The Late British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifyFUL22PA , The Belgian Congo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcF9fmTzqkg , Zulu clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUeq2XT8czg

Handouts: Colonial Map Notetaker, Southeast Asia Worksheet

Readings/Primary Sources: Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden, Edward Morel’s The Black Man’s Burden excerpt, Primary source photo
collage http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/africa/

Unit Calendar

(For each class period, list the topic of the day, as well as main learning activities. You may list standards if you choose.)
(Insert or delete days of the week as appropriate for your school district calendar. Add or delete weeks depending on the length of your unit.)

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Feb 5
U.S. States Resource
Simulation, Anticipatory
Set / Class Activity
Direct Instruction: Group Activity: Direct Instruction: Bookwork:
Industrialization Power World resources mapping, Dutch East India Company, Ch. 21, South East Asia
Point / Notes with notetaker Power Point / Notes worksheet

Feb 12
Direct Instruction:
The British Empire
Power Point / Notes,
Ten Min. History Video
Group Activity:
Slave Labor Primary
Sources,
Rudyard Kipling, The White
Man’s Burden, photo
collage
Belgian Congo Video
Group Work: Primary
Source Analysis, The Black
Man’s Burden, photo
collage
Direct Instruction:
Poetry as a primary source,
Elements of Poetry,
Poem Assignment, work in
class
Direct Instruction:
Colonial Resistance, The
Sepoy and Boxer
Rebellion, Anglo-Zulu
War
Zulu clip
HW Essay Assignment