GLOBAL Topic/unit Contents Allocated time Assessment Resources

POLITICS instruments to be
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ACADEMY
State the topics/units in the order
80 minutes.
INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL you are planning to teach them.

In one week there are 3 classes.

UNIT 1 Power, Sovereignty, 69 class periods Unit 1 = Quizzes after each Global Politics Essentials
Year 1 sub-unit (Units 1.1 - 1.4) and Pearson text.
Interdependence,
an exam on Unit 1 in its Global Politics Course
Legitimacy entirety. Current events Companion Oxford text.
UNIT 2 Human Rights, Justice, 19 class periods presentations on their “Unit 1 Heywood’s Global Politics text.
Liberty, Equality State.” Homework Multiple case studies, including:
Engagement Activity (begin Identify an issue of 4 class periods assignments. Unit 1 = Haiti, women in
Unit 2 = An exam on Unit 2 in politics, Brexit, the Rohingya,
the process) interest to the its entirety .Current events Boko Haram
student, articulate the presentations on their “Unit 2 Unit 2 = the Human Right to
students’ activities, State.” Homework Water, Refugee Health, Poverty
begin the activities, assignments. and Trafficking
EA = 1st draft due before end
and begin the written
of Year 1.
report
UNIT 3 Development, 19 class periods Unit 3 and 4 = An exam on Global Politics Essentials
Year 2
Globalization, Unit 3 and Unit 4 in their Pearson text.
entirety. Current events Global Politics Course
Inequality, presentations on their “Unit 3 Companion Oxford text.
Sustainability & 4 States.” Homework Heywood’s Global Politics text.
UNIT 4 Peace, Conflict, 20 class periods assignments. Multiple case studies, including:
Violence, Non- Engagement Activity Unit 3 = El Salvador, Haiti,
HL Extension videos Tuvalu and Kiribati
Violence Unit 4 = Syria, the annexation of
Engagement Activity (finish Finish any remaining 4 class periods Crimea, Eritrea-Ethiopia
before the end of Term 1) activities, and
complete the written
report
HL Extension (Term 2) 13 class periods