Annual plan

Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year

Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit and sub- General objectives

Evaluation
topics
semester

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Teaching
methods

remark
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aids
Unit one: Early At the end of this unit , the
human beings , the students will be able to:
Neolithic  Explain the objective
Revolution and and methods of
Emergence of state studying history;
1.1 Meaning of  Describe the process of
prehistory and human evolution ;
History  Analyze state formation;

Lecture and group discussion

1.2 Early human  Analyze the
Beings and the interrelations of the

Map of world and Africa

Neolithic nations , nationalities

Test and assignment

Revolution and peoples of Ethiopia.
1.3 Emergence of
States
September

1.4 Peoples and

Semester I

languages of
Ethiopia and
Africa

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
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Date________ date _______date_________
Annual plan
Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year
Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit two: Anceint At the end of this unit , the
and classical world students will be able to:
civilization  Point out the major
2.1 General survey achievements of the
of Anceint world ancient civilizations of
civilizations; the world ;
2.2 The rise and  Analyze the conditions
spread of leading to the rise and
Christianity; spread of Christianity ;
2.3 the Aksumite  Give a brief account of
State the major progresses
2.4 the rise and attained through the
expansion of Islam. Aksumite civilization;
 Differentiate the nature
of Aksumite relations
with the outside world
and list the major
factors for the fall of

Lecture and group discussion

Aksumite civilization;
Analyze the historical
conditions that led to

Test and assignment

the origin of Islam and
the rise of Muslim Arab
Empire, and identify the
World map
Semester I

features of Muslim
October

civilization.

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
Sign_________ sign________ sign__________
Date________ date _______date_________
Annual plan
Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year
Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit Three: States At the end of this unit , the
In The Ethiopian students will be able to:
Region And The  Examine social
Horn of Africa up economic and political
to 1529 conditions in the
3.1 The Zagwe Ethiopian region ;
kingdom  Develop respect for the
3.2 The Christian distinctive histories of
Highland Kingdom the different peoples of
under Ethiopia and recognize
YekunoAmlak and their interrelated
his successors development;
3.3 Peoples and  Develop the ability to

Lecture and group discussion

states in the identify and analyze
Ethiopian Region cause and effect
and the Horn of relations in historical

Test and assignment

Africa up to 1529 study.
3.4 The dominance

Map of Ethiopia
of the Christian
Highland Kingdom
Semester I

November

over the Ethiopian

Region and the
Horn of Africa

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
Sign_________ sign________ sign__________
Date________ date _______date_________
Annual plan
Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year
Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit At the end of this unit , the
four :Medieval students will be able to:
Europe and  Explain the major
Development of characteristics of
Early capitalism European feudal society
4.1 Medieval in Medieval period ;
Europe  Outline the major
4.2 Development features of the
of early capitalism Byzantine Empire;
 Indicate the relationship
between Europe and
the Ottoman Turkish
Empire;
 Point out the major
economic activities of

Lecture and group discussion

early capitalism in

Final exam and assignment

Europe and European
December and January

explorations and
discoveries ;
 Discuss the major
achievements of the
Renaissance ; World map
Semester i

 Describe the major

characteristics of the
Reformation .

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
Sign_________ sign________ sign__________
Date________ date _______date_________
Annual plan
Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year
Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit five :Inter- At the end of this unit , the
state conflicts in students will be able to:
the Horn of Africa  Explain the basic causes
and the Oromo of the conflicts between
population the Christian Kingdom
movement and Sultanate of Adal;
5.1 relations  Explain roles of the
between the Portuguese and the
Muslim Sultanates Ottoman Turks in the
and the Christian Military conflicts in the
Highland Kingdom; Horn of Africa;
5.2 Dominance of  Identify the factors that
the Sultanate of helped the Sultanate of
Adal in the Adal to take the upper

Lecture and group discussion

Ethiopian Region hand in the conflicts ;

Map of Africa and Ethiopia

and the Horn of  Point out the long
Africa lasting consequences of

Test and assignment

5.3 Oromo the period of Adalite
population ascendancy ;
movement and  Locate the area of
Semester II

expansion Oromo settlement

February

before the 16th century

population movement;

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
Sign_________ sign________ sign__________
Date________ date _______date_________
Annual plan
Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year
Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit six : The At the end of this unit , the
Christian kingdom students will be able to:
and States in the  Explain the attempts to
rest of the use the catholic religion
Ethiopian region to serve political ends;
6.1 Catholicism  Explain factors for the
and the Christian isolation of the Christian
Kingdom kingdom of Ethiopia
6.2 The Gondar from Europe until the
period 19th century;
6.3 The  Explain the political,
ZemeneMesafint economic , and social
(the Era of conditions during the
warlords) ZemeneMesafint that
6.4 peoples and led to economic and

Lecture and group discussion

states in the political stagnation of

Map of world and Ethiopia

southern , western the kingdom
, Central and  Explain the external

Test and assignment

Eastern Ethiopia relations with the world
region outside the Horn of
6.5 European Africa.
Semester II

explorers in the
Ethiopian region in
March

the first half of the

19th century

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
Sign_________ sign________ sign__________
Date________ date _______date_________
Annual plan
Name of the school Gohatsion secondary schoolNo of days in a year
Name of the teacher Girma Niguse No of the period a year
Subject History Grade 9thfor 2015 Noof periods per-week 2
Unit Seven: At the end of this unit , the
Peoples and States students will be able to:
in pre-colonial  Explain the major
Africa and the economic ,
trans-Atlantic slave social ,cultural and
trade up to 1800 developments in the
7.1 Mamluk Egypt pre-colonial period;
7.2 Congo  Realize the inter-

World map and map of Africa

Lecture and group discussion

7.3 The khoi-khoi connections and inter-
7.4 The trans - dependence among
Atlantic Trade Africans as a result of

Test and assignment

trade, population
movements wars , etc;
 Recognize Africa
Semester II

contributions to world
civilization;
 Realize the nature of
April

slave trade
Unit Eight : At the end of this unit , the
Industrial students will be able to:
capitalism and  Discuss the
Western World consolidation of
8.1 Consolidation capitalism in early
of capitalism in modern Europe;
modern Europe  Analyze the features of
8.2The English liberal democratic
Lecture and group discussion

Revolution revolutions in England ,

Final exam and assignment

8.3 The the American colonies

Map of world and Africa

Enlightenment and France

8.4 The American  Evaluate the gradual
War of development of
May and June

Independence democracy
Semester II

8.5 The French  Analyze social, cultural,

Revolution economic and political
developments in the
Napoleonic Empire.

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Teacher’s Name GirmaNiguse Department headname________schoolv.director name________
Sign_________ sign________ sign__________
Date________ date _______date_________