Cycle 2
Curriculum Cover Page and Student Orientation
Objectives and Overview:
o An Exciting Overview of World History with Language Arts, Geography, Literature, Writing and more from 3500 BC to the present!
o What you will do:
1. Gain life skills while learning how to do research
2. Study scientists, inventions and explorers like Hanno to Stephen Hawkings, Columbus to Calypso, from the Wheel to the Web, from the Stone Age to the Space Age
3. Travel through time
4. See through the eyes of those who lived it!
5. Learn to think critically with questions like
• What was their motivation?
• What are the ethical consequences?
• Was this helpful or harmful to society?
6. Geography – map the routes of the explorers and learn world geography, crops, topography and more!
7. Read biographies, historical fiction, cultural studies, and most varieties of reference materials
8. Construct a timeline of people and events being studied
9. Create a coursebook which will be an organized “album” of your work, including drawings, articles, pictures, completed assignments, study guides etc.