Lesson Plans: R.

Grace Room J216

Course: AP World History Onate High School
Week of: Sept 14-16
Course Description: Onate High School students will identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and
turning points in World History in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.

Benchmark(s) covered

Topic/Focus

1-D. Skills: use critical thinking skills to understand and communicate perspectives of individuals, groups and societies from multiple contexts. 2A: analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools, knowledge, skills, and perspectives and apply them to explain the
past, present and future in terms of patterns, events and issues.

Content Objectives

Performance Standard(s) covered

Activities/assessments (strategies) used to

meet objectives

Students will:
Early Complex
Societies in the
River Valley
Civilizations

1.

2.
Mesoamerica
and Oceana

Analyze the Early

complex Societies,
3500 to 500 B.C.E.
Explain and evaluate
contributions of
significant
Individuals or
historical times in
politics, economics,
or society.

2. Understand how to use the skills of

historical analysis to apply to current social,
political, geographic and economic issues;
3. Apply chronological and spatial thinking to
understand the importance of events;
4. Describe primary and secondary sources
and their uses in research;
5. Explain how to use a variety of historical
research methods and documents to
interpret and understand social issues (e.g.,
the friction among societies, the
diffusion of ideas)
6. Interpret events and issues based upon
the historical, economic, political, social and
geographic context of the participants;

Literacy
Key Ideas and Details
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Map: River Valley Civilizations

Key Vocabulary Chapter 6 pages 107124
Cornell notes: Early Mesoamerica and
Oceana (Homework)
Notebook Check #1 (Peer Evaluation)
Study Guide Quiz #4

Differentiation:
1.

Redo any assignments not meeting

proficiency (80% or higher)

Resources/Materials:
7. Analyze the evolution of particular
historical and contemporary perspectives
1. Evaluate and select appropriate
geographic representations to analyze and
explain natural and man-made issues and
problems

EPSS/Common Core
Standards

1.
2.
3.

Textbook: Traditions and Encounters

Teacher developed assignments
Computer/Projector

Critical Focus Questions:

Does Religion play a bigger role in early

Mesoamerica societies than it did in the other
societies we have covered?

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.910.2 Determine the

central ideas or
information of a primary
or secondary source;
provide an accurate
summary of how key
events or ideas develop
over the course of the
text.
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.910.4 Determine the
meaning of words and
phrases as they are used
in a text, including
vocabulary describing
political, social, or
economic aspects of
history/social science.
Range of Reading and
Level of Text Complexity

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.910.10 By the end of

grade 10, read and
comprehend
history/social studies
texts in the grades 910
text complexity band
independently and
proficiently.