Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: The Age of New Imperialism

Name: Diana Villegas

Content Area: History

Grade Level: 10

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Content Standards:
10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries:
Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines.
1. Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism (e.g., the role played by national security and
strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material
issues such as land, resources, and technology).
2. Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain,
Portugal, and the United States.
3. Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the
people under colonial rule.
4. Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China,
and the roles of ideology and religion.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such
features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics,
including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Big Idea: What are the causes and effects of Imperialism and was it a good or bad thing?
Unit Goals:
1. students will gain an understanding of the causes of Western Imperialism during from 1870 to 1914.
2. By the end of this unit students will effectively analyze primary source documents.
3. They will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of point of view from primary sources and find similarities among
colonized countries.
4. Students will also determine whether 19th century Imperialism was overall a positive or negative experience for imperialized
nations.
Unit Summary:
By the end of this unit, students will be able to understand Imperialism in the 19 th century. They will be able to identify
Imperialist powers motives for colonizing smaller countries and analyze primary source documents from both the Imperialist and
colonized perspective. Students will be able to determine who benefitted the most and who lost in Imperialism. They will
understand that a recurring pattern exists when a country becomes overruled by another and can describe these patterns in
writing and discussion. By the end of the unit students will have an idea of how Imperialism was acted out and how it affected
India and the African continent.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Survey- What is Imperialism?

Formative:
Quote Analysis and discussion- Britain
and Kaiser Wilhelm quotes
Poetry interpretation and discussion- The
White Mans Burden by Rudyard Kipling
Lecture Discussion- How Imperialism
became successful
Discussion- closing questions
Webexercise- Responses on Berlin
Conference
Cause and Effect Diagram- British Rule in
India

Summative:
Project- Imperialism Newspaper Project
Presentation- Imperialist country news

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):

Students will be able to

understand the term
Imperialism and how it
was applied in the 19th
century. Students will
be able to identify the
difference between old
and new imperialism.
Students will be able to
explain the factors that
led to imperialism.
Students will be able to
explain why European
powers could
successfully
imperialize.
Students will be able to
identify the different
forms of imperialism.

Students will fill out

their guided notes
during lecture to use
in their group
discussions.
Students give an oral
presentation of the
reasons their country
colonized using terms
from the lecture.

Lesson Activities:

Students will listen attentively for cue terms from the lecture that will let them know
when something is important. They will fill in the blank spaces of their guided notes
that will help them with the next part of the lesson. They will then be assigned into
groups to discuss question from the lecture. Students will use their guided notes and
other sources such as the internet to research for the answers. They will know what to
look for in terms for motives of colonization they learned in class and additional
information they find. Students will present their findings and create group
discussion. The students will present their reasons behind the
successes of some countries and how these successes influenced
the behavior of other countries. The students will reflect on how
they felt in the beginning of class and how Imperialism was
beneficial for some and an issue for others.

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Students will be able to

Students will
complete their

In the second lesson the students will complete a webexercise assignment. This will

summarize the impact

Imperialism had on the
African continent.
Students will be able to
explain the causes for
European colonization
in Africa.
Students will be able to
write on the native's
perspective.

responses to their
webexercise
assignment. They will
follow the links and
research to answer
questions. They will
write small summaries
of what they learned
about the division of
the African continent.

be an individual assignment that will begin in the start of class. Students will open
their chromebooks and go on the class unit site. They will open the webexercise file
and follow the links to various websites and articles. The readings will cover the
events that led to the Berlin conference and its significance to modern world history.
After students, have completed their responses they will get into groups and share
their responses. Students will gain a better understanding in areas they found difficult
to comprehend.

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Drawing from past

lessons to identify a
pattern in
colonization, students
will understand that
Imperialism
drastically affected a
country.

Students will access a list of online resources to collect information that they will
synthesize into a cause and effect diagram they will create on CREATELY an online
mind mapping site. Students will use two online world history textbooks, a Discovery
education film, and online articles. The information they will gather into their
diagram will be used for an in-class discussion of what students think were
significant effects from imperialism.

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:

Students will be able

write the causes and
effects of British rule in
India.
Students will write a
description of the
effects using who,
what, where, and why
demonstrating their
knowledge.
Students will use
online sources to
analyze and complete a
cause and effect
diagram

Students will write

the cause and effects
of British Rule over
India in an on
diagram.

Unit Resources:
Digital Unit Site
http://theageofimperialismunit.weebly.com/
Survey
https://www.quia.com/sv/767706.html
Teacher Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo
https://www.emaze.com/@ATRTRQZI/untitled
https://www.scribd.com/document/335959255/Age-of-Imperialism-Guided-Notes - from_embed
https://quizlet.com/120825932/world-history-unit-6-the-new-imperialism-flash-cards/
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/eei/UnitDocs/Grade10/1043/1043SW.pdf
Webexercise

http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/modernworldhistorytextbook/imperialism/section_6/beforescramble.html
http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/AF/AF01-01.html
http://ed.ted.com/on/69K23qxP - watch
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his312/lectures/ber-cong.htm
http://www.historywiz.com/rubber.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw12KGSj53k

https://www.scribd.com/document/336028667/Untitled#from_embed
Concept cause and effect diagram
https://sites.google.com/a/polkschools.org/will-pack/assignments/world-history-online-textbook
https://mcsold1.monet.k12.ca.us/schools/TeacherWebsite/7-12/Garber.B/World History/CH 09 New Imperialism 284-314/Ch 9 Sec 4 text for
online.pdf
http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/modernworldhistorytextbook/imperialism/section_4/earlyindia.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBI8-eHkxgw
https://creately.com/
https://creately.com/diagram/ixw3g1sy1/YNVWABThD1zAadxcE3PMS99XHzA=
Newspaper project
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Printing_Press/
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.asp
https://www.scribd.com/document/336570152/Untitled - from_embed

Useful Websites:
http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/gallery/photos/21.html#british_raj
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kipling.asp
https://www.tes.com/lessons/yLxxsJQxfa3Vjg/new-imperialism
http://www.storyboardthat.com/teacher-guide/imperialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=alJaltUmrGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmWfbXS4Pw
http://glencoe.mheducation.com/sites/3333366666/student_view0/chapter16/primary_sources__maps_and_images.html
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/imperial.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/1907powr.htm
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/index2.html
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his312/lectures/ber-cong.htm
http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/modernworldhistorytextbook/imperialism/section_6/beforescramble.html
http://www.historywiz.com/rubber.htm
https://quizlet.com/19198103/european-imperialism-flash-cards/
http://www.storyboardthat.com/teacher-guide/imperialism
https://www.superteachertools.us/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=586638#.WHv_-rYrKCR
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Printing_Press/