Our Schedule
We give equal time to each of the five chronological periods. Therefore, we take 150 days and minus 15 days for studying for the exam starting in April, getting 140 days, and dividing by 5, and getting 28 days for each. Weeks marked with an * are those with less than five school days in them. The lessons for each week are derived from the place the class is in reading the textbook. The class merges, therefore with the text to create something cohesive. For example, a class may begin with a 5 min written response to the prompt: "To what extent do you agree with this statement..." at which the student should encapsulate what they learned. Note: Notes from the reading in the SPRITE format are a different animal than notes taken in class. Classtime notes are written in the usual way. A great way to study is to take class notes home and type them.
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Week 1* |
Aug. 24 - Aug. 28 |
Prehistory, Neolithic Era, Birth of Civilizaton, Mesopotamia |
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Week 2 |
Aug. 31 - Sept. 4 |
Indo-European and Bantu Migrations, Ancient Egypt & Africa, Phoenicians |
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Week 3* |
Sept. 8 - Sept. 11 |
Achaemenid Persia, Seleucid Persia, Shang China |
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Week 4 |
Sept. 14 - Sept. 18 |
Zhou China, Confucius, Daoism, Legalism, Ancient India, Hinduism |
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Week 5 |
Sept. 21 - Sept. 25 |
Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, The Silk Road |
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Week 6 |
Sept. 28 - Oct 2 |
Early Greece, Classical Greece, Republican Rome, Roman Empire, Byzantium |
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Week 7 |
Oct. 5 - Oct. 9 |
Early Russia, Islam, Sui China, Tang China, Song China, Feudal Japan, Islam in India |
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Week 8* |
Oct. 12 - Oct. 15 |
Medieval Europe, Carolingians, Christendom, Turks |
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Week 9 |
Oct. 19 - Oct. 23 |
Mongol Khans, Mongol decline, African kingdoms, Ibn Battuta |
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Week 10 |
Oct. 26 - Oct. 30 |
High Middle Ages, Crusades |
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Week 11 |
Nov. 2 - Nov 6 |
Olmecs, Maya, Andeans, Toltecs, Mexica (Aztecs), Inca, Early Oceania |
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Week 12* |
Nov. 9 - Nov. 13 |
Long Distance Travel and Trade, The Plague, Renaissance |
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Week 13 |
Nov. 16 - Nov. 20 |
Age of Exploration, Columbian Exchange, Reformation |
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Week 14* |
Nov. 23 - Nov. 24 |
Westphalian Order, Capitalism, Science Revolution |
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Week 15 |
Nov. 30 - Dec. 4 |
Spain in Central America, Britain in North America |
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Week 16 |
Dec. 7- Dec. 11 |
Polynesia, African States, Slavery, Ming China, Qing China |
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Week 17 |
Dec. 14 - Dec. 18 |
Tokugawa Shogunate (Japan), Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia, Mughal India* |
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Week 18* |
Dec. 21 - Dec. 22 |
Finals Week, Christamas Break |
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Week 19 |
Jan. 11 - Jan. 15 |
Enlightenment, American Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleon |
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Week 20* |
Jan. 19 - Jan. 22 |
Haitian Slave Revolution, Industrial Revolution |
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Week 21 |
Jan. 25 - Jan. 29 |
Urbanization, Migration, Marxism, Manifest Destiny |
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Week 22 |
Feb. 1 - Feb. 5 |
Economic America, Ottoman decline, Russian Empire decline |
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Week 23 |
Feb. 8 - Feb. 12 |
FCAT Writes, Opium War, Meiji Japan |
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Week 24 |
Feb. 15 - Feb. 19 |
New Imperialism, British India, Scramble for Africa, Imperial Japan* |
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Week 25 |
Feb. 22 - Feb. 26 |
Road to World War I, WWI, Russian Revolution |
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Week 26 |
Mar. 1 - Mar. 5 |
Versailles, Pessimism, Depression, Communist Alternative, Fascist Alternative |
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Week 27 |
Mar. 8 - Mar. 12 |
FCAT Exam |
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Week 28 |
Mar. 15 - Mar. 19 |
Interwar India, Africa, Latin America, Japan in China, German Aggression |
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Week 29 |
Mar. 22 - Mar. 26 |
World War II, Holocaust, Bi-Polar World |
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Week 30 |
Mar. 29 - Apr. 2 |
The Cold War, 1948-1991 |
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Week 31 |
Apr. 12 - Apr. 16 |
End of Empire: Postcolonial Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America |
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Week 32 |
Apr. 19 - Apr. 23 |
Unification of Europe, Dissappearing Borders, Population, Migration, Terrorism* |
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Week 33 |
Apr. 26 - Apr. 30 |
Exam Review |
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Week 34 |
May 3 - May 7 |
Exam Review |
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Week 35 |
May 10 - May 14 |
Exam Review - AP Exam (Thursday) |
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Week 36 |
May 17 - May 21 |
One Day |
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Week 37 |
May 24 - May 28 |
One Day |
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Week 38 |
May 31 - June 4 |
The Future |
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Week 39 |
June 7 - June 11 |
Finals Week |
* - denotes the end of one of the major chronological units
