Global History: Time, Culture & Atrocity
Objectives
- D08.S1.10.01 Compare how different societies measured and recorded time and weigh how those systems shaped their sense of the past.
- D08.S1.10.02 Argue for a way to divide a global era into periods and defend where its turning points should fall.
- D08.S2.10.01 Evaluate the ethics of sharing, borrowing, and taking knowledge and culture across peoples, and who has been credited or harmed.
- D08.S2.10.02 Analyze how global trade and technology have spread and transformed cultural traditions in the modern world.
- D08.S3.10.01 Analyze how colonization reshaped populations, environments, and borders across the world, and its effects on Indigenous peoples.
- D08.S3.10.02 Analyze modern migration and displacement driven by conflict, economy, and climate, and weigh their causes and human consequences.
- D08.S4.10.01 Analyze a case of genocide or mass violence with care, examining its causes, the responses of survivors, and how it is remembered.
- D08.S4.10.02 Analyze how ordinary people have resisted oppression, sheltered others, and rebuilt after atrocity, and what remembrance and justice require.
Essential questions
- How have different societies measured and recorded time, and how do I argue for a periodization of a global era and defend its turning points?
- What are the ethics of sharing, borrowing, and taking knowledge and culture, and how have global trade and technology transformed cultural traditions?
- How did colonization reshape populations, environments, and borders, and how do I study atrocity and remembrance with care and accuracy?
Big ideas
- How societies measured and recorded time shaped their sense of the past, and periodization is an argument about where a global era's turning points fall.
- Knowledge and culture move across peoples with ethical questions of credit and harm, and global trade and technology transform cultural traditions.
- Colonization reshaped populations, environments, and borders, and studying atrocity and remembrance with care honors survivors and asks what justice requires.
Lessons
- 1 Many Ways to Count the Years 55 minutes
- 2 Time and the Sense of the Past 50 minutes
- 3 Periodizing a Global Era: Arguing for Turning Points 55 minutes
- 4 The Ethics of Sharing, Borrowing, and Taking 55 minutes
- 5 Knowledge Traditions Moving Across the World 55 minutes
- 6 Global Trade and Technology Transform Traditions 55 minutes
- 7 Colonization Reshaped the World 55 minutes
- 8 Indigenous Peoples: Effects and Endurance 55 minutes
- 9 Modern Migration and Displacement 55 minutes
- 10 Studying Atrocity with Care: A Case Study 55 minutes
- 11 Survivor Responses and Remembrance 55 minutes
- 12 Ordinary People: Resistance and Shelter 55 minutes
- 13 Rebuilding and What Justice Requires 55 minutes
- 14 The Many-Voiced Story: A Unit Synthesis 55 minutes
Assessment plan
A time-and-recording comparison across societies; a defended periodization argument for a global era; a knowledge-and-culture ethics analysis; a global-trade-and- tradition transformation analysis; a colonization-and-Indigenous-effects analysis; a modern-migration-and-displacement analysis; and a case study of atrocity and remembrance with a resistance-and-rebuilding reflection, gathered as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 9 — Global History: Time, Culture & Atrocity
Overview
This unit gives Grade 10 its full pass through the long, many-voiced human story, deepening Grade 9’s continuity and liberation into the hardest and most careful questions. Learners compare how different societies measured and recorded time and weigh how those systems shaped their sense of the past, and argue for a way to divide a global era into periods and defend where its turning points should fall. They evaluate the ethics of sharing, borrowing, and taking knowledge and culture across peoples, and who has been credited or harmed, and analyze how global trade and technology have spread and transformed cultural traditions in the modern world. They analyze how colonization reshaped populations, environments, and borders across the world and its effects on Indigenous peoples, and analyze modern migration and displacement driven by conflict, economy, and climate, weighing their causes and human consequences. They analyze a case of genocide or mass violence with care, examining its causes, the responses of survivors, and how it is remembered, and analyze how ordinary people have resisted oppression, sheltered others, and rebuilt after atrocity, and what remembrance and justice require. History is told from many perspectives, never as a single nation’s triumph, and the voices of those too often left out are centered with care and accuracy.
Essential questions
- How have different societies measured and recorded time, and how do I argue for a periodization of a global era and defend its turning points?
- What are the ethics of sharing, borrowing, and taking knowledge and culture, and how have global trade and technology transformed cultural traditions?
- How did colonization reshape populations, environments, and borders, and how do I study atrocity and remembrance with care and accuracy?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Many Ways to Count the Years | D08.S1.10.01 |
| 02 | Time and the Sense of the Past | D08.S1.10.01 |
| 03 | Periodizing a Global Era: Arguing for Turning Points | D08.S1.10.02 |
| 04 | The Ethics of Sharing, Borrowing, and Taking | D08.S2.10.01 |
| 05 | Knowledge Traditions Moving Across the World | D08.S2.10.01 |
| 06 | Global Trade and Technology Transform Traditions | D08.S2.10.02 |
| 07 | Colonization Reshaped the World | D08.S3.10.01 |
| 08 | Indigenous Peoples: Effects and Endurance | D08.S3.10.01 |
| 09 | Modern Migration and Displacement | D08.S3.10.02 |
| 10 | Studying Atrocity with Care: A Case Study | D08.S4.10.01 |
| 11 | Survivor Responses and Remembrance | D08.S4.10.01 |
| 12 | Ordinary People: Resistance and Shelter | D08.S4.10.02 |
| 13 | Rebuilding and What Justice Requires | D08.S4.10.02 |
| 14 | The Many-Voiced Story: A Unit Synthesis | D08.S1.10.02, D08.S2.10.02, D08.S3.10.02, D08.S4.10.02 |