Global History: Transformation, Knowledge & Justice

Objectives

• D08.S1.11.01 Analyze one long-term transformation, such as industrialization or the recent acceleration of human impact, and weigh what was gained and lost for different peoples and the environment.
• D08.S1.11.02 Evaluate how the choice of what counts as significant change shapes historical accounts, using contrasting examples.
• D08.S2.11.01 Evaluate the relationship between dominant and marginalized knowledge traditions and argue for how marginalized voices can be centered.
• D08.S2.11.02 Analyze how peoples have maintained and revitalized their languages, traditions, and knowledge in the face of pressure to assimilate.
• D08.S3.11.01 Analyze the relationship between human settlement, resource use, and environmental change, such as deforestation or water scarcity, across regions.
• D08.S3.11.02 Evaluate how climate change is reshaping where and how people can live, and weigh responses rooted in care and justice.
• D08.S4.11.01 Compare social movements for civil rights, labor, and liberation across different countries and analyze their strategies and effects.
• D08.S4.11.02 Analyze the relationship between power, inequality, and technology in past and present struggles, and who gained and who was left out.

Essential questions

• How do I analyze a long-term transformation and weigh what was gained and lost for different peoples and the environment, and how does what counts as significant change shape history?
• How do dominant and marginalized knowledge traditions relate, and how have peoples maintained and revitalized their languages and knowledge under pressure to assimilate?
• How do settlement, resource use, and climate change reshape where people can live, and how do social movements and technology shift power and inequality?

Big ideas

• Long-term transformations bring gains and losses unevenly across peoples and the environment, and the choice of what counts as significant change shapes the account.
• Dominant and marginalized knowledge traditions interact, and peoples have maintained and revitalized languages, traditions, and knowledge against pressure to assimilate.
• Settlement, resource use, and climate change reshape lives, while social movements and technology reorder power and inequality in past and present.

Lessons

1. 1 What Counts as Significant Change? 55 minutes
2. 2 Industrialization: Weighing Gains and Losses 55 minutes
3. 3 The Great Acceleration: Human Impact on the Earth 55 minutes
4. 4 Telling the Story: Contrasting Accounts of Significance 55 minutes
5. 5 Dominant and Marginalized Knowledge Traditions 55 minutes
6. 6 Centering Marginalized Voices 55 minutes
7. 7 Language Under Pressure: Loss and Survival 55 minutes
8. 8 Bringing Languages Home: Revitalization 55 minutes
9. 9 Settlement, Resources, and Environmental Change 55 minutes
10. 10 Forests and Water Across Regions 55 minutes
11. 11 A Changing Climate Reshapes Where We Live 55 minutes
12. 12 Responding with Care and Justice 55 minutes
13. 13 Movements for Civil Rights, Labor, and Liberation 55 minutes
14. 14 Strategies and Effects: Comparing Movements 55 minutes
15. 15 Power, Inequality, and Technology 55 minutes

Assessment plan

A long-term transformation analysis weighing gains and losses; a significance-choice evaluation using contrasting examples; an argument on dominant and marginalized knowledge traditions for centering marginalized voices; a language-and-tradition revitalization analysis; a settlement-resource-and- environment analysis; a climate-migration evaluation weighing care-and-justice responses; a cross-country social-movements comparison; and a power-inequality-and-technology analysis, gathered as portfolio artifacts.