Global History: Change, Knowledge & the Unfinished Story

Objectives

• D08.S1.12.01 Weigh competing accounts of change and continuity across global history and form a reasoned synthesis of the evidence.
• D08.S1.12.02 Reflect on their own place in the long, unfinished human story, connecting the past to the present and to possible futures.
• D08.S2.12.01 Weigh multiple knowledge traditions side by side and articulate a respectful, non-dogmatic relationship among them.
• D08.S2.12.02 Reflect on how honoring many knowledge traditions contributes to a more just and flourishing shared human story.
• D08.S3.12.01 Trace global movements of peoples and power across deep time and synthesize how migration has shaped the human story.
• D08.S3.12.02 Reflect on their own place in the ongoing movement of people and ideas, and their responsibility to a shared and changing Earth.
• D08.S4.12.01 Weigh competing accounts of power and resistance in a contested historical event and form a reasoned judgment.
• D08.S4.12.02 Reflect on their own role and responsibility in the ongoing, unfinished struggle for freedom and dignity for all people.

Essential questions

• How do I weigh competing accounts of change and continuity and form a reasoned synthesis, and where is my own place in the long, unfinished human story?
• How do I weigh multiple knowledge traditions side by side and honor them without dogma, and trace global movements of peoples and power across deep time?
• How do I weigh competing accounts of power and resistance, and reflect on my own responsibility in the unfinished struggle for freedom and dignity?

Big ideas

• Competing accounts of change and continuity can be weighed into a reasoned synthesis, and each of us has a place in the long, unfinished human story, connected to possible futures.
• Multiple knowledge traditions can be weighed side by side in a respectful, non-dogmatic relationship, and honoring them contributes to a more just and flourishing shared story.
• Migration has shaped the human story across deep time, and weighing accounts of power and resistance — and reflecting on my own responsibility — places me in the unfinished struggle for freedom and dignity.

Lessons

1. 1 Weighing Accounts of Change and Continuity 55 minutes
2. 2 Forming a Reasoned Synthesis 55 minutes
3. 3 My Place in the Long Human Story 55 minutes
4. 4 Past, Present, and Possible Futures 55 minutes
5. 5 Multiple Knowledge Traditions, Side by Side 55 minutes
6. 6 A Respectful, Non-Dogmatic Relationship 55 minutes
7. 7 Honoring Many Traditions 55 minutes
8. 8 A More Just, Flourishing Shared Story 55 minutes
9. 9 Movements of Peoples and Power Across Deep Time 55 minutes
10. 10 How Migration Shaped the Human Story 55 minutes
11. 11 My Place in the Movement of People and Ideas 55 minutes
12. 12 Responsibility to a Shared, Changing Earth 55 minutes
13. 13 Weighing Accounts of Power and Resistance 55 minutes
14. 14 The Unfinished Struggle for Freedom and Dignity 55 minutes

Assessment plan

A change-and-continuity synthesis weighing competing accounts; a place-in-the-human- story reflection connecting past, present, and possible futures; a knowledge- traditions weighing; a many-traditions flourishing reflection; a deep-time migration synthesis; a place-in-movement responsibility reflection; a power-and-resistance judgment; and a freedom-and-dignity responsibility reflection, gathered as capstone portfolio artifacts.