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Table of ContentsIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Standards Correlation Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Early Civilizations Lessons
Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Ancient Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ancient Greece and Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ancient China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Mississippian Mound Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
World History Lessons
West African Kingdoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Vikings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of Earth . . . . . . . 37
The Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Revolutions: A Chain Reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Jewish Oppression in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Great Irish Famine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
The Panama Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
American History Lessons
The Lost Colony of Roanoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Valley Forge Encampment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Great Westward Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
The War of 1898 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Immigration and Sweatshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
America Enters World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Japanese-American Internment Camps . . . . . . 89
Iranian Hostage Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Early Civilizations Graphic Organizers
Write All About It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Key Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Poster Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
K-W-L Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
World History Graphic Organizers
Square Venn Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Balancing Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Follow in the Footsteps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hot Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Hierarchy Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Event-and-Result Funnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Why? Pie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Steer Me in the Right Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Active-Reading Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
American History Graphic Organizers
Zigzag Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Crosshatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Right Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Waterfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Concept Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Life Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Foot Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Sum-It-Up Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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Early C
ivilization
Sample Organizer Poster Planner
Title and Your Name
Ancient Greece by Jamie Rodriguez
Picture and Fact
Aristotle lived in Athens from 384–233 BCE. His ideas formed the
foundation of scientific methods.
Picture and Fact
Greek general Alexander the Great conquered Persia, Egypt, and India and spread Greek knowledge.
Central Image/Fact of Greatest Importance
the birthplace of Western civilization
Picture and Fact
Greeks worshipped gods and goddesses. Zeus was the
chief god of the Greeks.
Picture and Fact
Greeks wrote plays and performed them in
outdoor amphitheaters.
The Olympic
games first began in Greece in 776 BCE. Only men could compete—and they
were nude!
Optional Fact or Picture
Sparta, a Greek
city-state, claimed
ownership of all newborn males.
Startling or Interesting Fact
Athens, a Greek
city-state, had the world’s first democracy in 508 BCE.
Startling or Interesting Fact
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Supplemental Reading Hierarchy Array
Concord Hymn
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard ’round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
As does the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft steam,We set today a votive stone;That memory may their deed redeem,When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dareTo die, and leave their children free,Bid Time and Nature gently spareThe Shaft we raise to them and thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this poem about the first battle of the American Revolution . It occurred the morning after Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride . Seventy farmers took a stand against the redcoats in Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775 . They lost the battle, and the British marched on to Concord . The men in Concord managed to chase the British soldiers back to Boston through guerilla warfare .
Why was this “the shot heard ’round the world”? At that time most European nations had wealthy royal rulers and a large population of people who could barely survive . France had a long history of conflict with Great Britain, so its king sent troops to help America win its “freedom from tyranny .” What King Louis XVI failed to see was that he himself was such a tyrant . When the American colonists beat the best army in the world, the French peasants decided to overthrow their monarch . The French Revolution began in 1789 . King Louis, his queen, and many wealthy nobles were beheaded .
The American victory also had an effect on the people of Central and South America . There, Spanish and Portguese rulers had turned the native peoples into slaves . In nation after nation, people thought, “Why should we endure foreign rule? Since the Americans won against the world’s strongest military, we will revolt and win our freedom, too .” Over time, the oppressed people in these countries fought and successfully ousted their European rulers . By 1830 most of the nations of Central and South America were free .
Wo
rld
His
tory
British soldiers march into Concord.
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Sample Organizer Crosshatch
The British ships destroyed
Fort Mifflin by D
ec. 24, 1777.
Fort M
ifflin
attac
ked th
e
supply
ships
in O
ct. 17
77.
British supply ships had to
sail up the Delaware River.
The Br
itish
decide
d to
stay
there
for th
e win
ter.
Start
ing
Event
The Am
erican
Rev
olutio
n
began
in A
pril
1775
.
which led to
which
led
to
which led to
which
led
to
General George Washington stationed
the Continental Army nearby.
Briti
sh tro
ops to
ok ov
er Ph
iladel
phia
on S
ept. 2
7, 17
77.
The British wanted to end
the colonists’ rebellion.
which led to
which
led
to
which led to
Am
erican Histo
ry
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Sample Organizer Concept MapA
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