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Unit PlannerWorld History and Geography

Wayne RESA – SS / Grade 11 / Social Studies / World History and Geography / Week 37
RESA, MAISA MC3 Units
Unit Abstract

The contemporary world is more interconnected than at any time in history as goods, ideas, and culture travel easily and at times instantaneously – a process called globalization. The growth and production of goods is unprecedented, as is the growth of the population and wealth of the world. However, production, population, and wealth are not equally distributed. The results of these inequalities present challenges including global terrorism, economic inequality, environmental issues, and nationalistic conflicts. This unit focuses on these contemporary trends, events and forces, and their historical context. Historians hold competing interpretations of the past fifty years. Some historians refer to the past half century as a “re-globalization” of the world after the “de-globalization” caused by war and economic crisis in the first half of the 20th century. In this view, the future will find an increase in importance of truly international corporations, cosmopolitanism, and the reconstruction of global economic and political balance. The ultimate result is that the East will play an increasingly significant role in the world creating a more polycentric web of interactions. On the other hand, an alternative interpretation holds that the world remains split along “civilizational” lines which have generated a collision between Western, Eastern, and Islamic civilizations. As historians, economists, political scientists, and geographers debate these merits of these arguments, a number of regional, inter regional, and global issues continue to dominate contemporary concerns including ethnic cleansing/genocide, environmental issues, resource use and distribution, warfare, and increasing global markets.

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Stage One - Desired Results

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Standards
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Compelling Question

How are contemporary global issues reflective of both historic conflict between civilizations and increased globalization?

Supporting Questions
  1. How do global issues related to population and resource use reflect changes over the past fifty years?
  2. How are contemporary global issues reflective of both historic conflict between civilizations and increased globalization? 
  3. What makes a matter a global issue?
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Content (Key Concepts)

ethnic cleansing/genocide

fossil fuels

global warming

globalization

migration

nationalism

natural resource

terrorism

 

Skills (Intellectual Processes)
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Stage Two - Assessment Evidence

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Unit Assessment Tasks
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Stage Three - Learning Plan

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Lesson Plan Sequence
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Resources

Student Resource

Central Intelligence Agency: The World Factbook. 6 October 2015 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

 

Global Interdependence. London School of Economics and Political Science. 11 April 2008

 

Nationmaster.com. 6 October 2015

http://www.nationmaster.com

 

What is Globalization? Globalization101.org. The Levin Institute. State University of New York. 11 April 2008

 

Teacher Resource

Genocide in the 20th Century. The History Place. 6 October 2015 http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/

 

The Learning Page: Links to Middle East and North Africa. The Library of Congress. 6 October 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/inres/area/mideast.html

 

Model UN. United Nations Association of the United States of America. 11 April 2008

 

More Resources for Classroom Debate. Education World. 6 October 2015 http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson304b.shtml

 

National Geography Standard 16. Xpeditions. National Geographic. 6 October 2015 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/16/index.html

 

Oakland Schools Teaching Research Writing Website: Skills Progression & Lessons http://www.osteachingresearchwriting.org/

 

PBS Teachers: Studying Genocide Resources.PBS. 6 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/teachers/thismonth/genocide/index3.html

 

Rwanda Commemoration Project: Genocide in Our Time. Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. 6 October 2015 http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center/rwanda/

 

Teaching Guide for “New World Order?” Essays. Social Science Research Council. 6 October 2015 http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_world_order.htm Overview and instructional resources for many of the issues in this unit.

 

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 6 October 2015 http://unfccc.int/2860.php

 

Resources for Further Professional Knowledge

Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad Vs. McWorld. New York: Times Books, 1995.

 

Barber, Benjamin. “Jihad vs McWorld.” Atlantic Monthly. March 1992. 6 October 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199203/barber

 

Frank, Andre Gunder. Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998.

 

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

 

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).

 

Huntington, Samuel P. “If Not Clash of Civilizations, What? Samuel Huntington Responds to his Critics.” Foreign Affairs, November/December 1993. 6 October 2015 http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19931201faresponse5213/samuel-p-huntington/if-not-civilizations-what-samuel-huntington-responds-to-his-critics.html

 

Levene, Mark. “Why is the twentieth century the century of genocide?” Journal of World History, 2000, 11(2), 305-336.

 

McNeill, John Robert and William Hardy McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

 

Rashid, Salim and Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? Asian Responses, ed. Salim (Karachi New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

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Expectations/Standards
MI: Social Studies (2007)
High School
World History & Geography
CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ISSUES
Evaluate the events, trends and forces that are increasing global interdependence and expanding global networks and evaluate the events, trends and forces that are attempting to maintain or expand autonomy of regional or local networks.
CG1 Population
Explain the causes and consequences of population changes over the past 50 years by analyzing the
• population change (including birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, growth rate, doubling time, aging population, changes in science and technology)
• distributions of population (including relative changes in urban-rural population, gender, age, patterns of migrations, and population density)
• relationship of the population changes to global interactions, and their impact on three regions of the world
CG2 Resources
Explain the changes over the past 50 years in the use, distribution, and importance of natural resources (including land, water, energy, food, renewable, non-renewable, and flow resources) on human life, settlement, and interactions by describing and evaluating
• change in spatial distribution and use of natural resources
• the differences in ways societies have been using and distributing natural resources
• social, political, economic, and environmental consequences of the development, distribution, and use of natural resources
• major changes in networks for the production, distribution, and consumption of natural resources including growth of multinational corporations, and governmental and non-governmental organizations (e.g., OPEC, NAFTA, EU, NATO, World Trade Organization, Red Cross, Red Crescent)
• the impact of humans on the global environment
CG3 Patterns of Global Interactions
Define the process of globalization and evaluate the merit of this concept to describe the contemporary world by analyzing
• economic interdependence of the world’s countries and world trade patterns
• the exchanges of scientific, technological, and medical innovations
• cultural diffusion and the different ways cultures/societies respond to “new” cultural ideas and patterns
• comparative economic advantages and disadvantages of regions, regarding cost of labor, natural resources, location, and tradition
• distribution of wealth and resources and efforts to narrow the inequitable distribution of resources
CG4 Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
Analyze the causes and challenges of continuing and new conflicts by describing
• tensions resulting from ethnic, territorial, religious, and/or nationalist differences (e.g., Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, al Qaeda, Shining Path)
• causes of and responses to ethnic cleansing/genocide/mass extermination (e.g., Darfur, Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia)
• local and global attempts at peacekeeping, security, democratization, and administering international justice and human rights
• the type of warfare used in these conflicts, including terrorism, private militias, and new technologies
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