Table of Contents
High School 1 - Concept 1: Semester 1
Unit 1: Early Civilizations and Migration (600 BCE) [SS]
- Lesson 1: Preshistory
- Lesson 2: Early Agriculture (2 Days)
- Lesson 3: Early Civilizations (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Mesopotamia (2 Days)
- Lesson 5: Egypt (2 Days)
- Lesson 6: Trade and Empire Building
- Lesson 7: New Beliefs and Technologies
- Lesson 8: Historical Essay (2 Days)
- Final Project: Flow Chart (2 Days)
Unit 1: Lord of the Flies [LA]
- Lesson 1: The Call
- Lesson 2: Life on the Island
- Lesson 3: Paths in the Jungle
- Lesson 4: Images from Paradise
- Lesson 5: Not Hunting, But Hunted
- Lesson 6: Symbolism, Part 1
- Lesson 7: Bowed and Bowed Again
- Lesson 8: Defects of Human Nature
- Lesson 9: Symbolism, Part 2
- Lesson 10: Which Is Better?
- Lesson 11: The Film
- Final Project: Now You Have the Conch (3 Days)
Unit 2: World Religions (600 BCE - 600 CE) [SS]
- Lesson 1: Rise of Religions (2 Days)
- Lesson 2: Shamanism, Animism, Ancestor Veneration
- Lesson 3: Hinduism
- Lesson 4: Buddhism
- Lesson 5: Daoism and Confucianism
- Lesson 6: Judaism
- Lesson 7: Christianity
- Lesson 8: Islam
- Final Project: Dimensions of World Religions (2 Days)
Unit 2: Short Stories [LA]
- Lesson 1: The Gift of the Magi (2 Days)
- Lesson 2: The Necklace
- Lesson 3: Literary Response (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Characterization
- Lesson 5: Edgar Allan Poe (2 Days)
- Lesson 6: The Lottery
- Lesson 7: Everyday Use (2 Days)
- Lesson 8: Harrison Bergeron (2 Days)
- Lesson 9: Dialogue
- Final Project: Writing a Short Story (4 Days)
Unit 3: Rise of the Empires (600 BCE - 600 CE) [SS]
- Lesson 1: Persian Empire
- Lesson 2: Greek Empire
- Lesson 3: Qin and Han Empires
- Lesson 4: Roman Empire
- Lesson 5: Mauryan and Gupta Empires
- Lesson 6: Trade Routes and Economics
- Lesson 7: Imperial Administration
- Lesson 8: Social Structure
- Lesson 9: Fall of Empires
- Lesson 10: Artistic Expression
- Final Project: Rise and Decline of an Empire
Unit 3: Grammar, Part I [LA]
- Lesson 1: Parts of Speech (2 Days)
- Lesson 2: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Lesson 3: Pronoun Problems
- Lesson 4: Commas (2 Days)
- Lesson 5: Review
- Lesson 6: Colons and Semicolons
- Lesson 7: Spelling
- Final Project: Wrapping Up
Unit 4: Cultural Exchanges [SS]
Unit 4: Poetry [LA]
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Poetry
- Lesson 2: Sound and Rhythm (2 Days)
- Lesson 3: Figurative Language
- Lesson 4: Voice and Tone
- Lesson 5: What Does It Mean?
- Lesson 6: Fooling with Words
- Lesson 7: Analyzing Poetry
- Lesson 8: Types of Poems (2 Days)
- Lesson 9: The Crossover
- Lesson 10: Poems and Poets (3 Days)
- Lesson 11: Reciting Poetry
- Final Project: Poetry (3 Days)
Unit 5: Nonfiction [LA]
- Lesson 1: Types of Nonfiction
- Lesson 2: Pakistan
- Lesson 3: The Taliban
- Lesson 4: Dear Diary
- Lesson 5: Displacement
- Lesson 6: A Day Like Any Other
- Lesson 7: Life in England
- Lesson 8: Civil Rights (3 Days)
- Lesson 9: Civil Disobedience
- Lesson 10: Learning from the Past (2 Days)
- Lesson 11: A Boy's Story
- Lesson 12: Running from War (2 Days)
- Lesson 13: Child Soldier (2 Days)
- Lesson 14: Rehabilitation (2 Days)
- Lesson 15: A New Life (2 Days)
- Final Project: Expository Essay (4 Days)
- Semester Exam: Semester Exam (5 Days)