Getting+Started

=Unit 1: Beginning=

Key Words

 * schism:** a division or separation

Lesson 1: Getting Started Part 1
History is the study of the human past--the story of change over time. It's a story based on evidence. our physical world is the setting that helps shape the story, and real people are it's heroes. Historians ask questions about all of these elements. Why did Europeans of the Middle Ages build cathedrals? How did the shoguns of japan maintain their power? What inspired explorers to set sail across the seas?

Lesson Objectives

 * Define //history// and identify reasons for studying history
 * Review basic geography skills
 * Review the late Middle Ages in Europe and Asia

Lesson Notes
Page 15 in the textbook should begin as follows: A wise novelist once wrote, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” The quotation is from the Prologue to The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley.

In the Prologue section of the textbook, page 22, the first sentence reads "The Mongols began pushing east." The sentence should read "The Mongols began pushing west."

The first sentence of the second paragraph reads "The unstoppable Mongols then swept into Muslim lands to the west." The sentence should read "The unstoppable Mongols then swept into Muslim lands to the south."


 * 1) Write a short paragraph defining history and why we study it
 * 2) Review the text //The Human Odyssey: Our Modern World, 1400 to 1914//
 * 3) Read the Introduction, pages 15-23, and complete The Reading Guide.

Lesson 2: Getting Started Part 2

 * 1) Complete the Map Skills worksheet

=****Order All Books for Unit 2****=