History & Geography in Grade 8 | 4ème
History & Geography Class in Grade 8 Meets Two Times / Week (Instruction in French)
Content (History):
- 18th Century European powers and their empires : colonization, slave trade, enlightenment.
- French Revolution related to the European and American context
- 19th Century in Europe : Industrial Age, Colonial empires and colonial societies, the right to vote, the 3rd Republic in France, Women in the 19th century, the Rise of nations and nationalism (1815-1914)
Content (Geography):
- Global organization of the world : international trade, seas and oceans in the globalization, cities and globalization, Human movement (migrations, tourism)
- Inequalities toward globalization : United States in the globalization, Africa and globalization
Objectives:
- Understand the American Narrative
- Develop critical thinking
- Research/writing skills
- How ideas, media, and communication influence society
- Develop the sense of the inherent struggle in realizing the ideal of a nation
- Master chronology and understanding of culture
- Tools of historical and geographical analysis
- Acquire a common historical and geographical culture to provide knowledge of the world around us
- Creativity
Assessment:
- Individual projects
- Group and research projects
- Oral presentations
- Class participation
- Open problems and Enquiry-based learning
- Unit essays
- Formative and summative criteria-based assessment
Resources:
- La Classe d'Histoire: Website with resources for all grades in History and Geography (historic and geographic documentation, videos, vocabulary, activities, exercises, online quiz and tests). The History and Geography class is a flipped classroom.
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