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World History Pacing Guide
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Two-week summary of major instructional content and skills • 36 instructional weeks
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Week(s)Unit / TextMajor ContentMajor Skills and Assessments
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Weeks 1–2Unit 1: Renaissance & ReformationIntro - Time / space (2 days); Renaissance direct instruction; Titian and Donatello document analysis; Q1/Geo 1 and Q2/Geo 2; Renaissance artist project; Renaissance art; Cellini & Utopia.Analyze historical time/location, Renaissance causes, writers and artists, and primary documents; compare artistic and written perspectives; research and compare Renaissance artists; assess Renaissance concepts and Italy/Central Europe geography.
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Weeks 3–4Unit 1: Renaissance & ReformationRenn Project A1.2–A1.3; SS 1-2: DaVinci; DI* - Ren/Ref writers; Ren & Writting exe; Q3/Geo 3; SS 1-3: St. Bart's Massacre; DI* - Reformation; Ren & Ref review and assessment.Research and compare Renaissance artists; analyze and synthesize historical documents; compare Renaissance/Reformation writers and Gutenberg/Luther; analyze Luther’s motivations and effects; assess Renaissance/Reformation writers, vocabulary and concepts.
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Weeks 5–6Unit 2: ExplorationExploration project B1–B3; DI* - Exploration notes; Columbus / Las Casas document; Q4/Geo 4; SS 1-5: Conquest of Mexico; Europe’s effect on Africa; Q5/Geo 5; SS 1-6: Dom Franciso voyages.Analyze motivations and effects of European exploration/colonization in Africa, the Americas and South Asia; compare primary accounts; assess key explorers and coastal geography; plan navigation, construct a 17th-century vessel model, and synthesize document findings.
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Weeks 7–8Unit 2: ExplorationEurope’s effect on Asia; SE Asia / Europe contact; Q6/Geo 6; Exploration project B4–B5; Columbian Exchange documentary; 16th/17th-century global connections; contact exercise; Nav Ex '25 activity.Analyze European trade/colonization and the Columbian Exchange across Asia, Africa and the Americas; assess long-term trade impacts and East Asian geography; refine vessel/navigation plans and trade calculations; apply Renaissance trade and navigation techniques.
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Weeks 9–10Unit 3: Crisis & AbsolutismBourbon France; Absolutist Monarch project days 1–2; Q1/Geo 1; Central/Eastern European monarchs; Austria & Russia comparison; Q2/Geo 2; Court of Louis XIV Socratic Session; English 17th-century monarchy; English Monarchy pair work.Compare French, Prussian, Austrian, Russian and English monarchies and uses of absolute power; research an absolutist monarch for public display; analyze historical documents; assess Stuart rise/fall and relevant European geography.
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Weeks 11–12Unit 3: Crisis & Absolutism
Unit 4: Muslim Empires		Stuart Q2/Geo 2; Absolutist Monarch project days 3–5; Edict on Castles Socratic Session; religious extremism; 16th/17th-century arts; Ottoman Empire; Visit to Constantinople; Q3/Geo 3.Organize, design and construct the absolutist-monarch display; analyze documents and Catholic/Protestant political violence; connect period art and music; describe Ottoman growth/management; analyze a Constantinople source using PERSIA and assess Eastern Mediterranean geography.
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Weeks 13–14Unit 4: Muslim EmpiresThe Sultana Socratic Session; Safavid Persia; Persian poetry; Absolutist Monarch project final; Safavid art curation; Mughal Empire; Q4/Geo 4; Chinese Snowflake; Mughal Poem exercise.Describe Safavid and Mughal growth/management; analyze and discuss historical documents; compare Persian poems and synthesize poetry with artistic motifs; complete the absolutist-monarch model; assess South Asian geography; design basic Chinese-vocabulary and artistic representations.
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Weeks 15–16Unit 4: Muslim Empires
Unit 5: East Asian Empires		Persian poetry part 3; Snack, geography and trade; Ming Dynasty; Europe/East Asia interactions; Q5/Geo 5; Chinese Snowflake day 2; Ming Socratic Session; Qing Dynasty; Qianlong edicts; Q6/Geo 6.Synthesize Persian poetry with Safavid motifs; analyze regional/economic connections in food; describe Ming and Qing growth/management; analyze primary sources using PERSIA; assess East Asian geography; develop the Chinese-vocabulary model and discuss Ming evidence.
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Weeks 17–18Unit 5: East Asian Empires
Unit 6: Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment		Chinese Snowflake final; Qing Socratic Session; Tokugawa Japan; Q7/Geo 7; Haiku; Samurai documents; Scientific Revolution; Church and scientific research; Q1/Geo 1; Enlightenment Campaign project.Complete a Chinese-vocabulary model; analyze and compare Qing/Tokugawa documents; explain Tokugawa governance and assess Korean geography; synthesize politics/class in haiku; explain Scientific Revolution conditions/effects; analyze Galileo-era tensions; research/design an Enlightenment campaign poster.
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Weeks 19–20Unit 6: Scientific Revolution & EnlightenmentJoseph Priestley Socratic Session; The Enlightenment; Q2/Geo 2; Enlightenment Campaign days 2–3; Ideal of Joseph II; Enlightened Absolutism; Voltaire!; Q3/Geo 3; Frederick II Socratic Session.Analyze and discuss primary documents; describe Enlightenment effects on monarchy and individual potential and the impact of enlightened rulers; assess Northern/Eastern European geography; research and develop a campaign poster, legend and poem; analyze Voltaire’s contributions.
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Weeks 21–22Unit 6: Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
Unit 7: French Revolution & Napoleon		Arts of the Enlightenment; Mozart film analysis; Q4/Geo 4; French Revolution regions project days 1–2; SS 3-4: The 3rd Estate; French Revolution origins and escalation; J-L David documentary; Q5/Geo 5; Fall of the Bastille.Analyze the arts’ impact on 18th-century politics/religion and Mozart through PERSIA; assess Western European geography; research/design a précis on a French town; analyze historical documents and propaganda; explain factors leading to and escalating the French Revolution and assess France geography.
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Weeks 23–24Unit 7: French Revolution & NapoleonNapoleon documentary parts 1–2; Q6/Geo 6 and Q7/Geo 7; Nationalism project; Napoleon Addresses his troops; DI* - Napoleon; Imperial Catechism; Congress of Vienna.Analyze how Napoleon used political chaos and the conditions/consequences of his rule; assess French Revolution/Napoleonic change and France geography; analyze nationalism’s 19th-century effects; synthesize historical documents; compare postwar conservative aims at the Congress of Vienna.
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Weeks 25–26Unit 7: French Revolution & Napoleon
Unit 8: Industrialism & Nationalism		Waterloo documentary; Q8/Geo 8; NATO exercise; German/French military anthems; Industrial Revolution; scavenger hunt; industrial geography and art; Industrial Revolution review; nationalist revolutions.Assess Waterloo strategy, conservative aspirations and France geography; compare NATO with the Congress of Vienna and French/German nationalist viewpoints; analyze Industrial Revolution conditions, resources, technology, geography, social repercussions and artistic effects; categorize early-19th-century revolutions.
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Weeks 27–28Unit 8: Industrialism & Nationalism
Unit 9: Height of Imperialism		Nationalist DBQs; Q1/Geo 1; Imperialism Project days 1–2; Steamship accident; 19th-century artistic movements; Romanticism exercise; Q2/Geo 2; Charge of the Light Brigade; Imperialism in Africa.Analyze the revolutions of 1848 and German unification; assess revolution outcomes and European geography; research/design an imperialism model; compare steamship evidence; distinguish Romanticism and Realism and their political effects; analyze a Romantic poem; compare motives for European imperialism in Africa.
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Weeks 29–30Unit 9: Height of ImperialismBelgian DBQ; Q3/Geo 3; Imperialism Project final; SS 4-3: A Hanging; Imperialism in India; India DBQ and geography quiz; TenTalks project day 1; Kipling poems; Imperialist Japan.Evaluate primary sources and imperialism’s impacts/locations; complete and integrate the imperialism model; analyze Realism and imperialism in A Hanging; examine British goals and long-term effects in India; begin 20th-century topic research; compare Kipling poems; investigate factors behind Imperial Japan.
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Weeks 31–32Unit 9: Height of Imperialism
Unit 10: The World in Revolution & War		Korea/Japan DBQ; Q4/Geo 4; TenTalks project day 2; Attack on Port Arthur; War & Revolution; WWI DBQ; Q5/Geo 5; TenTalks day 3; Private Fraser; WWI and Russian Revolution/Civil War.Compare documents on Japanese occupation of Korea and assess Japanese imperialism/geography; organize TenTalks content and visuals; analyze Port Arthur; investigate causes of WWI and U.S. entry; assess prewar conditions/Belgium geography; analyze a soldier’s journal; connect WWI prosecution with the Russian Revolution.
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Weeks 33–34Unit 10: The World in Revolution & WarQ6/Geo 6; TenTalks project day 4; Anti-Fascist PSA; The Great Dictator film exercises 1–4; TenTalks Presentations 1–3.Assess PERSIA trends in WWI/Russian Revolution and Ukraine geography; plan, record, summarize and present TenTalks findings; analyze anti-Fascist propaganda; analyze The Great Dictator for political, economic, religious, scientific, intellectual and artistic commentary on fascism.
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Weeks 35–36Unit 10: The World in Revolution & WarFINALS REVIEW; FINALS 1 & 2; FINALS 3 & 4.Finals review and final assessments, as listed in the source lesson plan.
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