American City
College
Quarter Plan
Academic Year: 2017-2018
Quarter: 1
(September 12th – October 19th)
Grade: 9
Subject: Social
Studies
Teacher: Zahra
Ismael
Head of Department: Mrs.
Dalia El Tayeb
® Units and Chapters:
Unit Two: Southern and Central Asia
1.
Chapter Six: Judaism
and Christianity
2.
Chapter Seven: History of the Islamic World
Unit Three: Africa
3.
Chapter Eleven: History of Ancient Egypt
4.
Chapter Twelve: History of Ancient Kush
5.
Chapter Thirteen: History of West Africa
® Quarter Assignments:
1.
Chapter(s) Tests: 3-4 Tests
2.
Quizzes: 4-6 Quizzes
3.
Homework: On average 3-4 Homework assignments per week. (Almost daily)
4.
Projects: 1-2 Projects
5.
Researches: 1-3 Researches
6.
Field Trip(s): One Field Trip
® Chapters’ Contents:
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Chapter Name
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Chapter Contents
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Objectives
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Unit
Two
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Chp. 6 Judaism and Christianity
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Section 1: Origins of
Judaism
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Section 2: Origins of
Christianity
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Section 3: The Byzantine
Empire
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·
Explaining the Jewish
beliefs, texts and traditions.
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Understanding how
Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire
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Discussing how the Roman
Empire split into two parts and how the Eastern prospered for hundreds of
years after the fall of the western empire fell.
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Chp. 7 History of the Islamic World
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Section 1: Origins of
Islam
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Section 2: Islamic
Beliefs and Practices
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Section 3: Muslim Empires
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Section 4: Cultural
Achievements
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Explaining Muhammad’s
introduction of Islam, the sacred texts guiding Muslims in their lives and
daily laws, and the three major empires that formed after the Religion’s
Early years.
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Listing Muslim Scholars
and artists that made important contributions to science, art and literature.
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Unit
Three
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Chp. 11 History of Ancient Egypt
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Section 1: Geography and
Early Egypt
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Section 2: The Old
Kingdom
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Section 3: The Middle and
New Kingdom
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Section 4: Egyptian
Achievements
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Discussing how the water
and fertile soils of the Nile Valley enabled a great civilization to develop
in Egypt.
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Explaining how the
Egyptian Government and Religion were closely connected during the Old Kingdom
and how order and greatness were restored during the Middle and New kingdoms.
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Listing the achievements
the Egyptians made in writing, art, and architecture.
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Chp. 12 History of Ancient Kush
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Section 1: Kush and Egypt
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Section 2: Later Kush
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Analyzing the timeline of
the Kushite Empire’s conquering
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Explaining how Kush
developed an advanced civilization with a large trading network.
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Chp. 13 History of West Africa
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Section 1: Empire of
Ghana
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Section 2: Mali and
Songhai
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Section 3: Historical and
Artistic Traditions
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Explaining how the rulers
of Ghana built an Empire by controlling the salt and gold trade.
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Discussing how West
African culture has been passed down through oral history, writings by other
people and arts.
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