Global History & Geography II: c. 1750 to the Early 21st Century — Student & parent guide
A full-year Grade 10 global history and geography course for independent home study: c. 1750 to the Early 21st Century. Learn the background, institutions, mechanisms, and varied experiences before forming a judgment. Supplied evidence cases and source-study packets support study without an outside purchase.
A suggested lesson routine
- Read the background and locate the period and region.
- Explain each teaching section and attempt its reasoning check.
- Work through the evidence case before opening the model.
- Complete independent practice; identify the criterion supported by each answer.
- Revise and complete the exit check.
36 weeks × five flexible 45–60-minute sessions = 180 sessions: 120 unit sessions (40 × three), 24 workshop sessions (eight × three), 16 chapter review/quiz sessions (eight × two), eight midterm/final preparation, response, and feedback sessions, and 12 flexible retrieval, reteaching, or catch-up sessions. Session lengths are planning estimates, not measured completion times.
Keep a history, geography, and evidence notebook
Record date ranges, regions, institutions, vocabulary, causes, consequences, continuities, and a source limitation. Keep a map glossary, dated timeline, corrections, and revised workshop drafts. Label original items, course paraphrases, and illustrative scenarios separately.
Use assessments well
Every chapter has review and quiz questions covering all five units. Written responses require human marking; judge accurate context, relevant evidence, causal reasoning, and limitations rather than party preference, religion, family identity, or agreement with the parent. Midterm, final, and optional sample papers include worked keys and criteria.
Adjust the support
Use glossaries, oral responses, annotated timelines, and shorter reading blocks across multiple sessions. Linked scans and references extend the supplied packets; they are not prerequisites for attempting the tasks. No personal belief disclosure, interview, public posting, or purchase is required.
Reference tools
Teaching fairly across backgrounds
Name particular people, institutions, dates, and places. Explain differences within regions, religions, nationalities, and political movements. Apply the same evidence standards to every claim. Study beliefs as historical traditions without asking a learner to affirm or reject a faith.
Fairness does not require artificial balance between documented events and unsupported denial. Separate established facts, contested causes, moral judgment, and policy preference. Recognize agency and continuity alongside coercion, persecution, and unequal power.
Assessments and revision
The midterm covers Chapters 1–4; the final covers all eight. The sample is an optional shorter rehearsal that can replace a flexible session. These course-authored study assessments share topics and teaching cases with the lessons; keys are available and the papers are not secure or official school examinations.
For each exam answer award the three criteria separately. For a workshop score each of four criteria from 0 to 2: 2 = accurate and explained with evidence, 1 = partial or missing a distinction, 0 = missing or contradicted. Discuss the score out of 8, identify a specific gap, and ask for revision. Accept defensible alternatives and accessible response formats.
A 36-week study plan
Each chapter uses 20 sessions: 15 unit-study sessions, three workshop sessions, and two review/quiz sessions. Each half-year has four chapters (80 sessions), four examination sessions, and six flexible sessions, totaling 90. Move tasks between weeks to fit readiness, holidays, and reading or writing needs.
Weekly parent assignments: 36 weeks
Use the five ordered assignments per week as an adjustable calendar. Keep student-facing chapter and unit titles. The optional sample takes 60 minutes and may be split into two shorter blocks.
| Week | Sessions 1–5 in order |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 1. 1.1 The World Around 1750: States, Trade & Labor — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 1.1 The World Around 1750: States, Trade & Labor — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 1.1 The World Around 1750: States, Trade & Labor — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 1.2 Enlightenment: Reason, Rights & Political Debate — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 1.2 Enlightenment: Reason, Rights & Political Debate — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 2 | 1. 1.2 Enlightenment: Reason, Rights & Political Debate — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 1.3 American Revolution: Independence, Institutions & Limits — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 1.3 American Revolution: Independence, Institutions & Limits — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 1.3 American Revolution: Independence, Institutions & Limits — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 1.4 French Revolution & Napoleon: Rights, Conflict & Rule — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 3 | 1. 1.4 French Revolution & Napoleon: Rights, Conflict & Rule — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 1.4 French Revolution & Napoleon: Rights, Conflict & Rule — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 1.5 Haitian Revolution: Emancipation, War & Independence — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 1.5 Haitian Revolution: Emancipation, War & Independence — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 1.5 Haitian Revolution: Emancipation, War & Independence — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 4 | 1. Chapter 1 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 1 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 1 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 1 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 1 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 5 | 1. 2.1 Latin American Independence: Coalitions & New States — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 2.1 Latin American Independence: Coalitions & New States — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 2.1 Latin American Independence: Coalitions & New States — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 2.2 Nationalism, Unification & Political Membership — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 2.2 Nationalism, Unification & Political Membership — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 6 | 1. 2.2 Nationalism, Unification & Political Membership — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 2.3 Industrialization: Energy, Machines & Production — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 2.3 Industrialization: Energy, Machines & Production — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 2.3 Industrialization: Energy, Machines & Production — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 2.4 Economic Systems: Markets, Ownership & Socialism — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 7 | 1. 2.4 Economic Systems: Markets, Ownership & Socialism — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 2.4 Economic Systems: Markets, Ownership & Socialism — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 2.5 Industrial Society: Work, Cities & Unequal Change — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 2.5 Industrial Society: Work, Cities & Unequal Change — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 2.5 Industrial Society: Work, Cities & Unequal Change — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 8 | 1. Chapter 2 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 2 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 2 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 2 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 2 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 9 | 1. 3.1 Reform: Labor Organizing, Suffrage & Public Services — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 3.1 Reform: Labor Organizing, Suffrage & Public Services — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 3.1 Reform: Labor Organizing, Suffrage & Public Services — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 3.2 New Imperialism: Territory, Extraction & Colonial Rule — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 3.2 New Imperialism: Territory, Extraction & Colonial Rule — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 10 | 1. 3.2 New Imperialism: Territory, Extraction & Colonial Rule — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 3.3 Resistance & Response: India, Ethiopia & Colonial Power — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 3.3 Resistance & Response: India, Ethiopia & Colonial Power — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 3.3 Resistance & Response: India, Ethiopia & Colonial Power — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 3.4 China in the Nineteenth Century: War, Rebellion & Reform — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 11 | 1. 3.4 China in the Nineteenth Century: War, Rebellion & Reform — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 3.4 China in the Nineteenth Century: War, Rebellion & Reform — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 3.5 Meiji Japan: State Reform, Industry & Empire — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 3.5 Meiji Japan: State Reform, Industry & Empire — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 3.5 Meiji Japan: State Reform, Industry & Empire — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 12 | 1. Chapter 3 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 3 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 3 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 3 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 3 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 13 | 1. 4.1 World War I: Crisis, Global Mobilization & Warfare — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 4.1 World War I: Crisis, Global Mobilization & Warfare — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 4.1 World War I: Crisis, Global Mobilization & Warfare — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 4.2 Russian Revolutions: War, Competing Authority & Civil War — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 4.2 Russian Revolutions: War, Competing Authority & Civil War — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 14 | 1. 4.2 Russian Revolutions: War, Competing Authority & Civil War — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 4.3 After World War I: Treaties, Mandates & Economic Crisis — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 4.3 After World War I: Treaties, Mandates & Economic Crisis — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 4.3 After World War I: Treaties, Mandates & Economic Crisis — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 4.4 Interwar Dictatorships: Institutions, Ideology & Coercion — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 15 | 1. 4.4 Interwar Dictatorships: Institutions, Ideology & Coercion — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 4.4 Interwar Dictatorships: Institutions, Ideology & Coercion — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 4.5 World War II: Expansion, Global War & Civilian Consequences — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 4.5 World War II: Expansion, Global War & Civilian Consequences — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 4.5 World War II: Expansion, Global War & Civilian Consequences — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 16 | 1. Chapter 4 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 4 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 4 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 4 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 4 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 17 | 1. Midterm — prepare chronology and evidence methods | 2. Midterm — first response block (60 minutes) | 3. Midterm — second response block (60 minutes) | 4. Midterm — mark, discuss, and revise | 5. Flexible session 1 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing |
| Week 18 | 1. Flexible session 2 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 2. Flexible session 3 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 3. Flexible session 4 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 4. Flexible session 5 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 5. Flexible session 6 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing |
| Week 19 | 1. 5.1 The Holocaust: Escalation, Evidence & Jewish Lives — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 5.1 The Holocaust: Escalation, Evidence & Jewish Lives — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 5.1 The Holocaust: Escalation, Evidence & Jewish Lives — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 5.2 1945 & the Postwar Order: Nuclear Weapons, Trials & Reconstruction — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 5.2 1945 & the Postwar Order: Nuclear Weapons, Trials & Reconstruction — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 20 | 1. 5.2 1945 & the Postwar Order: Nuclear Weapons, Trials & Reconstruction — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 5.3 Cold War: Institutions, Security & Competing Systems — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 5.3 Cold War: Institutions, Security & Competing Systems — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 5.3 Cold War: Institutions, Security & Competing Systems — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 5.4 China After 1949: Revolution, Campaigns & Reform — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 21 | 1. 5.4 China After 1949: Revolution, Campaigns & Reform — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 5.4 China After 1949: Revolution, Campaigns & Reform — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 5.5 Decolonization: Sovereignty, Movements & New Institutions — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 5.5 Decolonization: Sovereignty, Movements & New Institutions — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 5.5 Decolonization: Sovereignty, Movements & New Institutions — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 22 | 1. Chapter 5 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 5 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 5 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 5 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 5 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 23 | 1. 6.1 South Asia: Independence, Partition & State Building — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 6.1 South Asia: Independence, Partition & State Building — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 6.1 South Asia: Independence, Partition & State Building — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 6.2 African Independence: Ghana, Algeria & Varied Paths — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 6.2 African Independence: Ghana, Algeria & Varied Paths — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 24 | 1. 6.2 African Independence: Ghana, Algeria & Varied Paths — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 6.3 Middle East, 1918–1979: States, Palestine & Resources — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 6.3 Middle East, 1918–1979: States, Palestine & Resources — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 6.3 Middle East, 1918–1979: States, Palestine & Resources — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 6.4 Korea & Vietnam: Local Histories in Cold War Conflicts — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 25 | 1. 6.4 Korea & Vietnam: Local Histories in Cold War Conflicts — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 6.4 Korea & Vietnam: Local Histories in Cold War Conflicts — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 6.5 Cold War’s End: Reform, Protest & State Transformation — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 6.5 Cold War’s End: Reform, Protest & State Transformation — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 6.5 Cold War’s End: Reform, Protest & State Transformation — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 26 | 1. Chapter 6 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 6 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 6 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 6 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 6 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 27 | 1. 7.1 Globalization: Supply Chains, Trade & Unequal Effects — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 7.1 Globalization: Supply Chains, Trade & Unequal Effects — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 7.1 Globalization: Supply Chains, Trade & Unequal Effects — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 7.2 Human Rights: Declaration, Institutions & Implementation — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 7.2 Human Rights: Declaration, Institutions & Implementation — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 28 | 1. 7.2 Human Rights: Declaration, Institutions & Implementation — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 7.3 South Africa: Apartheid, Resistance & Democratic Transition — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 7.3 South Africa: Apartheid, Resistance & Democratic Transition — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 7.3 South Africa: Apartheid, Resistance & Democratic Transition — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 7.4 Latin America, 1959–1990: Revolution, Dictatorship & Democracy — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 29 | 1. 7.4 Latin America, 1959–1990: Revolution, Dictatorship & Democracy — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 7.4 Latin America, 1959–1990: Revolution, Dictatorship & Democracy — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 7.5 Technology & Society: Food, Communication & Access — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 7.5 Technology & Society: Food, Communication & Access — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 7.5 Technology & Society: Food, Communication & Access — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 30 | 1. Chapter 7 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 7 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 7 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 7 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 7 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 31 | 1. 8.1 Migration, Displacement & Public Health in Global History — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 8.1 Migration, Displacement & Public Health in Global History — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 8.1 Migration, Displacement & Public Health in Global History — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 8.2 Rwanda & Bosnia: Genocide, Institutions & Accountability — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 8.2 Rwanda & Bosnia: Genocide, Institutions & Accountability — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 32 | 1. 8.2 Rwanda & Bosnia: Genocide, Institutions & Accountability — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 8.3 Environmental Change: Development, Climate & Cooperation — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 8.3 Environmental Change: Development, Climate & Cooperation — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 8.3 Environmental Change: Development, Climate & Cooperation — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 8.4 The 2007–2009 Financial Crisis: Credit, Risk & Responses — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 33 | 1. 8.4 The 2007–2009 Financial Crisis: Credit, Risk & Responses — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 8.4 The 2007–2009 Financial Crisis: Credit, Risk & Responses — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 8.5 Global History Capstone: An Evidence-Based Comparative Essay — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 8.5 Global History Capstone: An Evidence-Based Comparative Essay — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 8.5 Global History Capstone: An Evidence-Based Comparative Essay — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 34 | 1. Chapter 8 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 8 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 8 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 8 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 8 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 35 | 1. Final — first response block (60 minutes) | 2. Final — second response block (60 minutes) | 3. Final — third response block (60 minutes) | 4. Final — mark, discuss, and revise | 5. Flexible session 1 — optional sample examination rehearsal |
| Week 36 | 1. Flexible session 2 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 2. Flexible session 3 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 3. Flexible session 4 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 4. Flexible session 5 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 5. Flexible session 6 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work |
The dated endpoint and further study
Modern-history explanations here use bounded cases through the early twenty-first century, including the 2015 Paris Agreement. They do not establish the present status of every conflict, law, political office, health recommendation, or national commitment. For a later event, create a dated evidence table using original institutional records and independent reporting, then distinguish confirmed facts from contested claims.
The eight chapters teach the broad New York Global History II span, but this course is not a completed standard-by-standard district audit or a secure Regents examination. Source-study packets identify fragments and paraphrases; linked full records are optional deeper study. No source packet is presented as the entire document.
Curriculum references
Chapter and unit titles organize student work. Weekly assignments appear only in the parent plan. This independently authored sequence is not a district daily syllabus or official examination preparation guarantee.
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Historical source and collection references checked during course authoring on 2026-10-10. The final period is bounded historical study, not a live account of current officeholders, conflicts, or laws.
Independently authored home-study curriculum using the broad New York global-history span. Not district-approved, a secure official examination, or a determination of homeschool credit.