Ms. Marmolejo's World History Class Webpage
March 19, 2007
Course Title: World History
Class Rules
1. Respect yourself, the classroom, your fellow classmates and the teacher.
2. Be here! Be on time, be prepared, and take action to find out what needs to be made up when you are absent.
3. No food, drinks, music, beepers or cell phones.
4. The Teacher may change the rules as it pertains to the class.5. Be ready to participate. We will work hard and you will have the opportunity to be an active participant in the classroom.
6. Smile!
Teacher: Marissa Marmolejo
Conference Time: 7th period 3:10 to
4:00 p.m. Room F16
Email: mmarmolejo@eeisd.org
Introduction: This class has one major goal –
to increase your ability to think creatively about past and
contemporary events throughout the world by developing a
comparative and historical perspective. This year we will be
studying diverse cultures, economies and political systems
throughout the modern world. In general, our study of this era in
world history will focus on the interaction between different
societies, empires and nations. One could study each of these
societies, empire s and nations in depth, as separate and isolated
subjects, yet in this course we will adopt a comparative
perspective that will attempt to identify important global trends
and changes in the unfolding of the modern world. In this sense,
this course is all about context. This means that as we roam the
globe in our effort to uncover the histories of different societies
or events, we will constantly have to ask ourselves what other
societies or events in the world (both past and contemporary) do we
also need to examine in order to more fully understand the
immediate subject at hand. In each of our units of study we will
thus strive to adopt a global, comparative, and historical
perspective. Once we have begun to feel comfortable with this
global, comparative and historical perspective we will have to
decide how much emphasis should be placed on studying economy
versus culture or politics. For example, when we attempt to explain
Europe’s exploration of the world, do we think it is more important
to look at Europe’s economic desires (increasing treasuries of gold
and building profitable trade routes), or its religious goals
(spreading Christianity and triumphing over Muslims). Some of you
will find economic explanations of history more compelling, while
others will gravitate to political, social or cultural
explanations. As you begin to master the skills of historical
inquiry one of our objectives will be to identify and discuss the
merits and limitations of these various approaches while we work
towards integrating them. While there is no approach to the past
that can take into account all perspectives, we can at least strive
to become aware of the biases and limitations of the approaches we
use.
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