Modern History: Second Industrial Revolution, World War I, the Great Depression

This is part of a year-long social studies curriculum designed to be inclusive and support neurodiverse students including twice-exceptional students by providing leveled text, embedded graphics, dyslexia-friendly support, and explicit instruction on executive functioning including notetaking and study skills. This class meets two days a week and homework is provided for students to practice their developing skills for two additional days. Students will master social studies standards, build independent learning skills, and practice self-advocacy and self-regulation. 
This is the first quarter of the year in which students will continue learning about world history with a global perspective that allows them to better understand modern history and current events. This course also integrates art history and strategies like visual thinking in order to engage students and showcase the variety of ways we can learn culture and history through art as record keeping, archeology, and contemporary societies. It is also inquiry-based with a question of the day prompting students to reflect and providing an opportunity for analysis, inference, and academic writing. This course also allows students the chance to practice lecture-based learning skills needed for advanced academic opportunities in short bursts and is aligned with the content of standardized world history and western civilization exams. 
Week 1: 
-Classroom Norms and Structure
-The Second Industrial Revolution Technologies and Events
- Industrial Frontiers (Canada, Italy, Russia, and Japan)
- Obstacles to Industrialization (Colonization, Exploitation, and Geographic Factors)
- Motives and Means of Imperialism

Week 2:
- Colonial Expansion and Empires
- Conflict between Imperial Powers
- Colonization of the Pacific
- Resistance to Colonization and Revolutions 

Week 3: 
- Mini Project One: Writing on Colonization and Industrialization using Primary Sources
- Life in The Industrial Era 
-Benefits of Industrialization on Individuals 

Week 4
- Challenges of Industrialization on individuals (economics, health, and hygiene)
- Coerced and Forced Labor during Industrialization
- Asian Exodus and response to Asian Immigration
- Moralism and Poverty (Social Problems of Industrial Era in the West)

Week 5
- Mini Project Two (Argumentative Writing)
- Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict Pre-WWI
- Growth of Militarism
- Collapse of the Ottomans

Week 6:
- Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
- World War I
- Military Technology
-The United States Joining the War
- Racism and World War I
- Impacts of War on the Homefront

Week 7: 
- Women's War Efforts
- The Civilian Response
- Challenges in Wartime Russia
- The end of World War I
- Mini Project 3: Propaganda

Week 8: 
- Economic and Social conditions following World War I
- Treaty of Versailles
- Washington Naval Conference
-Commitment to Peace 
- The Great Depression 

Week 9:
- Student Designed Final Project