Descubra el mundo moderno: historia y arte (1850-2001) Plan de estudios completo de 34 semanas

Learners will engage with the stories of the people of the modern age and complete a step by step art project each week.   

Week 1: Queen Victoria – painting the Glass Palace
Week 2: The Crimean Wars – drawing a portrait of Florence Nightingale
Week 3: British Invasions – drawing a map of the British and Indian invasion in the Middle East
Week 4: The Italian Nation – painting a portrait of Victor Emmanuel
Week 5: The American Civil War – drawing Abraham Lincoln
Week 6: The Dominion of Canada – painting a Canadian landscape
Week 7: The Meiji Restoration – design a Noh play
Week 8: The Dutch East Indies – draw a map of the East Indies 
Week 9: The Suez Canal – drawing a boat on the Suez Canal 
Week 10: Carving up Africa – create a textured map of the European claimed land in Africa
Week 11: Ireland’s Troubles – Irish landscape painting
Week 12: Brazil's Republic – portrait of Pedro II
Week 13: The Spanish American War – create your own newspaper
Week 14:  American Expansion – painting a pioneer landscape
Week 15: World War I – drawing the Lusitania 
Week 16: The Russian Revolution
Week 17: The Mexican Revolution
1/24, Week 18: The End of WWI
1/31, Week 19: The Easter Uprising
2/7, Week 20: The Treaty of Versailles
2/14, Week 21: Stalin in Russia
2/28, Week 22: Ghandi, Abbas II of Egypt
3/7, Week 23: Italy after the Great War
(No Class the week's of March 10th and March 17)
         Week 24: The Great Crash
3/28, Week 25: Hitler's Rise to Power
4/4, Week 26: The Beginning of WWII
4/11, Week 27: The Devestation of WWII
4/18, Week 28: The End of WWII
4/25, Week 29: Europe After WWII
5/2, Week 30: Communism in Asia
5/9, Week 31: The Cold War
5/16, Week 32: Civil Rights
5/23, Week 33: The 1980's
6/6, Week 34: The End of the USSR