You will learn an entire semester of World History in a flexible learning environment. What that means is that you will be provided with learning activities that you will complete. You will be responsible for learning on your own through a series of videos, documents, and other learning activities. I will be there to guide you, provide opportunities to interact with your classmates, and provide feedback. 

The course outline with topics to be covered is below.  While each class will be varied in the learning activities, the instructor will provide a weekly video/lecture with presentations that are guided by a daily focus, discussion questions/prompts that encourage higher-level thinking and discussion.  

Additionally, there will be video clips, review games, and quizzes implemented each week to optimize enrichment and feedback.  

We will begin with the Byzantine Empire and end the first half of the course with the French Revolution. Students will learn the major players, the events, all the while incorporating historical thinking skills. These include understanding cause and effect, placing events into the proper chronology, identifying change and continuity over time, and seeing the contextualization  (the big picture). 
The majority of classes will either consist of presentations with discussion and note-taking or the use of historical documents as evidence to learn about events and decisions that were made in history. 

Students will be challenged to back up all claims with concrete factual and historical evidence.