COMPLETE COURSE: Early Modern SOW PPTs, Teacher's Guide/ Syllabus & Lecture Vido

Designed for teachers, this digital download product includes the full 16-week COMPLETE lecture video links, Teacher's Guide/ Syllabus as well as the PPTs designed to enrich your learner’s understanding of the text: Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer. I am creating this additional resource package to assist teachers in facilitating their own instruction and also to provide a video option for substitutes.

The downloads provide the detail into each of the weekly topics, reading assignments, lecture videos with multi-media presentation, discussion/ essay questions, and supplemental video/ activity links for enrichment through the course syllabus and teacher's outline.

This Story of the World: Early Modern Times for Young Learners course is also available in separate packages of multimedia power points as well as the companion syllabus & teacher outline for your own use which can be purchased separately or via bundle. I provide 15-22 slides per lesson with text specific discussion questions, appropriate cultural literacy terms, supplemental videos, writing topics, recommended literature and links to creative activities for your use. Week fifteen is reserved for final presentations and a Kahoot Review. Topics of discussion include:

Week One: German Fury; Philip and Isabella; Columbus, Conquistadors, Encomienda, New Spain; William the Silent, Protestant vs. Catholic Europe, Netherlands; Mary, Queen of Scots; King James of Scotland and England, Puritans, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes Day, King James Bible; Jamestown, John Smith, Pocahontas, John Rolfe

Week Two: Northwest Passage, Chaplain, New France: Hudson Bay; Plymouth & Massachusetts Bay Colonies; Dutch East & West India Trade Companies, New Amsterdam; Jamestown, Tobacco, Columbian Exchange/ Triangle of Trade

Week Three: Daimyo, Shoguns, Samurai; Tokugawa Dynasty; Shimabara Uprising; Zen Buddhism; Qing Dynasty, Manchu; Indian Moghul Dynasty: Taj Mahal, English Trade

Week Four: Thirty Years War: Germany’s Holy War, Catholic and Protestant Allies; King Charles I of England, Puritan Immigration, Oliver Cromwell; Black Plague and London’s Fire; France’s Absolute Monarchy: King Louis XIV, Sun King, Versailles Palace

Week Five: Prussia, 30 Years War; First Reich; Peter the Great, Window to Western Culture; The Great Northern War; St. Petersburg; Catherine the Great; Czar

Week Six: King Phillip’s War, New France, Huron & Iroquois Indians; Quakers; William Penn, Pennsylvania, The Holy Experiment; Glorious Revolution of England, Constitutional Monarchy; The Enlightenment: Sir Isaac Newton, Laws of Gravity; Francis Bacon: Scientific Method, Universal Laws; John Lock; Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Farming Methods

Week Seven: Gunpowder Empires: Safavid, Ottoman and Moghul; Taj Mahal; Muslim and Hindu Influence in India, Sharia Law; British East India Company, Battle of Plassey, Puppet-king

Week Eight: Seven Years War/ French Indian War; Guerilla Warfare; American Revolution; ‘No Taxation Without Representation’; Boston Tea Party; Declaration of Independence; ‘Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness’; Common Sense; Treaty of Paris

Week Nine: Constitution; Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branches of Government; Founding Fathers; Bill of Rights; First President George Washington; Public and Private Virtue; Captain Cook; Great Southern Continent

Week Ten: French Revolution: Estates General, Marie Antionette: Let Them Eat Cake, Bourgeoisie, Bastille, Reign of Terror; Robespierre; Napoleon Bonaparte, COUP D’ÉTAT, Louisiana Purchase

Week Eleven: Industrial Revolution, Steam Engine: Factories and Locomotives; Luddites; Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin, Standardization, Patents

Week Twelve: Lewis and Clark Expedition: Sacagawea, Continental Divide, Northwest Passage; Indiana Territory; Tecumseh; William Henry Harrison; Downfall of Napoleon; War of 1812

Week Thirteen: Qing Dynasty: Kowtow, Opium Trade and First War; New Zealand: Annex, Maori Haka; Haitian Revolution: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Abolitionist, Slave Trade, Sun Never Sets on British Empire

Week Fourteen: South American Rebellions and Revolution: Simon Bolivar, San Martin; Mexican Independence: Cry of Dolores, Hidalgo, Three Guarantees; Africa: Zulu, Boers, British Colonization, Scramble for Africa; Dr. Henry Livingston, Victoria Falls

Week Fifteen: Indian Removal Act: Cherokee, Trail of Tears; Nat Turner’s Rebellion; Texas Independence: Remember the Alamo, Santa Anna, Mexico-American War; Gold Rush, Sutter’s Mill, Forty-Niners, “Staking a Claim”

Week Sixteen: Presentations and Kahoot Review