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10th Grade Course Information

Global Studies is a two year survey course.  We begin in 9th grade with the earliest humans and civilizations, and go up to present day in 10th grade.  There is a Regents Exam at the end of the 10th grade year that covers both 9th and 10th grade information.  The Regents Exam Schedule is here:  Regents Exam Schedule

Below is the whole course in outline form.  To see what we're currently working on, click here:  Calendar

 

Tenth Grade Course Outline 

Absolutism

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The rise and fall of monarchs from many countries who tried to take all of the power

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Topics include monarchies from:
  - Spain
  - France
  - England
  - Russia
 

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Prussia
     
Scientific Revolution

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The beginnings of scientific thought and the use of logic and reason

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Topics include contributions from:
  - Francis Bacon
  - Nicolaus Copernicus
  - Johannes Kepler
  - Galileo Galilei
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Isaac Newton

  - Andreas Vesalius
  - William Harvey
  - William Gilbert
  - Benjamin Franklin
  - John Napier
  - Rene Descartes
  - Gottfried Leibnez
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Anton von Leeuwenhoek

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Christian Huygens

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Anders Celsius

       
Enlightenment
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