Global Context Question
What is the meaning of where and when?
Orientation in Space and Time
Students will explore personal histories; homes and journeys; turning points in humankind; discoveries; explorations and migrations of humankind; the relationships between and the interconnectedness of individuals and civilizations from personal, local and global perspectives.
Personal Histories
How did you get there?
Homes and Journeys
Where is home?
What journeys have you been on?
What journeys have your family been on?
What journeys have your people been on?
Individual History (Buddha)
- Siddhartha was born into a royal family in Nepal (the village of Lumbini)
a. he was insulated from the sufferings of life. - After marrying and having a child he traveled from the comforts of his home and viewed: old man, a sick man and a corpse
a. learned that this was the inevitable and unavoidable fate of human beings. - Leaving the comfort of his life of luxury, Siddhartha attempted to escape the inevitability of mortality through becoming holy
a. (escaping human fate by studying religious men), following a life of self-denial
i. (asceticism[the denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual goal] to escape mortal suffering);
b. the middle way (neither luxury nor poverty). - One day he took shade under the Bodhi tree completing a “space-like concentration on the Dharmakaya”
- in the meditation posture and vowed not to rise from meditation until he had attained perfect enlightenment.
Individual vs Civilization
How interconnected are we to society?
How much power do we have?
Natural and human landscapes and resources
Natural landscapes: geographical features
Human landscapes: political affiliation, urban areas, and demographics
Societal Journey (Transatlantic Slave Trade)
- The forced global migration of millions of slaves from Afric to the Americas (across the Atlantic Ocean). During the 16 to 19th centuries.
- The Europeans consumers’ demands for sugar drove the 350 year slave trade
a. Europe was known as the starting point point for more than half of the voyages.
b. Brazil was also known as a port for slaves as they sent out more slaves than any port in Europe. - Known as the largest forced legally sanctioned movement in history.
a. The trafficking of africans by European countries is referred to as Mafaa (‘great disaster’-Swahili), by African scholars. - The kidnapping of Africans occurred in the region spanning Senegal and Angola.
- Also dubbed the triangle trade because the voyages were three sided: Europe to Africa, Africa to the americas and the americas back to Europe.
- Europe was able to garner slaves because of their relationship with the Africans
a. (without the help of the native people they would have been unable to procure slaves).
b. The Europeans would ship: alcohol, guns and textiles to the African kings in exchange for human labor.
c. This relationship was unfair and resulted in Africa : losing millions of people, their societies destroyed which created conditions for European conquest and colonization.
Individual Journey (Malcolm X)
- Malcolm X moved Detroit after a rough child hood
a. (father-killed by whites, mother-sent to an insane asylum, discouraged from becoming a lawyer). - He became rebellious and moved to his half sister’s home in Detroit and became involved in criminal activity.
- During his imprisonment he underwent a re-invention that led him to become a practicer of the Nation of Islam
a. (African American movement that used aspects of black nationalism) - he contributed greatly to the movement
a. (opening temples and founding the newspaper- Muhammad Speaks)
b. he initiated the nation’s beliefs of inherent evil of whites and the natural superiority of blacks. - Malcolm properly communicated the pent up emotions of the black community during the civil rights movement.
- Leaving the nation in 1964, allowed Malcolm’s pilgrimage to Mecca, prompting his embracement of Sunni Islam.
- The hostility between the Nation and Malcolm, led to his assassination during his lecture in 1965.
Consequence
Cause and effect
Sample layout: extended response
Assesses students’ ability to engage in producing a piece of extended writing/communicating creatively.
A/10 - detailed knowledge, conflict, ideology specifics
B./ -
C/20 - organization (ELA, structure and essay), lit devices, logical structure
Civil Rights Movement (Orientation in space and time example)
Jim Crow laws (state and local laws that enforced racial segregation) existed during 1950 but the roots of the civil rights movement were developed as a result of WWII (the jobs being opened to africans and women as a result of necessity.
