world history Industrial Era unit survival guide (6 weeks)

This is comprehensive “survival guide” for a unit on the Industrial Revolution and its effects - a full six weeks of curriculum formatted as a student handout with daily objectives and checks for understanding, key points, and visuals / sources to analyze. This particular survival guide includes excerpts from classic texts such as the Wealth of Nations, the Condition of the Working Class in England, and "What is a nation?".

Topics include: Life before the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution & its Prerequisites, Industrial Capitalism, Industrial Cities, Evaluating the Industrial Revolution (effects), political effects of the Industrial Revolution, Labor movements & Socialism, Communism, the Communist Manifesto, Comparing Economic Systems, Industrialization & Imperialism, Ideological justifications for Imperialism, Case studies for Imperialism (Africa, China, Japan), Nationalism, Great Power Competition & Militarism.

Can be used to supplement class activities as a reference or as a workbook, or as a unit plan.

Each lesson comes with a daily objective at the top, key points aligned to the rigor of AP but accessible for high school students, maps, graphics, and / or sources to analyze. This resource is teacher AND student friendly, in that it is designed to be printed and given to students as a study guide, but it also lends itself well to build individual lessons or discussions around each objective (and contains homework assignments and Checks for Understanding for use as a workbook in class)