A Connected World: Globalization and Its Fault Lines, 1991-Present: Social Studies Unit 8, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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A Connected World: Globalization and Its Fault Lines, 1991-Present is Unit 8 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 82 pages.

• The four recurring course patterns (exchange network, revolution-vs-reform, industrial extraction, ideology-as-administration) and their diagnostic features
• Definitions and mechanisms of exchange network, revolution-vs-reform, industrial extraction, and ideology-as-administration
• The four-question sorting protocol for pattern identification
• The limits of pattern-matching when applied to a genuinely contested contemporary case
• Structural similarities and differences between Columbian Exchange-era demographic disruption and contemporary migration/displacement
• The structural limits of multinational institutions when national sovereignty conflicts with institutional authority
• Peer arguments about which course pattern best explains a contemporary case
• An original evidence-based argument applying the course’s cumulative pattern toolkit to a novel case
• The structure of a relational evidence-based historical argument (claim-evidence-linking explanation) as opposed to a multistructural list

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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