History 10
The Instructor for this course is Anthony Prima
Course History
First Offered in 2014
Developed by Todd Paslawski
Redeveloped in 2025 by Anthony Prima
History 10 This course is designed in 5 units to give students an understanding of the ways in which humans establish various forms of co-existence and governance as a means of meeting their needs and wants. These organizations may include a variety of political or economic foundations.
Course Information / Credit Recovery Units
Foundational Objectives for the Course
The knowledge objectives:
1. understand that humans establish various kinds of organizations as a means of systematically meeting their needs and wants;
2. understand that individuals within organizations must have some way of resolving differences and making and enforcing conclusions so that a collective course of action can be carried out;
3. understand that industrial societies are based on a complex system of political and economic organizations, which makes possible the production of goods and services;
4. understand that whenever groups, societies, or nations interact, they do so according to patterns of beliefs and values which are both implicitly and explicitly accepted by the members of the group; and,
5. understand that nations must live within a community of other nations in which the sovereignty of one nation must be reconciled with the sovereignty of another.
The skills/abilities:
1. learn to make hypotheses based on reasonable assumptions and inferences;
2. learn to test hypotheses using established criteria; and,
3. learn to organize data so that relationships within the data may be analyzed.
The values objectives:
1. appreciate the necessity of interdependence within human relationships;
2. appreciate the legitimate constraints that interdependence places on the actions of individuals and nations; and,
3. appreciate the need for social organizations to bring order to social life.
Unit Overview
Unit 1 - Political Organizations (20 Hours) - 20% of Mark
Students will examine the problems French society faced in attempting to move from an absolutist political organization to one based on principles of equality and liberty. Core concepts that will be covered: social organizations, social contracts, decision making, and power.
Unit 2 - Economic Organizations (20 Hours)- 20% of Mark
Students in his unit analyze how the development of economic infrastructures made the industrial revolution possible. Students will examine how British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evolved as it went through the industrialization process. Core concepts that will be covered: standard of living, scarcity of resources, and economic systems.
Unit 3 - Ideology and Decision Making (20 Hours)- 20% of Mark
In this unit students look at the ideological struggles between and among the social classes as industrializing societies attempt to reconcile competing interests. Students will examine the major political ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism) that developed in the nineteenth century. Core concepts that will be covered: pluralism, decision making, conflict, politics, legitimacy, ideology, and social contracts.
Unit 4 - International Economic Organizations (20 hours) - 20% of Mark
This unit is intended to help students understand the impact Western societies have had on the rest of the world. Students will look at the various ways societies dealt with the new industrial culture which was spreading across the world at this time. Core concepts that will be covered: economic growth, protections, and international trade.
Unit 5 - International Political Organizations (20 hours) - 20% of Mark
Students will examine the relations between European countries prior to the First World War in order to gain some understanding of the way countries deal with each other. They will use the concepts and skills they have learned to critically analyze the way countries have attempted to resolve their conflicts.
