8th Grade Curriculum

Unit: The Rise of Islam (PDF - Printable Version)

Highlighted Questions - Thematic Essential Questions focused on during this unit.

The Rise of Islam Unit Website

 

GSTEQ

History Alive!

Medieval Times Textbook

Supplemental

Assessments

Standards

1. Why do people live and move where they do?

2.1 Mapping the Modern Muslim World

Ch. 1.2 The Rise and Spread of Islam

 

 

RIGSE: 5-1 – Many ways Earth’s people are interconnected

RIGSE: 5-2 – Interconnected World

RIGSE: 5-3 – Choices Interconnected world

RIGSE HP 2

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 4 WH 5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1

2. Why do people live the way they do?

1.2 The Prophet Muhammad

1.3 Applying the Teachings of the Qu’ran and Hadith

3.1 The Contributions of Muslims to World Civilization

Ch. 1.2 The Rise and Spread of Islam

Ch. 1.3 The Religion of Islam

Ch. 1.4 Islam’s Golden Age

Article: Faith of the Followers, etc…

 

RIGSE G&C 1-4
RIGSE HP 1-3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1,2

3. How and why do human societies organize the way they do?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1-2, 4

Era 1 WH 2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5,6

Era 5 WH 1,2

4. How does technology affect people’s lives?

3.1 The Contributions of Muslims to World Civilization

Ch. 1.4 Islam’s Golden Age

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 5

RIGSE – HP1

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,6

Era 5 WH 1,2

5. How has conflict and cooperation shaped human history?

4.1 The Crusades

4.2 Creating an Historical Symposium on the Crusades

 

 

Ch. 5.3 The Crusades

Video: Crusades???

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,3,5

RIGSE – HP1,2,3

Era 2 WH 1,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3

Era 5 WH 1,2

6. How has the quest for resources affected human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 5 WH 1,2

7. How do we know what we know about human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 3 WH 1,4

Era 4 WH 1,5,6

8. Why do civilizations rise & decline?

2.2 The Development of a Muslim Empire

Ch. 1.4 Islam’s Golden Age

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1,2