High School Curriculum Explorer · Grades 9–12

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World History

Suggested grades 9–10 · Unit 3: Conflict and International Institutions

Separate a Trigger from Conditions for War

Use a short World War I timeline without treating order as a complete explanation.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Separate a Trigger from Conditions for War
Preview lesson: Separate a Trigger from Conditions for War

Goal: Distinguish trigger, prior condition and later event, then evaluate an overly simple causal account.

Before this: Read a timeline and evaluate multi-causal explanations.

Try together: Together explain why Germany’s August invasion cannot be the cause of the earlier June assassination in this proposed sequence.

Supporting literacy connectionRH.9-10.3Grades 9–10
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World History

Suggested grades 9–10 · Unit 3: Conflict and International Institutions

Read an Institution’s Founding Purpose Critically

Summarize the creation of the United Nations while distinguishing aspiration from historical evaluation.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Read an Institution’s Founding Purpose Critically
Preview lesson: Read an Institution’s Founding Purpose Critically

Goal: Write an accurate summary of two founding dates and explain what the founding account can and cannot demonstrate.

Before this: Distinguish an intended purpose from an observed result; summarize a source accurately.

Try together: Discuss whether knowing an organization’s goal is useful even when it does not establish success.

Supporting literacy connectionRH.9-10.2Grades 9–10
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