Simplified teaching units from the 19th century to the contemporary world
Product: Book
ISBN: 9788859013983
Publication date: 01/09/2017
Suitable for: Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)
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Designed for all pupils as a supplement to standard text books, but also as support and remediation for struggling pupils , this book follows the history national curriculum for year two of lower secondary school.
Each topic (from the 19th century to the contemporary world) includes:
– concise, simplified texts,
– timelines,
– summarising information maps,
– key concepts,
– tests,
– summary tables,
– reading lists
– ideas for research activities.
The contents are also highly suitable for holiday revision or revision in subsequent school years.
The book contains colour stickers and a timeline poster to make and hang up in class.
Presentation (Sofia Cramerotti)
Introduction
Module 1: The new century
Italy after Unification
Colonialism, imperialism and nationalism
The beginning of the nineteenth century in Italy and in Europe
Module 2: The First World War
The Great War
The end of the First World War and its consequences
Module 3: The interwar period
The USSR and Stalinism
Fascism in Italy
Nazism in Germany
Module 4: The Second World War
The prelude and the war years
The Resistance in Italy and in Europe
The end of the conflict and its consequences
Module 5: The post-war period
The Cold War
Reconstruction and the «economic miracle» in Italy
Decolonisation
The fall of communism
Crisis in the Arab world
The European Union
Contemporary problems in the world