Power Basics World History

Help students experience history beyond U.S. borders!

This Series provides on-level content at a controlled reading level and is organized into manageable instructional units that build proficiency and mastery.

Features:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of world history, from the Renaissance to the 1800 s
• Presents engaging profiles of international historical figures
• Focuses on essential people, places, and events that shaped the world
• Includes a concise time line of critical world events
• Grade level: Middle School and High School content with below-level readability

The compact (6½" x 8½"), lightweight, softcover textbooks provide a unique and student-friendly design. Power Basics reviews and reinforces fundamental language arts skills and strategies in vocabulary acquisition; reading comprehension and retention; grammar and usage; and writing sentences, paragraphs and essays.

The student textbooks focus on one concept at a time, illustrate concepts with concrete models and examples, and provide ample practice to achieve proficiency and mastery. The activities reinforce complex sentence structure; analytical reading skills; writing and editing; sentences, and paragraphs.

World History I PRE-History To The Middle Ages
Table of Contents: The First Communities, Mesopotamia, the First Civilization, The Civilization of the Nile, Other Cultures of the Fertile Crescent, Early Greek Civilizations, The Rise of the City-States, The Golden Age: The Gifts of Greece, Alexander the Great and Hellenism, Ancient India: The First Civilizations, Ancient Indian Empires and Dynasties, Ancient China: The First Civilizations, Ancient China: The Qin and Han Dynasties, Ancient Italy and the Early Republic of Rome, Rome: The Middle Republic, Rome: The Late Republic, The Roman Empire, An Empire Divided: The East, An Empire Divided: The West, Life in the Middle Ages, The Rise of Nations in Europe, The Rise of Islam, Life in the Islamic World, Invasions, The Ottoman Turks, The Great Era of China, The Mongol Empire, India Prospers, Early Japan, Early African Society, The Influence of Christianity and Islam in Africa, The Great Kingdoms of West Africa, and Early American Society.

World History II Renaissance to the late 1800's
Table of Contents: The Renaissance, A New Science, The Reformation, China Enters the Modern Age, India Under Mogul Rule, The Feudal State of Japan, The Need for New Trade Routes, Columbus Finds a New World , Europeans Explore the Americas, European Conquest and Colonization, A New Global Age, The Response of China and Japan to European Expansionism, Expansionism in India, Expansionism in Africa, New Ideas Lead to Revolution The Age of Reason in Europe, Revolutions in British America and France, The Napoleonic Era in Europe, Revolution in Latin America, Revolutions in Agriculture, The Industrial Revolution in Britain, Life in Britain During the Industrial Revolution, The Spread of the Industrial Revolution, Social Reform and Socialism, Nationalism and Liberalism in Europe, Nationalism and Expansionism in the United States, The age of Imperialism and Imperialism in Africa, Empire-Building in Southern Asia, China and Japan Respond to European Imperialism and Imperialism Around the World.

World History III 1900 to present
Table of Contents: The World Enters the Twentieth Century, The World Moves Toward War, The Great War, Searching for Peace, The Western Democracies, Changes in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, The Rise of Dictators in Europe, Military Japan and Communist Russia, The Road to War, The War Begins and Spreads, The War Goes Global, The World After the War, Europe: Democracy and the Iron Curtain, The Middle East and Africa, Asia After the War, The United States and Latin America, The United States and Canada, Mexico and Central America, The Caribbean, South America , Western Europe, Eastern and Central Europe, The Balkans, The Former Soviet Union, The Middle East, Africa I: Egypt, Libya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Africa II: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, The Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

Test packs includes reproducible tests for each chapter of the student textbook.

Each Classroom Set Includes: 10 student textbooks, 1 teacher s guide, 10 student workbooks with answer key and 1 test pack.

This program is ideal for:

• Special Education / Special Needs
• Struggling Learners
• Students-at-Risk
• Learning Disabled
• Remedial Education
• Differentiated Education