World History: Patterns of Interaction

World History Textbook and Enhanced Curriculum Grades 9–12

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  • Why?

    Exclusive Partnership with HISTORY®

    Together, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HISTORY® are creating a new arena in the classroom—and an opportunity for students to relive, reflect, and re-imagine the people, places, events, and decisions that have made us who we are today.

    Supporting Common Core with Rigor, Skills, and Document-based Instruction

    With today’s emphasis on Common Core State Standards, it is more important than ever to have a social studies program that meets the rigor these standards demand. World History: Patterns of Interaction exposes students to a wealth of primary sources and develops critical skills while analyzing a variety of perspectives and investigating key historical topics.

    Experience Social Studies with 21st-century Tools

    The digital generation of students today is like none before, so another way we help them experience success is to provide the capability to access their World History: Patterns of Interaction book not only on a computer, but on a variety of mobile devices. In addition, with products co-developed with HISTORY® such as the iBooks® textbook, Streaming Digital Media Library and the Multimedia Classroom Packages, you will be meeting students where they already are—online.

    Engage Students with Accessible Social Studies Content

    From reading support to differentiated instruction, World History: Patterns of Interaction is filled with a variety of student-friendly features designed to enhance the learning experience. With this support, every student can understand how events in our world’s history affect how we live our lives today.

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    • Interactive Brochure

      Experience World History: Patterns of Interaction through an innovative Interactive Brochure! Watch World History: Patterns of Interaction come alive with embedded interactive links. Sample videos, technology demonstrations, and more are just a click away!

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      Experience World History: Patterns of Interaction Today!

      World History: Patterns of Interaction integrates HISTORY® multimedia to help all students make connections between the past and present. Explore how this program engages students.

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    • Common Core

      With today’s emphasis on Common Core State Standards, it is more important than ever to have a social studies program that meets the rigor these standards demand. World History: Patterns of Interaction exposes students to the skills and understandings necessary for college and career readiness and helps them become literate, in all its forms, in the 21st century.

      The Grades 6–12 strand in Social Sciences promotes an interdisciplinary approach to literacy by:

      • Including primary source analysis and Common Core informational text reading
      • Incorporating literature and historical fiction selections
      • Utilizing higher-order thinking skills of text evidence, determining point-of-view, distinguishing fact from opinion, and more

      College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards

      Reading in History/Social Sciences

      Key Ideas and Details

      Using key skills like analyzing, evaluating, determining main idea from supporting detail, and drawing conclusions, students will actively look for text evidence in support of learning objectives. Complete skill lessons teach these explicitly, and ample assessment opportunities allow for demonstration of knowledge.

      Craft and Structure

      World History: Patterns of Interaction teaches students how to read social studies-based informational text with particular guidance and practice on understanding historical readings, developing historical perspective, and formulating historical questions. This focus allows students to understand and compare points-of-view, determine bias, and recognize propaganda as they interpret a variety of primary sources.

      Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

      World History: Patterns of Interaction offers students continuous opportunities to access a variety of sources—print, audio, visual, interactive media, and video—and in turn to analyze and assess them in 21st-century applications. Students can demonstrate their understanding through projects, proposals, presentations, and more.

      Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

      World History: Patterns of Interaction offers students a wealth of text genres in the Student Editions, related support material both in print and online, and related small volumes focusing on primary source collections, historical readings, literary collections, and historical literature.

      Writing History/Social Sciences

      Text Types and Purposes

      World History: Patterns of Interaction is committed to the student writing process with skills and lessons to support them every step of the way with ample and varied writing can be found in formative assessment, informal assessment, formal assessment, and portfolio opportunities.

      Production and Distribution of Writing

      Whether in print or online, World History: Patterns of Interaction offers a variety of writing opportunities and platforms for students to research and publish their writing.

      Research to Build and Present Knowledge

      World History: Patterns of Interaction teaches students how to analyze bias, determine point-of-view, and recognize propaganda, along with interpret print, visual, and Internet source material. The depth and variety of skills culminates in students critically reading and responding to text and supporting their written argument with critical analysis and text evidence.

      Range of Writing

      World History: Patterns of Interaction offers a variety of writing projects—both short term and long term—to support the different needs of today’s classrooms and schedules. Students demonstrate their knowledge for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

    • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework

      C3 Framework Whitepaper

      Research shows us that fewer and fewer students are receiving a high quality social studies education, despite the central role of social studies in preparing them for the responsibilities of citizenship.

      The new College, Career, and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards was developed with this in mind, and changes the focus of how social studies is taught in the classroom.

      The result of a three year state-led collaborative effort, the C3 Framework has been developed to enhance the rigor of the social studies disciplines, while building the critical thinking, problem solving, and participatory skills necessary for students to become engaged citizens. The C3 Framework also serves to align academic programs to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies.

      To find out more information about what the C3 Framework means for you in your classroom, download a free whitepaper that describes why the C3 Framework is necessary, what the guiding principles are, and how it is organized to engage students in active inquiry.

      C3 Framework Whitepaper (449 KB)

      For more information, or to download a complete copy of the C3 Framework, visit www.socialstudies.org/c3

    • Correlations

      Common Core Correlations

      Full Survey Common Core State Standards, Literacy in History/Social Studies, Grades 9–10 (553 KB)

      Full Survey Common Core State Standards, Literacy in History/Social Studies, Grades 11–12 (618 KB)

      Modern World History Common Core State Standards, Literacy in History/Social Studies, Grades 9–10 (650 KB)

      Modern World History Common Core State Standards, Literacy in History/Social Studies, Grades 11–12 (645 KB)

      Ancient World History Common Core State Standards, Literacy in History/Social Studies, Grades 9–10 (1.2 MB)

      Ancient World History Common Core State Standards, Literacy in History/Social Studies, Grades 11–12 (1.3 MB)

      C3 Framework Sample Correlation

      C3 Framework Sample Correlation (969 KB)

      		  
    • Scope and Sequence

      Preview the skills taught throughout each unit and chapter.

      Grades K–12 (7.9MB)

      Grades 6–12 (5.8MB)

    • Consultants

      Meet the team that has made World History: Patterns of Interaction one of the best-selling high school programs on the market.

      Roger Beck, Ph.D. - Senior Consultant

      Roger B. Beck is distinguished professor of African, World, and 20th-century World History at Eastern Illinois University. Having taught at international schools in Tokyo, Paris, and London, Beck also supervised student teachers and taught social studies methods at Eastern Illinois for many years. In addition to a long teaching career at high school, college, and graduate school levels, Beck has published extensively, including authoring The History of South Africa and coauthoring the college world history text A History of World Societies. He has also published more than 100 book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews. He is a recipient of two Fulbright fellowships, and is an active member of the African Studies Association and the World History Association.

      Linda Black, B.A., M.Ed. - Senior Consultant

      Linda Black teaches world history at Cypress Falls High School in Houston, Texas, and has had a distinguished career in education as a teacher of world history, American history, and Texas history. In 1993–1994 Black was named an outstanding secondary social studies teacher in the United States by the National Council for the Social Studies. In 1996 she was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Council for the Social Studies. She is an active member of that council, the Texas Council for the Social Studies, and the World History Association. She served on the College Board Test Development for Advanced Placement* World History from 1995 to 2003.

      Larry S. Krieger, B.A., M.A., M.A.T. - Senior Consultant

      Larry S. Krieger is the social studies supervisor for Grades K–12 in Montgomery Township Public Schools in New Jersey. For 26 years he has been a world history teacher in public schools. He has also introduced many innovative in service programs, such as “Putting the Story Back in History,” and has coauthored several successful history textbooks. Krieger earned his B.A. and M.A.T. from University of North Carolina and his M.A. from Wake Forest University.

      Phillip C. Naylor, Ph.D. - Senior Consultant

      Phillip C. Naylor is an associate professor of history at Marquette University and teaches European, North African, and West Asian undergraduate and graduate courses. He was the director of the Western Civilization program for nine years where he inaugurated a “transcultural approach” to the teaching of the traditional survey. He has authored France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation, coauthored The Historical Dictionary of Algeria, and coedited State and Society in Algeria. He has published numerous articles, papers, and reviews, and produced CD-ROM projects. In 1996 Naylor received the Reverend John P. Raynor, S.J., Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence at Marquette University. In 1992 he received the Edward G. Roddy Teaching Award at Merrimack College.

      Dahia Ibo Shabaka, B.A., M.A., Ed.S. - Senior Consultant

      Dahia Ibo Shabaka is the director of Social Studies and African-Centered Education in the Detroit Public Schools system. She has an extensive educational and scholarly background in the disciplines of history, political science, economics, law, and reading, and in secondary education, curriculum development, and school administration and supervision. Shabaka has been a teacher, a curriculum coordinator, and a supervisor of social studies in the Detroit Secondary Schools. In 1991 she was named social studies educator of the year by the Michigan Council for the Social Studies. Shabaka is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Israel and has served as an executive board member of the National Social Studies Supervisors Association.

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    • Research: Evidence & Efficacy

      Holt McDougal World History: Patterns of Interaction iBooks Textbooks Impact Study (2013)

      Tracks high school students' achievement in world history over the course of a semester using the iBooks Textbook version of World History: Patterns of Interaction.

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  • Features

    Meeting the needs of all learners is no easy task. This is why Houghton Mifflin Harcourt created World History: Patterns of Interaction. Designed to engage students with the narrative while integrating rich multimedia assets, the program brings content to life for students and enriches their understanding.

    Teacher and student resources are available in print, online, and via mobile, providing the kind of anytime, anywhere access to resources that today’s learning environment demands. With leading-edge digital tools, World History: Patterns of Interaction helps students connect to the content like never before.

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    • Reading Support and Accessibility

      In World History: Patterns of Interaction, reading support works seamlessly with the content, preparing students to learn with focused success.

      Main Idea and Why It Matters Now

      Main Idea and Why It Matters Now at the section opener establish the purpose for reading and provide relevance.

      Inner-column Reading

      Inner-column reading prompts support comprehension, background knowledge, and academic vocabulary at point-of-use.

      Section Assessments

      Section Assessments provide scaffolded questions based on Bloom's taxonomy.

      Reading Social Studies

      Reading Social Studies, by Kylene Beers helps students in every social studies course develop content-area reading skills. It includes reading-skill practice, think-aloud strategies, graphic organizers, and practice skill lessons for world history, geography, U.S. history, and civics.

      Guided Reading Workbook

      Guided Reading Workbook (English and Spanish/English) helps all students understand and master the content using a visual summary and critical thinking questions to organize chapter content; section-by-section note-taking to master main ideas; and challenge activities to extend concept learning.

      Reading Toolkit for Social Studies

      Reading Toolkit for Social Studies: World History provides student-centered research-based reading support with lesson plans correlated to before, during, and after reading strategies; overhead transparencies; and vocabulary practice.

    • Comprehensive Skill Development

      World History: Patterns of Interaction develops students' comprehension skills, critical thinking skills, and analysis skills throughout the text.

      Interact with History

      Interact with History begins each chapter to get students thinking and talking about issues in the context of historical settings.

      Analyzing Key Concepts

      Analyzing Key Concepts focus on the impact of important ideas in world history.

      Social History

      Social History focus on daily lives of people throughout the ages and personalizes history for students.

      History in Depth

      History in Depth features take a deeper look at specific events in world history.

      History Makers

      History Makers take a closer look at important people that have made a significant impact in world history.

      Global Impact and Global Patterns

      Global Impact and Global Patterns make world history topics and events relevant to today's students.

      Connect to Today

      Connect to Today features make history relevant for students by connecting them with the past.

      Science and Technology

      Science and Technology features connect students to other subject areas so they see how history connects to them.

      Thinking About Content Reading

      Thinking About Content Reading helps students develop content-area reading skills in every social studies course using the think-aloud strategy and graphic organizers.

      Interactive Skills Tutor CD-ROM

      Interactive Skills Tutor CD-ROM guides students as they learn social studies skills presented in the program. Each skill is introduced, practiced through interactive student activities, and then assessed for student mastery.

    • Differentiated Instruction

      World History: Patterns of Interaction provides a variety of teaching strategies and activities designed to reach all learners. The Teacher's Edition and ancillary materials fully support differentiated instruction.

      The Differentiated Instruction Planning Guide

      The Differentiated Instruction Planning Guide at the beginning of each chapter targets program resources to address the needs of struggling readers, English language learners, and gifted and talented students.

      Teacher's Edition

      The Teacher's Edition provides point-of-use Differentiating Instruction activities for English language learners, special education students, learners having difficulty with the content, and advanced learners.

      Guided Reading Workbook

      Guided Reading Workbook (English and Spanish/English) helps all students understand and master the content using a visual summary and critical thinking questions to organize chapter content; section-by-section note-taking to master main ideas; and challenge activities to extend concept learning.

      Multi-language Glossary

      The Multi-language Glossary includes important terms and brief definitions in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Khmer, Laotian, Haitian Creole, Russian, and Portuguese.

      Reading Toolkit for Social Studies

      Reading Toolkit for Social Studies: World History provides student-centered research-based reading support with lesson plans correlated to before, during, and after reading strategies; overhead transparencies; and vocabulary practice.

      Modified Lesson Plans for English Learners

      The Modified Lesson Plans for English Learners include section-by-section lesson plans with teaching tips on adapting lessons and activities.

      English Language Learner Strategies and Activities

      English Language Learner Strategies and Activities by Julie Chan provides support for social studies teachers who have English language learners in their classrooms. The activities and strategies have been designed to be used with English language learners at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced proficiency levels. It includes Skill Building Activities, Social Studies Theme Activities, and Graphic Organizers.

    • Document-Based Instruction

      What does it mean to read like a historian? World History: Patterns of Interaction teaches students to analyze written documents, photographs, political cartoons, documents, art, and more. By engaging students, the program motivates them to learn with a variety of primary sources to bring history to life.

      Analyzing Primary Sources

      Analyzing Primary Sources encourages students to study primary source documents and think critically to answer the document-based questions.

      History Through Art

      History through Art and Analyzing Art, Artifacts, Architecture, Political Cartoons, and Photographs are other special features that look at cultural and societal demonstrations throughout world history.

      Comparing and Contrasting

      Comparing and Contrasting, at the end of each unit, helps students see the impact of historical events on today's world with the use of graphic organizers, primary and secondary sources, and critical thinking applications.

      Different Perspectives: Using Primary and Secondary Sources

      Different Perspectives: Using Primary and Secondary Sources exposes students to different perspectives through source material.

      Experiencing World History and Geography

      Experiencing World History and Geography involves students in their learning with interactive, collaborative activities featuring biographies, literature selections, historic documents, and map transparencies.

      Primary Source Activity Kit

      The Primary Source Activity Kit is a compilation of primary and secondary sources designed to provide students with opportunities to examine historical, geographical, and government records; to analyze a variety of points-of-view; and to use critical thinking strategies to interpret historical documents.

      This engaging activity kit includes:

      • Laminated placards featuring the documents and accompanying activities
      • Primary and secondary source documents that cover United States history, world history, geography, and civics and government
      • Teacher's Guide with lesson plans and answer keys

      Reading Like a Historian Toolkit

      Reading Like a Historian: World History Toolkit teaches students to think critically and analyze primary and secondary sources in a variety of formats. Students learn questioning strategies that help them dig into history to create a richer understanding of the past. The toolkit includes professional essays, teaching strategies, and collections of primary sources, transparencies, and online presentation resources.

      Document-based Questions

      Document-based Questions Strategies and Practice offers students effective strategies and tests such as constructed response, extended response, and multiple-choice questions similar to the items found on state and national exams.

      Library of Primary Sources CD-ROM

      Library of Primary Sources CD-ROM includes 140 famous documents, speeches, letters, personal accounts, and literary excerpts.

    • Interactive Online Editions

      When is a book not a book? When it's an Online Edition! Our online programs contain the same Student Edition that you find in print, but with a host of additional resources and features.

      TextHelp

      TextHelp is a text-to-speech feature that allows for a section of the text to be read aloud at either slow, medium, or fast speeds. Student can also select a word to be translated into Spanish.

      Multimedia Connections

      Multimedia Connections, developed in partnership with HISTORY®, provide in-depth coverage of key concepts and people brought to life in the Online Edition with interactive features, primary source documents, and engaging

      HISTORY® Videos

      High-quality bellringer HISTORY® videos are included with each chapter opener and indicated at point-of-use with various biographies and features. Where applicable, we've included links to the full-length videos as well.

      Essential Question Podcasts

      The Essential Question at the beginning of each chapter engages students by connecting people, places, and events and by setting a main purpose for reading. World History: Patterns of Interaction takes it one step further with Essential Question Podcasts that go into greater detail, providing additional support for all learners and continuing to set them up for success.

      Current Events Website

      hmcurrentevents.com enriches your classroom with subject-specific information from world history, world geography, American history, economics, psychology, sociology, civics, government, and African American history. It also spotlights today's headlines with blogs, quizzes, activities, and web links.

      Additional Student Resources

      Students find chapter and section resources here, including reading support, enrichment activities, skill development activities, and section and chapter review assessment.

      Additional Teacher Resources

      Everything teachers need to plan, present, and assess is available online through the Teacher Resources section of the Online Edition, as well as the Teacher One Stop™. Teachers will find the Interactive Teacher's Edition, ExamView® Test Generator, enrichment activities, assessments, answer keys, and much more.

      For a free 120-day preview of the Student and Teacher Online Editions, please contact your Account Executive.

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    • Available Digital Formats
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      Visually engaging Multi-touch textbooks for iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch® allow today's digital learners to truly interact with content. The rich, magazine-style design includes embedded interactive features to maximize learning engagement and promote higher order thinking skills. Embedded chapter videos, multimedia interactive features, easy-to-use interface, and interactive section quizzes are just a few of the features that keep students engaged.

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    • Trade Libraries

      Trade Libraries

      Award-winning titles for content-area reading!

      These social studies trade book libraries provide engaging, award-winning trade books to help students build content-area reading skills and learn more about key social studies topics. Use them to introduce content-area concepts, for additional background, or for independent reading.

      Recommended by the National Council of Social Studies

      Premier Collections include selected popular, award-winning, and classic titles that endure year after year, such as Caldecott® Honor books, Newbery® winners, and other best-selling classics like Johnny Tremain, Jubilee, and Castle.

      NCSS Recommended Collections include notable social studies trade books for young people as selected by the Book Review Committee of the National Council for Social Studies.

      Multicultural Collections highlight the diversity of the American experience through the stories of individuals. Through these collections, students will learn about the rich and diverse experiences of African Americans, Latinos, women, and others, and gain insight into the cultures from which the authors came.

      Curriculum Collections supplement common courses in secondary social studies with engaging trade titles that bring social studies to life. Course collections include U.S. history, world history, and world regions/world geography.

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  • Resources

    Explore Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s social studies resources that further develop students’ comprehension skills.

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt & HISTORY® Partnership Website

    Updated monthly, you will find valuable resources you can incorporate into your classroom, such as teacher’s guides to relevant HISTORY® show airings and related links. Also, you can explore all of the products and sponsorships that link HMH & HISTORY® together, including the brand new Custom Solutions service. Come here often to take advantage of what this site has to offer.

    Current Events Website

    hmcurrentevents.com enriches your classroom with subject-specific information from world history, world geography, American history, economics, psychology, sociology, civics, government, and African American history. It also spotlights today’s headlines with blogs, quizzes, activities, and web links.

    HISTORY® and related logos are the property of A&E Television Networks (AETN).

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    We offer teachers and instructional leaders a full suite of learning and support to deepen their mastery and hone their teaching skills throughout the school year.

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