WORLD HISTORY-A 25.26 2nd Tri

Mr. Crueger

Teacher Email:
brett.crueger@rentonschools.us
bcrueger@g.rentonschools.us
Conference & Planning Period: 2nd Period

Course Information

World History A covers world history from ~1450-1900. This course is taken before World History B, which is world history from 1900-present We will see how the world in 1450 was still comprised of land based empires, but was becoming more connected. Some empires or kingdoms we will study include Ming and Qing China, Mughal India, the Ottomans, and Mali. As the course continues, we look at what happens when the world becomes more connected across oceans, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Columbian Exchange, and Triangular Trade. We will then see how transoceanic connections brought Enlightenment ideas around the world and fomented revolution, including the Haitian and American revolutions. The course ends with a look at another type of revolution, The Industrial Revolution. We will learn why it started where it did and how it spread across the world. We will learn about how the Industrial Revolution impacted people across the world and how it was connected to global economic systems.

Course Objectives:

Grading Scale:

We are using this grading scale for the 2025-26 school year:

94-100%	A	80-83.99	B-	64-69.99	D+
90-93.99	A-	77-79.99	C+	60-63.99	D
87-89.99	B+	74-76.99	C	0-59.99	F
84-86.99%	B	70-73.99	C-

Academic Honesty Policy

Academic Dishonesty Policy and Consequences: Academic honesty is incredibly important to me and is something myself and Hazen High School take very seriously. It is important to recognize whose ideas, words, or quotes you are using in your work if they are not your own. Citing your sources and giving credit to others is a skill you will use throughout your life in whatever profession you choose to pursue.

The Hazen Honor Code defines cheating as “[t]he giving or receiving of unauthorized assistance resulting in an unfair advantage in academic work. Examples of cheating include (but are not limited to): copying another student’s work, allowing copying of one’s own work, passing assessment answers or other advantageous information from one class period to another, and the unauthorized use of study aids, books, electronic devices, online programs, or artificial intelligence.”

The Hazen Honor Code define plagiarism as “[t]he act of presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without consent of the originator of the work. This includes the misuse of published material, electronic material, responses generated by artificial intelligence, and/or the work of other students or adults. This also includes, but is not limited to, wording, syntax (sentence structure), ideas and the ordering of those ideas, research findings, evidence selection, illustrations, and creative work.” In other words, plagiarism is the taking of language, ideas, or thoughts from another person or source and presenting them as original work.

Copying part of OR an entire homework assignment, classwork assignment, or any other piece of work for this class (other than in-class lecture notes) is considered plagiarism. All work is individual work unless otherwise specified. For all assignments, your answers need to be in your own words. Any use of AI tools (except for Grammarly) is considered academic dishonesty.

Consequences of violating the Hazen Honor Code

**Please note: All offenses are cumulative over high school career**

For all offenses: Teacher completes incident form and notifies student’s family; Administrator records violation in student’s online file.
First Offense	Student-teacher conference. If an assignment, work in violation of the honor code must be redone and will receive half credit. If it was an assessment, the student will receive a zero(0).
Second Offense	Student-teacher conference, all work in violation of the honor code receives a zero(0).
Third Offense	Student-administrator conference, academic contract, all work in violation of the honor code receives a zero(0)0.
All Subsequent Offenses	Student-parent-administrator conference, all work in violation of the honor code receives a 0, and additional progressive discipline as determined by administrator.

Plagiarism, or any other form of cheating, will result in severe consequences as listed below. These consequences can also be found in the Hazen Honor Code.

These consequences are cumulative over your high school career, and do not reset to “0” at any point.

If you need support on how to properly cite your sources, message me in Canvas or send me an email and I would be happy to help!

Artificial Intelligence Policies:

It is not allowed to use generative AI tools in this class in any way. Every element of all work including but not limited to brainstorms, rough drafts, reflections, assignments, final products, and projects, that is submitted by a student must be fully created by that student. The use of generative AI tools for any part of any work is considered plagiarism and / or cheating.

The only exception to this is using Grammarly. However, make sure that any changes you make to your work that are recommended by Grammarly do not change your ideas. Grammarly should be used as an editing tool only to adjust things such as spelling and grammar.

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