Teacher routine
Five-day chronological sprint
Run each day as: 5-minute warmup, 22-minute board sprint, 10-minute correction pass, 5-minute exit ticket. Keep score visible, but grade the correction sheet — not the game result. Each day is one era of the Global II arc, so by Friday students have swept 1750 to the present.
Day 1c. 1750–1850Framework 10.2
Enlightenment & Atlantic Revolutions
Launch the Enlightenment/Revolutions board as teams. Pause after every missed 300+ clue and have students write the link between an Enlightenment idea and the revolution it fueled.
| Teacher move | Student output |
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| Circle one missed clue on Locke, Montesquieu, or Rousseau and name the right it inspired. | One correction sentence connecting the thinker to the French, Haitian, or Latin American revolution. |
| End with a compare prompt: which revolution best delivered Enlightenment ideals? | Exit ticket naming one success and one limit of that revolution. |
Day 2c. 1750–1914Framework 10.3–10.4
Industrialization & Imperialism
Run the Industrialization & Imperialism board. Require a cause-or-effect tag before each answer: students must say whether the clue is a driver of industry/empire or a result of it.
| Teacher move | Student output |
|---|
| After each missed clue (factory system, Berlin Conference, British Raj, Opium Wars, Meiji Japan), ask: cause or consequence of industrialization? | Two-column chart: industrial drivers vs. imperial results. |
| Close by connecting one to the other: how did industrial need push New Imperialism? | Exit ticket: one industrial cause → one imperial effect, in a sentence. |
Day 31914–1924Framework 10.5
Global Conflict I — World War I & Revolution
Use the WWI board for a cause-and-consequence day. Stop after each 400/500 clue and have students sort it into a MAIN cause (militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism) or a consequence.
| Teacher move | Student output |
|---|
| Tag each missed clue as a MAIN cause, a feature of total war, or a result (Versailles, Russian Revolution). | Four-bucket MAIN-cause chart plus a short consequence list. |
| End on the Russian Revolution: why did war turn into Bolshevik revolution? | Exit ticket linking wartime collapse to Lenin’s rise in one sentence. |
Day 41919–1945Framework 10.5 & 10.10
Interwar, World War II & the Holocaust
Run the interwar/WWII board in pairs — one answers, one records the correction, switch each category. Center the human-rights lens (Framework 10.10) when the Holocaust comes up.
| Teacher move | Student output |
|---|
| Group missed clues by regime: Stalin’s USSR, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy. | Three-column compare chart: how each totalitarian state took and kept power. |
| Close on human rights: name the violation and the response (or lack of one). | Exit ticket: one Holocaust-era human-rights violation and one lesson for today. |
Day 51945–presentFramework 10.6–10.9
Cold War, Decolonization & Globalization
Use the Cold War & Globalization board as the cumulative bridge. Let students choose categories, but require a written justification for every high-value clue.
| Teacher move | Student output |
|---|
| Sort missed clues into Cold War (containment, proxy wars), decolonization (Gandhi/India, African independence), or globalization. | Three-bucket timeline from 1945 to today. |
| Surface remaining weak eras with the cumulative board and ask for a self-review plan. | Personal next-review list: three topics, one action each, before exam day. |
