Grade 9 Humanities

Explore Humanities content aligned with Grade 9 high school curriculum.

6 lessons

Grade 9 Humanities topics

  • Ancient China

    The learner explains the Mandate of Heaven, compares the teachings of Confucius, Daoism and Legalism, and explains how the Qin unified China and how the Han empire governed, traded along the Silk Roads and invented…

  • Ancient Greece

    The learner compares Greek city-states, explains Athenian democracy and citizenship, and describes Greek achievements in science, philosophy, theatre and the arts and their influence today.

  • Maya, Aztec and Inca

    The learner describes the Maya, Aztec and Inca states and the diversity of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of present-day Brazil, and their achievements.

  • Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

    The learner explains how the transatlantic slave trade worked, the lives and resistance of enslaved people in the Americas, and how abolition movements ended the trade and slavery.

  • First Civilizations

    The learner explains why the first cities and states arose in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley and early China, and what writing, law, trade and religion meant for them.

  • Novel Study

    The learner tracks character, conflict, setting, symbol and theme across a whole novel, relates it to its context and writes about it.

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