M/J United States History Advanced- 2100020

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2100020 M/J UNITED STATES HISTORY Advanced: Advanced courses offer scaffolded learning opportunities for students to develop the critical skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in a more rigorous and reflective academic setting. Students are empowered to perform at higher levels as they engage in the following: analyzing historical documents and supplementary readings, working in the context of thematically categorized information, becoming proficient in note-taking, participating in Socratic seminars/discussions, emphasizing free-response and document-based writing, contrasting opposing viewpoints, solving problems, etc. Students will develop and demonstrate their skills through participation in a capstone and/or extended research-based paper/project (e.g., history fair, participatory citizenship project, mock congressional hearing, projects for competitive evaluation, investment portfolio contests, or other teacher-directed projects).

First Nine Weeks

  • Class introduction, orientation and procedures

  • Roots of September 11th

  • Constitution Day

  • Celebrate Freedom Week (last full week in September)

  • Organizing Principle 1: Students will be introduced to research and inquiry skills to analyze American History using primary and secondary sources.

  • Organizing Principle 2: Students will understand the ways that economic, political, cultural, and religious competition between the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch shaped colonial America.

  • Organizing Principle 3: Students will understand policies from British rule negatively affected the lives of the colonists while uniting them at the same time.

    • DBQ and Historical Essay Introduction and Practice

    • Introduction: History Fair

Second Nine Weeks

  • DBQ and Historical Essay Introduction and Practice

  • Organizing Principle 4: Students will understand the key influences that led to the Revolutionary War, the writing of the Declaration of Independence, and the founding principles of our nation.

  • Organizing Principle 5: Students will understand the causes, course, and consequences of the founding principles of our nation.

  • Organizing Principle 6: Students will participate in developing History Fair projects.

Third Nine Weeks

  • DBQ and Historical Essay Practice

  • Organizing Principle 7: Students will understand the significant impact that George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson had in founding the principles and laws of our nation.

  • Organizing Principle 8: Students will understand the variety of ways Andrew Jackson influenced our nation during westward expansion.

  • Organizing Principle 9: Students will understand why western expansion occurred and the impact it had on the United States as a whole.

  • Organizing Principle 10: Students will understand the domestic and international causes, course, and consequence of westward expansion.

Fourth Nine Week

  • Organizing Principle 11: Students will understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.

  • Organizing Principle 12: Reconstruction, Students will understand the policies, practices, and consequences of Reconstruction.

Useful websites:

The following is a suggested pacing is a guide for the year. Please see your child's assignment chart for the most accurate reflection of the day's assignments.

Required Class Materials:

Discovery Education, Social Studies Techbook, World History Florida

Supplies needed:

    • Loose leaf notebook paper

    • Pen(s) – blue or black ONLY

    • Pencil(s)- #2

    • Folder with 3 prongs and 2 pockets- orange

    • Spiral notebook (2- 70 page or 1- 3 or 5 subject) In lieu of a folder & spiral you may use a binder with tabs-must be designated for US History.

    • Extras that are not required but will be used in the classroom: glue, ruler, colored pencils/ markers

Grade Breakdown in Focus:

  • 95%= Summative- to include but not limited to: individual standards tests and to also include Projects/Performance projects such as History Fair project and Posters.

  • 5%= Formative- to include but not limited to: Classwork- Document Based Questions, written responses, KIM Charts - (vocabulary chart), lesson/section/section work, reading passages, variety of graphic organizers

  • 0%= Diagnostic/Documentation