US History
Current unit learning targets:
I can identify post-WWII economic transformations and assess their impact on America.
I can define the Cold War and describe our involvement, including the arms race, Korea and Vietnam.
I can describe and evaluate America’s role in the post-Cold War world, including the War on Terrorism.
This course prepares students to take the U.S. Constitution Test. Students learn about the government, including the three branches. Citizen rights and responsibilities are reviewed and an awareness of both civil and criminal law are taught. Students will use current events as a springboard for discussion of these topics. In addition, students study American History from the industrial revolution to the present. Societal relationships, the criminal justice system, due process of the law, and basic civil rights are also included in the curriculum.
Units that have been covered are in red.
US History
1st semester
Unit 1 United States Constitution Test
Unit 2 Toward Civil War
Chapter 16 Lesson 1 The Search for Compromise.
Chapter 16 Lesson 2 Challenges to Slavery.
Chapter 16 Lesson 3 Secession and War
Unit 3 The Civil War
Chapter 17 Lesson 1 The Two Sides.
Chapter 17 Lesson 2 Early Years of the War.
Chapter 17 Lesson 3 Life During the Civil War.
Chapter 17 Lesson 4 The Strain of War.
Chapter 17 Lesson 5 The War's Final Stages.
GLORY
Unit 4 The Reconstruction Era
Chapter 18 Lesson 1 Planning Reconstruction.
Chapter 18 Lesson 2 The Radicals Take Control.
Chapter 18 Lesson 3 The South During Reconstruction.
Chapter 18 Lesson 4 The Post-Reconstruction Era
Unit 5 The Industrial Age
Chapter 20 Lesson 1 Railroads Lead the Way.
Chapter 20 Lesson 2 Inventions Change Society.
Chapter 20 Lesson 3 An Age of Big Business.
Chapter 20 Lesson 4 Workers in the Industrial Age.
Unit 6 An Urban Society
Chapter 21 Lesson 1 The New Immigrants.
Chapter 21 Lesson 2 Moving to the City.
Chapter 21 Lesson 3 A Changing Culture.
GANGS OF NEW YORK
Unit 7 The Progressive Era
Chapter 22 Lesson 1 The Movement Begins.
Chapter 22 Lesson 2 Women and Progressives.
Chapter 22 Lesson 3 Progressive Era.
Chapter 22 Lesson 4 Excluded from Reform.
Unit 8 Rise to World Power
Chapter 23 Lesson 1 Seeking New Frontiers.
Chapter 23 Lesson 2 Imperialism in the Pacific.
Chapter 23 Lesson 3 War With Spain.
Chapter 23 Lesson 4 Latin American Policies.
2nd semester
Unit 9 World War I
Chapter 24 Lesson 1 War with Europe.
Chapter 24 Lesson 2 America's Road to War.
Chapter 24 Lesson 3 American's Join the Allies.
Chapter 24 Lesson 4 The War at Home.
Chapter 24 Lesson 5 Searching for Peace.
Warhorse
Unit 10 The Depression and the New Deal
Chapter 26 Lesson 1 The Great Depression.
Chapter 26 Lesson 2 The New Deal.
Chapter 26 Lesson 3 Living Through the Depression.
Chapter 26 Lesson 4 Effects of the New Deal.
Unit 11 America and World War II
Chapter 27 Lesson 1 War Clouds Gather.
Chapter 27 Lesson 2 World War II Begins.
Chapter 27 Lesson 3 On the Home Front.
Chapter 27 Lesson 4 The European Theatre of War.
Chapter 27 Lesson 5 The War in the Pacific.
Red Tails/Defiance/Saving Private Ryan
5 paragraph movie essay
Unit 12 Cold War Era
Chapter 28 Lesson 1 Roots of the Cold War.
Chapter 28 Lesson 2 Early Cold War Politics.
Chapter 28 Lesson 3 Korean War.
Chapter 28 Lesson 4 Life in the 1950's.
Unit 13 Civil Rights Era
Chapter 29 Lesson 1 The Civil Rights Movement.
Chapter 29 Lesson 2 Kennedy and Johnson.
Chapter 29 Lesson 3 Civil Rights and the 1960's
Chapter 29 Lesson 4 Other Groups Seeking Rights.
Unit 14 Vietnam Era
Chapter 30 Lesson 1 Kennedy's Foreign Policy.
Chapter 30 Lesson 2 The Vietnam War.
Chapter 30 Lesson 3 The Vietnam Years at Home.
Chapter 30 Lesson 4 Vietnam in the Nixon Years.
Guest speaker Vietnam veteran Mr. Ted
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