Welcome to our class website.
This page serves as a digital syllabus for parents and students and does not contain any coursework.
All student coursework will be found on our Google Classroom page.
Below you will find
Our Course Description
Course Objectives
Periods and Topics Covered
Please contact me anytime you have questions or concerns.
Dan Lamping / LampingD@msdr9.org
This introductory United States History course covers the periods of American history from Reconstruction to the Modern Era. U.S. History examines the ever-evolving relationships among the government, the people, and the economy, as well as analyzing the changing views of citizenship. Students in this course will also evaluate the role of the United States in globalization. United States History asks students to evaluate historical perspectives through the analysis of historical documents for the purpose of finding, creating, writing and giving evidence to defend an argument.
The student will read, discuss, and analyze key documents from U.S. History.
The student will create written arguments with contextual support and evidence on historical issues, regularly throughout the course.
The student will research and evaluate historical information to support arguments both oral and written.
The student will interpret economic data and draw parallels with historical contexts.
The student will reflect on, and define the changing nature of citizenship and government as America progresses through history.
The student will explain how US foreign policy reacts to and influences world events.
Concepts in history and historical thinking skills
Foundations in U.S. government
Reconstruction
Manifest Destiny and Conquering of the West
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
U.S. Imperialism
The Great Depression
Warfare in the 20th Century
World War I
World War II
Cold War
Korean War
Vietnam War
Wars in the Middle East
Social Movements of the 20th Century
Contemporary America
Students will rarely be assigned homework, though they will routinely have coursework with time to work in class. What doesn't get finished in class should be completed during Panther Prep, AT (Academic Time) or at home.
Anything that goes into the grade book for this class should be seen as an assessment of student knowledge, skills, or learning.
Students who want to be successful should complete all of the coursework and prepare for assessments.
Due dates will be provided for each assignment and assessment. Students are expected to meet deadlines in order to keep up with the pace that the class is moving. That said, not all learners learn at the same pace and sometimes students may need additional time to work through course material, provided they are actually working and putting in effort. Additionally, students often have multiple, competing responsibilities and due dates. As a way of teaching time management and the importance of prioritizing tasks, students are empowered to to decide which tasks take precedence provided they communicate ahead of time and make productive use of classtime. Flexibility is allowed for those students who demonstrate a sincere effort towards completing their coursework in a timely manner.
This doesn't mean students can blow off coursework and expect to do well.
For all assessments students may submit work late without a grade deduction if they are making productive use of classtime. The exception to this is when there is some time sensitive component to the assignment, where students are part of a group or are scheduled to present to the class. In these circumstances, if getting work done on time is essential to the task, students may receive a reduction in grade, which will be clearly communicated in the grade book.
Many class assignments and assessments will be required to be completed in class in order to discourage academic dishonesty and student use of AI to complete their coursework.
Because learning is a process and because we can often learn from assessments, students will be allowed to revise and / or re-do all assessments for full-credit, provided the initial attempt was their own original work, though there will usually be some expectation of remediation before students can resubmit work to be regraded, under these criteria:
There will always be an expectation of remediation before being allowed to re-do as assessment. Remediation may include meeting with the teacher during class time or Academic Time (AT1 or AT2) or may include the student applying teacher feedback to returned work as part of the revision process.
The assessment format or "test" will sometimes be different than the original assessment.
Options for re-doing assessments may not always be immediate and may come closer to the end of the semester to allow students the dual opportunity of raising their grade and to better prepare for the final exam.
Use of AI to complete coursework, copying another student's work, and / or pasting material from other sources and submitting it as the original work of the student may result in a failing grade for the assignment / assessment.