Mr. Everett

Google Classroom: US1 Per. 1, Per. 3, Per. 4

Course description: How did our nation begin? What have been our greatest triumphs and our darkest moments? How have our rights changed over time? What does it mean to be an American?

This course will place students in the center of their country’s growth with an in-depth, analysis of American history from the American Revolution to the outbreak of World War 2. Students will hear the voices of enslaved African Americans demanding freedom, travel across the Oregon Trail in search of a new beginning, read immigrant diaries about their hopes in a new land, listen to the speeches of Native American chiefs seeking justice and survival, and see factories and skyscrapers rise transform American cities as workers fight for better wages and working conditions. It will provide students with lessons driven by project based learning and analysis of primary source documents. Using 1:1 technology, students will explore the themes of war, politics, economics, rights, expansion, and culture. Student learning will be measured through document-based question (DBQ) essays, projects, Socratic seminars, and other assessments. The course structure is based on critical thinking, problem-solving scenarios and student-generated debates and discussions.

Google Classroom: WHAM Per. 2 & 5

Course description: What people, events, and issues made the world what it is today? How do we measure progress in the modern age? How has power been used? What ideologies have developed? How has culture changed?

In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation. Students will learn to think like historians and assess historical materials – their relevance to a given historical issue, their reliability, and their importance – and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.