The following films might be shown this year in order to support and enhance curriculum. All films are at or below the rating of PG-13.
Purdue Owl Writing Lab
Grammarly
Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum 2
National Treasure
American Journey Textbook (Glencoe & McGraw Hill)
Library of Congress
TurnItIn
Noodle Tools
150+ Other Words to Use Instead of “Very”
Articles on the Maya, Aztec, and Inca
Sir Francis Drake’s Maps - West Indian Voyage
Newsela Articles on Early Explorers
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel - Part II
America Unearthed: New Clues to the Lost Colony of Roanoke (documentary)
Newsela: Jamestown Archeology
Primary Sources (Jamestown)
Nightmare in Jamestown (documentary)
The Mayflower Compact
Salem Witch Trials (background reading)
Salem Witch Trials Museum, MA
Hey King: Get off Our Backs - iCivics
Rebels with a Cause
The Patriot (2000- edited by CleanFilms.com)
The Constitution
Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer (YouTube)
iCivics articles - Wanted: A Just Right Government, Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and Judicial Branch
iCivics: Win the White House
I’m Just a Bill - SchoolHouse Rock
Race to Ratify -iCivics
The Whiskey Rebellion (article)
Excerpts from Washington’s letters to Hamilton and Jefferson
Hamilton and Jefferson - The Men and Their Philosophies (article)
John Adams (2008)
Lewis & Clark (1997)
The Great Journey West (2002)
Thomas Jefferson (1997)
The War of 1812 (2005)
The Star Spangled Banner
Mankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 10: “Revolutions” (2012)
Alamo (2004)
The Expanding American Republic and the War of 1812 - Newsela
The Missouri Compromise and Slavery in the Western U.S. - Newsela
“The Collapse of Brotherly Love” from Reasoning with Democratic Values
One Hundred Years Hence (The Hutchinson Family Singers)
African American and Native American Resistance - Newsela
Excerpts on the War with Mexico
Primary Source American Progress, John Gast
America: This Story of Us (2010)
Abraham Lincoln: Great or Reluctant Emancipator (article)
Primary source excerpts from Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Civil War - Animated Map (Battlefields.org)
Blue or Gray:A Family Divided by the Civil War (National Geographic, 2003)
Unchained Memories (2003)
America: This Story of Us (2010)
Glory (1989- edited by CleanFilms.com)
The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007)
America: The Story of Us
History Channel’s - The Presidents