Objectives of this US History class is for students to:
Identify key events, people, and developments in world and/or U.S. history relevant to the grade’s scope (e.g., early modern world, geography, or state history depending on curriculum).
Understand cause-and-effect relationships between historical events.
Recognize how ideas, beliefs, and innovations influenced societies.
Compare and contrast life in different historical periods.
Below are the units and topics we will be studying. Most units have an "end-of-unit" project that will foster a deeper connection to the content for the student.
Unit1- Three Worlds Meet
Unit 2-Colonization
End-of-unit Project: Design a Colony
Unit 3-The American Revolution
End-of-unit Project: Broadsides
Unit 4- The U.S. Constitution
End-of-unit Project:
Unit 5- The Development of Political Institutions and Processes
End-of-unit Project:
*Unit projects are subject to change.