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Week 14 12/1-12/5

Hi people! This week we will wrap up Topic 6: The Great Depression and the New Deal. Our summative assessment is a DBQ essay.
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 6 DBQ Essay
 
Objectives:
  • Students will be able to construct a well-organized 5-paragraph DBQ essay.
  • Understand the key policies and responses of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to the Great Depression (1929–1941).
  • Analyze how the Great Depression and New Deal changed the role of the federal government
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of federal responses to the crisis, using evidence from both primary sources and historical context.
Due:
-Topic 6 DBQ Essay handwritten in class on 12/4 and due Monday 12/8 at the start of class time.
 

Week 13 11/17-11/21

Hi people! This week we will continue Topic 6 The Great Depression and the New Deal. 
 
This week's assignments: 
-Topic 6.4 The New Deal Expands and Its Effects
-Topic 6.5 Culture during the Depression
-Reading #5
 
Objectives:
Topic 6.4 The New Deal Expands and Its Effects
  • Analyze the ways that the New Deal promoted social and economic reform and its long-term effects.
  • Explain how New Deal legislation affected the growth of organized labor. 
  • Evaluate Roosevelt’s plan to increase the number of US Supreme Court justices on the course of the New Deal.
  • Identify the social and political contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and other women involved in New Deal programs. 
  • Explain how the New Deal expanded economic opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities. 
  • Analyze how the New Deal changed the shape of American party politics and lessened ethnic and social divisions with American society.
  • Evaluate the effect of the New Deal on the historical role of the federal government and FDR on the presidency.
Topic 6.5 Culture during the Depression
  • Trace the growth of radio and the movies in the 1930’s and how both mediums reflected the characteristics and issues of their time. 
  • Explain the relationship between the New Deal and the arts.
  • Describe the major themes of literature of the Depression era.
Due Dates:
-Topic 6 assignments (6.1-6.5) due 11/20
-Reading #5 due 11/20
 
Past due but will still accept:
-Topic 5 assignments (5.5-5.7) due 11/6
-Topic 6 Project due 11/6

Week 11 11/3-11/7

Hi people! This week we will continue Topic 5 World War I and the 1920s. 
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 5.5 An Unsettled Society
-Topic 5.6 The Roaring 20s
-Topic 5.7 The Harlem Renaissance
 
Objectives:
Topic 5.5 An Unsettled Society
  • Compare economic and cultural life in rural America to that in urban America.
  • Analyze how foreign events after World War I and nativism contributed to the first Red Scare.
  • Analyze the causes and effects of changes in US immigration policy in the 1920’s.
  • Describe the goals and motives of the KKK in the 1920’s.
  • Analyze the intended and unintended effects of Prohibition.
Topic 5.6 The Roaring 20s
  • Describe how increased leisure time and technological innovations led to a widespread shared popular culture in the 1920’s.
  • Analyze the changing role of women in the 1920’s.
  • Describe how the concept of modernism shown in art and literature reflected postwar disillusionment.
Topic 5.7 The Harlem Renaissance
  • Analyze how the Great Migration and the philosophies of Marcus Garvey affected African Americans in the 1920’s.
  • Trace the development of jazz and its impact on American society and the rest of the world.
  • Discuss the themes explored by writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
Due:
-Topic 5 assignments (5.5-5.7) due 11/7
-Topic 5 Project due 11/6
 
Past due but will still be accepted:
-Topic 5 assignments (5.1-5.4) due 10/29

Week 10 10/27-10/31

Hi people! This week we will continue Topic 5 World War I and the 1920s. 
 
Important: 
I will be attending a conference on Whole Child Education from Tuesday to Thursday this week, and there will be a substitute on these days. Parents, please email me if you have any questions. Students, you may email or Teams chat me if you need anything. Directions for class on Tuesday-Thursday will be clearly explained during class on Monday.
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 5.4 Economy and Government in the 1920s
-Topic 5 Assessment
 
Objectives:
Topic 5.4 Economy and Government in the 1920s
  • Describe the economic problems the US faced after WWI.
  • Explain the economic growth and prosperity of the 1920’s, including how Henry Ford and the automobile industry helped spark the boom.
  • Analyze the consumer revolution and the bull market of the 1920’s.
  • Compare the different effects of the economic boom on urban, suburban, and rural America.
  • Analyze the policies of Presidents Harding and Coolidge encouraged economic growth and prosperity in the 1920’s.
  • Discuss the effects of political scandals, including Teapot Dome, on Harding’s presidency.
  • Explain the role that the US played in the world during the 1920’s.
Topic 5 Assessment 

  • Explain the causes of World War I, including militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism, and describe how these factors contributed to the outbreak of the war in 1914.

  • Analyze the impact of new military technologies and tactics (such as trench warfare, poison gas, tanks, and airplanes) on the experiences of soldiers and the outcomes of major battles.

  • Evaluate the role of the United States in World War I, including the reasons for its entry into the war and its contributions to the Allied victory.

  • Describe the global and domestic consequences of the war, including the collapse of empires, redrawn borders, the rise of new political movements, and debates over America’s role in world affairs.

  • Synthesize historical information creatively by producing an artistic summary that visually represents major events, themes, and impacts of World War I using at least five identifiable components.

  • Demonstrate comprehension and critical thinking about Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Chapter 14 (“War Is the Health of the State”), by answering reading questions in complete sentences that reflect an understanding of the author’s arguments and perspective.

  • Communicate historical understanding through multiple formats—visual art and written analysis—showing both factual knowledge and interpretation of historical meaning.

Due:
-Topic 5 assignments (5.1-5.4) due 10/29
-Topic 5 Assessment due 11/6

Week 9 10/20-10/24

Hi people, welcome back! This week we will start Topic 5: World War I and the 1920s.
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 5.1 America Enters World War I
-Topic 5.2 The Home Front During World War I
-Topic 5.3 The End of World War I
 
Objectives:
Topic 5.1 America Enters World War I
  • Identify the causes of WWI.
  • Analyze the impact of technological innovations in weaponry that resulted in WWI stalemate on the Western Front.
  • Analyze reasons behind isolationism and neutrality in the United States before 1917.
  • Explain why the United States entered the The Causes of World War I conflict on the side of the Allies
  • Analyze the reasons behind isolationism and neutrality in the United States before 1917.
  • Explain why the United States entered the conflict on the side of the Allies.
Topic 5.2 The Home Front During World War I
  • Analyze how the US government mobilized the public to support the war effort. 
  • Describe opposition to WWI and how the federal government responded to it. 
  • Analyze the causes and effects of migration and social changes that occurred during WWI.
Topic 5.3 The End of World War I
  • Understand the contributions of the American Expeditionary Force to the Allied victory in WWI.
  • Describe the issues raised by President Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
  • Analyze the decisions made at the Paris Peace Conference and included in the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Evaluate the pros and cons of US participation in the League of Nations.
  • Explain why the US Senate did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
Due Dates:
-Topic 5 assignments due 10/29
-Topic 5 project due 11/6

Week 8 9/29-10/2

Hi people! This week we will conclude Topic 4: The Progressive Era with one final lesson and then a Political Cartoon Assessment. 
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 4.5 The US Emerges as a World Power
-Topic 4 Political Cartoon Assessment
 
Objectives:
Topic 4.5 The US Emerges as a World Power
  • Analyze how economic concerns influenced the Open Door Policy and US relations with Japan. 
  • Examine what happened to Puerto Rico and Cuba after the Spanish-American War. 
  • Analyze the effects of “Big Stick” diplomacy and “Dollar Diplomacy.” 
  • Compare Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy” with the foreign policies of his predecessors.
Topic 4 Political Cartoon Assessment
  • Identify and explain common techniques used in political cartoons (symbolism, caricature, irony, labeling, exaggeration).
  • Interpret the main message or argument presented in political cartoons related to the Progressive Era.
  • Connect political cartoons to key historical themes.
  • Evaluate whether a cartoon supports or criticizes a particular reform, policy, or historical event.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking by drawing connections between visual sources and broader historical contexts.
  • Construct a well-organized written response that uses evidence from the cartoon and historical knowledge to support an interpretation.
Due:
-Topic 4 assignments (4.1-4.5) due 10/1
-Topic 4 Political Cartoon Assessment due 10/2

Week 7 9/22-9/26

Hi People!  This week we will start a new topic, Topic 4: The Progressive Era. 

This week's assignments:

-Topic 4.1 Progressives Drive Reform

-Topic 4.2 The Striving for Equality

-Topic 4.3 Reforms in the Whitehouse

-Topic 4.4 American Influence and the Spanish-American War

Objectives:

Topic 4.1 Progressives Drive Reform

  • Analyze the role that journalists and novelists played in the Progressive Movement. 
  • Evaluate some of the social reforms that Progressives tackled. 
  • Explain what Progressives hoped to achieve through political reform.

Topic 4.2 Striving for Equality

  • Analyze actions taken by women to address social issues affecting workers and families. 
  • Evaluate the tactics reform leaders used to win passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
  • Analyze Progressives’ attitudes toward minority rights.
  • Describe the political organizations formed by African Americans to promote civil rights. 
  • Examine the actions taken by minority groups to expand their rights.

Topic 4.3 Reforms in the Whitehouse

  • Analyze how Theodore Roosevelt influenced the changing relationship between the federal government and private business. 
  • Explain the impact of Roosevelt’s actions toward managing the environment. Compare Roosevelt’s policies with Taft’s and Wilson’s. 
  • Describe Wilson’s efforts to regulate the economy.
  • Assess the legacy of the Progressive Era.

Topic 4.4 American Influence and the Spanish-American War

  • Identify the key factors that caused Americans to want to take a greater role overseas. 
  • Explain how the US took its first steps toward the position of a world power.
  • Evaluate the acquisition of Hawaii by the US. 
  • Explain the causes of the Spanish-American War. Identify the major battles of the Spanish-American War. 
  • Describe the consequences of the war, including the debate over imperialism.

Due:

-Topic 4 due 10/1

-Political Cartoon assessment due 10/1

Week 6 9/15-9/19

Hi people! This week we will continue Topic 3: Challenges in the Late 1800s. 
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 3.3 Corruption Plagues a Nation
-Topic 3.4 Farm Issues and Populism
-Homework reading #3
-Start Topic 3 essay
 
Objectives:
Topic 3.3 Corruption Plagues a Nation
  • Analyze the issue of corruption in national politics in the 1870s and 1880s. 
  • Discuss civil service reform during the 1870s and 1880s. 
  • Assess the importance of economic issues in the politics of the Gilded Age.
Topic 3.4 Farm Issues and Populism
  • Analyze the problems farmers faced and the groups they formed to address them. 
  • Assess the goals of the Populists and explain why the Populist Party did not last.
 
Due Dates:
-Topic 3 assignments due 9/18
-Homework reading #3 due 9/17
-Topic 3 essay due 9/25
 

Weke 5 9/8-9/12

Hi people! This week we will begin Topic 3: Challenges in the Late 1800s. 
 
This week's assignments:
-Topic 3.1 American Indians Under Pressure
-Topic 3.2 The West is Transformed
-Topic 3.3 Corruption Plagues the Nation
-Turner's Frontier Thesis Debate
 
Objectives:
Topic 3.1 American Indians Under Pressure
  • Compare the ways Native Americans and white settlers viewed and used the land. 
  • Describe the conflicts between white settlers and Indians. 
  • Evaluate the impact of the Indian Wars.
Topic 3.2 The West is Transformed
  • Analyze the impact of mining and railroads on the settlement of the West. 
  • Explain the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the settlement of the Great Plains. 
  • Analyze the treatment of Chinese immigrants and Mexican Immigrants in the West. 
  • Discuss the ways various groups used land in the West and conflicts among them.
Topic 3.3 Corruption Plagues the Nation
  • Analyze the issue of corruption in national politics in the 1870s and 1880s. 
  • Discuss civil service reform during the 1870s and 1880s. 
  • Assess the importance of economic issues in the politics of the Gilded Age.
Due:
-Topic 3 assignments due 9/17
-Homework reading #3 9/16
-Topic 3 essay due 9/22

Week 4 9/2-9/5

Hi people! This week we will wrap up Topic 2: Industry and Innovation.in the Gilded Age.

 

This week's assignments:

-Homework #2- reading pages 264-285

-Topic 2 quiz

 

Objectives:

Topic 2.1 Innovation Boosts Growth

  • Explain how new inventions, scientific discoveries, and technological innovations fueled growth and improved the standard of living.
  • Describe the impact of industrialization in the late 1800’s.

Topic 2.2 Big Business Rises

  • Analyze different management innovations that businesses used to increase their profits.
  • Describe the public debate over the pros and cons of big business. 
  • Explain how the government took steps to block abuses of corporate power.

Topic 2.3 Organized Labor Movement

  • Assess the impact of business practices on workers in the late 1800’s. 
  • Compare the goals and strategies of the first labor unions. 
  • Analyze the causes and effects of strikes in the late 1800’s.

Topic 2.4 The New Immigrants

  • Compare the “new immigrants” of the late 1800’s to earlier immigrants. 
  • Explain the push and pull factors leading immigrants to America.

Topic 2.5 A Nation of Cities

  • Analyze urban growth in the late 1800’s. 
  • Explain how technology improved city life. 
  • Evaluate the problems caused by rapid urban growth and ways that city dwellers tried to solve them.
Due:
-Topic 2 assignments due 9/3
-Reading #2 due 9/2
-Topic 2 quiz on 9/4

Week 3 8/25-8/29

Hi people! This week we will begin Topic 2: Industry and Innovation in the Gilded Age.
 
This week's assignments: 
-Topic 2.1 Industry Boosts Growth
-Topic 2.2 Big Business Rises
-Topic 2.3 The Organized Labor Movement
-Topic 2.4 New Immigrants, Cities, and New Ways Life 
 
Objectives:

Topic 2.1 Innovation Boosts Growth

  • Explain how new inventions, scientific discoveries, and technological innovations fueled growth and improved the standard of living.
  • Describe the impact of industrialization in the late 1800’s.

Topic 2.2 Big Business Rises

  • Analyze different management innovations that businesses used to increase their profits.
  • Describe the public debate over the pros and cons of big business. 
  • Explain how the government took steps to block abuses of corporate power.

Topic 2.3 Organized Labor Movement

  • Assess the impact of business practices on workers in the late 1800’s. 
  • Compare the goals and strategies of the first labor unions. 
  • Analyze the causes and effects of strikes in the late 1800’s.

Topic 2.4 The New Immigrants, Cities, and News Ways of Life

  • Compare the “new immigrants” of the late 1800’s to earlier immigrants. 
  • Explain the push and pull factors leading immigrants to America.
  • Analyze urban growth in the late 1800’s. 
  • Explain how technology improved city life. 
  • Evaluate the problems caused by rapid urban growth and ways that city dwellers tried to solve them.
  • Explain how technology, new types of stores, and marketing changed Americans’ standard of living.
  • Analyze mass culture and education in the late 1800’s
  • Describe new popular cultural movements in the late 1800’s.
 
Due:
-Topic 2 assignments due 9/3
-Reading #2 due 9/2
 

Week 2 8/18-8/22

Hi people! This week we will begin Topic 1: Reconstruction. 
 
This week's assignment's:
-Topic 1.1 Plans for Reconstruction
-Topic 1.2 Reconstruction Changes the South
-Homework: read pages 188-210 in A People's History of the United States
-Topic 1.3 Reconstruction's Impact
 
Objectives:
Topic 1.1 Plans for Reconstruction
  • Explain the reasons why a plan was needed for Reconstruction of the South. 
  • Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress.
  • Describe Johnson’s political difficulties and impeachment. 
Topic 1.2 Reconstruction Changes the South
  • Explain how Republicans gained control of southern state governments. 
  • Analyze how freedmen adjusted to freedom and the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
  • Evaluate the South’s new economic system and its impact on poor farmers.
  • Summarize efforts to limit African Americans’ rights and the federal government’s response.
Topic 1.3 Reconstruction's Impact
  • Explain why Reconstruction ended. 
  • Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction.
  • Describe the experiences of African Americans in the changing South. 
  • Assess how whites created a segregated society in the South and how African Americans responded.
Due:
-Homework: read pages 188-210 in A People's History of the United States due 8/20
-Topic 1 assignments due 8/25

Week 1 8/11-8/15

Hi people! This week we will begin with our US History class. 
 
This week's assignments: 
-Signed Syllabus
-Map of US
-The Civil War Rages on documentary
 
Objectives: 
  • Students will be able to create a map of the United States that accurately identifies and labels all 50 states, their capitals, and major geographic features (such as mountain ranges, rivers, and lakes), demonstrating an understanding of U.S. political and physical geography.
  • Students will be able to explain the key events, figures, and turning points of the American Civil War as presented in the documentary “The Civil War Rages On,” and analyze how the war impacted the political, social, and economic landscape of the United States.
Due:
-Signed Syllabus due 8/18
-Map of US due 8/18
-The Civil War Rages on Documentary due 8/18