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SEMESTER 1 (Quarter 1 and Quarter 2):
Unit 0: Observations and Inferences
NOTES: #0 “A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words”
- HANDOUT: Observations, Inferences, and Predictions
- WORK SHEET: Photo Analysis Work Sheet
Unit 1: World War I
UNIT OUTLINE: Unit #1 WWI
TEXT: Chapter 11 The First World War 1914-1920
NOTES: #1 World War I: MAINE Causes (slides 1-28)
- TEXT: 11.1 World War I Begins – pg. 372
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: 11.1 MAIN(E) Causes and Vocabulary
- VIDEO: Crash Course: HOW WWI Started
- VIDEO: Crash Course Crash Course Who Started WWI?
- VOCABULARY: #4 Triple-Entry Vocabulary Causes of WWI
- GOOGLE ACTIVITY: #4 WWI
NOTES: #1World War I: War Begins (slides 29-59)
- CRITICAL READING: “5 Things You Should Know About WWI” 5-4-3-2-1
NOTES: #1 World War I: America Enters the War (slides 60-78)
- VIDEO: Crash Course: America in WWI
NOTES: #1 World War I: Impact on Homefront (slides 79-112)
NOTES: #1 World War I Ends: Will There be Peace? (slides 113-147)
Unit 2: Post WWI – The 1920s
TEXTBOOK: Ch 12 Politics of the Roaring 20s & Ch13 Life in the Roaring 20s GLOSSARY: Vocabulary A-Z
NOTES: #2 The 1920s: Post WWI (slides 1-21)
- TEXT: Section 1 “Americans Struggle With Post War Issues”
- QUIZLET: Section 1 “Americans Struggle With Post War Issues”
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
- VIDEO: Section 1 “The Red Scare”
- VIDEO: Section 1 “The KKK”
NOTES: #2 The 1920s: Harding (slides 22-27)
- TEXT: Section 2 “The Harding Presidency”
- VIDEO: “The President Series #29: Warren G. Harding”
- VIDEO: Section 2 “American Politics & the Tea Pot Dome Scandal”
NOTES: #2 The 1920s: The Business of America (slides 22-41)
- TEXT: Section 3 “The Business of America”
- VIDEO: Section 3 “American Economy”
- QUIZLET: Section 3: “The Business of America”
NOTES: #2 The 1920s: Life in the 20s & the Jazz Era (slides 43-65)
- TEXT: Ch 13 Sections 1-4
- PROJECT: The Roaring Life of the 1920s
- VIDEO: Organized Crime
- VIDEO: New Morality
- VIDEO: Prohibition & the 18th Amendment
- VIDEO: Women in the 1920s
- VIDEO: American Popular Culture & Literature
- VIDEO: Schools & Culture
- VIDEO: American Arts, Culture & the Harlem Renaissance
- QUIZLET: Chapter 13 Sections 1-4
REVIEW: The 1920s
Unit 3: The Great Depression
TEXTBOOK: Ch 14 The Great Depression Begins & Chapter 15 The New Deal GLOSSARY: Vocabulary A-Z
NOTES: #3 The Great Depression – Causes (slides 1-17)
- TEXT: Chapter 14 Section 1 “The Nation’s Sick Economy”
- VIDEO: “America the Story of US: the Bust” (0:00-29:00 minutes)
- VIEWING GUIDE: “America the Story of US: the Bust” #1-3
- CRITICAL READING: “1929: From Boom to Bust” 5-4-3-2-1
- QUIZLET: Chapter 14 Sections 1
NOTES: #3 The Great Depression – Hardship & Suffering/Impact on Americans (slides 20-34)
- TEXT: Chapter 14 Section 2 “Hardship and Suffering During the Depression”
- VIDEO: “America the Story of US: the Bust” (0:00-29:00 minutes)
- PHOTO ANALYSIS: Photo Analysis Work Sheet
- LITERATURE: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Chapter 19)
- QUIZLET: Chapter 14 Sections 2
NOTES: #3: The Great Depression – Hoover Struggles (slides 35-57)
- TEXT: Chapter 14 Section 3 “Hoover Struggles with Depression”
- VIDEO: The President Series: #31 Herbert Hoover
- VIEWING GUIDE: America the Story of Us – Bust
- QUIZLET: Chapter 14 Sections 3
- REVIEW: Hoover Fails #1-4
NOTES: #3: The Great Depression – FDR’s New Deal (slides 59-89)
- TEXT: Chapter 15 Section 1 “The New Deals Fights Depression”
- TEXT: Chapter 15 Section 2 “The Second New Deal Takes Hold”
- TEXT: Chapter 15 Section 5 “The Impact of the New Deal”
- VIDEO: The President Series #32 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- REVIEW: “The New Deal” #1-4
Study Guide: Unit #3 The 1920s & Unit #6 The 1930s
Unit 4: World War II
NOTES: #4 WWII – War Looms in Europe 1930s Fascism (Slides 1-39)
- TEXT: Chapter 16 Section 1 “Dictators Threaten World Peace”
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: (Web) Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco
- VOCAB: Nazism, Fascism, Totalitarian, Neutrality Act
- WORKSHEET: #4 “The Players and Their Games” World Leaders and Nations 1938
- VIDEO: The Ducktators (1942)
- CRITICAL READING: Genocide in the 20th Century
NOTES: #4 WWII – War in Europe (Slides 40-62)
NOTES: #4 WWII – America Enters the War (slides 97-119)
- TEXT: Chapter 17 Section 1 “Mobilizing for Defense”
- TEXT: Chapter 17 Section 4 “The Homefront”
- VIDEO: TED Talk “Why I love a country that once betrayed me”George Takei (Japanese Internment Camps)
- CRITICAL READING: “A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II”
Additional WWII Resources
- NOTES: #7 WWII – Isolationism
- NOTES: #7 WWII – Europe
- NOTES: #7 WWII – Pearl Harbor
- NOTES: #7 WWII – The Pacific/Defeating the Japanese
- NOTES: #7 WWII – The Homefront
- NOTES: #7 WWII – Propaganda
- VIDEO: Donald Duck der Nazi
- VIDEO: Private SNAFU – Spies (1943)
- HANDOUT: #7 “Types of Propaganda”
- NOTES: #7 WWII – The Manhattan Project
- ARTICLE: “The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs”
- NOTES: #7 WWII – Post War
SEMESTER 2 (Quarter 3 and Quarter 4):
Unit 8: Civil Rights Movement – History, Nonviolence, Any Means Necessary
NOTES: #8 Civil Rights: History 1863-1955 (slides 1-53)
- CRITICAL READING: “Slavery in America”
- VOCABULARY: #8 Civil Rights – History
- WORKSHEET: “Emmett Till Revisited” 5-4-3-2-1
- VIDEO: “The Murder of Emmett Till” (PBS)
- WORKSHEET: Video Viewing Guide The Murder of Emmett Till
NOTES: #8 Civil Rights: Milestones & the Nonviolent Movement 1955-1968 (slides 54-89)
- VOCABULARY: Civil Rights – Nonviolence
- VIDEO: “Birmingham 1963“
- TEXTBOOK: Chapter 21 Section 1 “Taking on Segregation“
- TEXTBOOK: Chapter 21 Section 2 “Triumphs of the Crusade” (success of the Civil Rights Movement)
- TEXTBOOK: Chapter 21 Section 3 “Challenges and Changes of the Movement“
NOTES: #8 Civil Rights: Any Means Necessary
- VENN: MLK v. Malcolm X
- VIDEO: MLK: “I Have a Dream”
- VIDEO: Malcolm X: “Black Nationalism”
Unit 11: Crash Course on the Cold War
NOTES:#11 The Cold War
Unit 11: The Vietnam War: History
NOTES:#11 The Vietnam War: History 1883-1960
TIMELINE: #11 History of Vietnam 1883-1960
MAP: Outline map of South East Asia, #11 Map directions/list of locations to identify
REVIEW: #11 Vietnam: Timeline and Geography #1-2
CRITICAL READING: #11 “1964: The Vietnam War” 5-4-3-2-1
Unit 12: The Vietnam War: Escalation/US Involvement
NOTES:#12 The Vietnam War: Escalation/US Involvement
VOCABULARY: #12 The Vietnam War
Additional Resources:
Unit 1: Industrialization and Urbanization (1900s)
UNIT OUTLINE: Unit #1 Industrialization, Urbanization & Immigration
NOTES: #1 Industrialization and Urbanization: Technology and Labor
- ARTICLE: “Child Labor” (with video); “Child Labor” (without video)
- WORKSHEET: “Sum It Up Template“
- VOCABULARY: #1 Industrialization and Urbanization Triple-Entry Vocab
- VIDEO: “America The Story of US: Cities” (start at 9:30-44:00 min)
- MINI DBQ: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Mini DBQ #1-2
NOTES: #1 Immigration
- VOCABULARY: #1 Immigration Triple-Entry Vocab
- POLITICAL CARTOON: “Cartoon Analysis Worksheet”
Unit 2: Progressivism
UNIT OUTLINE:#2 Progressivism
NOTES: #2 Progressivism – Introduction
- VOCABULARY: #2 Progressivism Triple-Entry Vocab
NOTES: #2 Progressivism – Reforms
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: “Government Corruption and Election Reform” (pages 535-535)
- VIDEO: “#26 Theodore Roosevelt”
- T/F: “#2 Progressive President: Theodore Roosevelt True/False”
- VOCABULARY: #2 Progressivism – Theodore Roosevelt Triple-Entry Vocab
NOTES: “#2 Progressivism – President T. Roosevelt”
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: “Theodore Roosevelt’s New Deal – 3 Cs” web OR two-column (pages 538-542)
NOTES: “#2 Progressivism – Wiliam Howard Taft”
NOTES: “#2 Progressivism – Woodrow Wilson”
- VIDEO: “#28 Woodrow Wilson“
- T/F: “#2 Progressive President: Woodrow Wilson True/False”
- POLITICAL CARTOON: “Cartoon Analysis Worksheet”
Unit 3: America & The World: Imperialism
UNIT OUTLINE: Unit #3 Imperialism
NOTES: #3 Imperialism: Introduction & Spanish-American War
NOTES: U.S. Territories (Ms. Leach’s notes)
- VOCABULARY: #3 Imperialism Triple-Entry Vocab
- MAP: Outline map of the World
- VIDEO: “Is Puerto Rico Part of the U.S.?“
- ARTICLE: “Everything You Need to Know About United States Territories“
- ARTICLE: “How the United States Ended Up With Guam“
- GOOGLE ASSIGNMENT: Imperialism Google Assignment
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