Timeframe

Essential
Standards

Lesson
Topic

Daily Essential Questions

Sample Resources/Activities,
Common Core Math, Reading,
Technology (M, R, T)

Formal &
Informal
Assessments

(Note: Technology can be implemented in each lesson

with Power Point lectures, video clips, and Smart
Board games)

America
under REConstruction
UNIT 2
SADDLE
UP

ES: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4,

2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.3, 4.3,
4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

5-7 days

Native
How were American Indians pushed to the Have students read and interpret excerpts from the
Americans on Great Plains and forced onto reservations? following: (R)
the Great Plains
Dawes Act
How did westward expansion and
Century of Dishonor
settlement impact various ethnic groups
Chief Josephs Speech
during the 19th Century?
The Future of the Redman
What events were key turning points in
the relationship between the Plains
Indians and the US government?

Examine maps of Native American territories prior to

westward expansion and based on the reservation
system (M)

Why and how did the federal government View excerpts from western movies and shows and
adopt a policy of assimilation of American discuss how they portray Native American versus
Indians and what was its impact?
settlers
How did the Americanization of the
Create a cause and effect chart for the fate of the
American Indian lead to the break up of
Great Plains Indians
the reservation system and the
disintegration of American Indian culture? Have students reenact various ways that Native
Americans were assimilated.
How did westward settlement and
expansion lead to the Indian Wars of the
Great Plains, culminating in the conflict at
Wounded Knee?

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

How did American Indians view westward

migration and its effects on their lives?

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.2,

Ranching and

How did the birth of the cattle industry

Have students create political cartoons of life in the

Vocabulary Check

8.1, 8.2

Mining

lead to the era of the American cowboy

and new patterns of migration and
settlement in the West?
Why did aridity, the availability of land,
and new land laws influence westward
migration?
How did conflicting claims over land and
water rights lead to violent range wars
between farmers and ranchers?

west and write the meaning for each on the back.

Have students write their own version of a dime
novel story of the Wild West. (R)
Have students determine the probability of getting
rich as a miner using statistics and profits gained by
western miners (M)

Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations

Have students listen to western songs and note kep Timelines

themes.
Thinking Maps
Create a timeline of the rise and fall of the American
West.
Review Games
Group Projects
Homework
Quizzes

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1,

8.1, 8.2

Life on the
Great Plains

Why did southern African Americans, or

xodusters, move westward after the
end of Reconstruction?

Read excerpts from the Little House series. Create a

Vocabulary Check
bubble map/ circle map of connections to class notes.
(R)
Daily Journals

How did westward expansion impact the

roles of women and their contributions to
society?

Create a cause and effect chart on the growth of the

railroad industry.

Evaluate a map of population movement in the late

How and why did the federal government 1800s to the West (M)
encourage the growth of the railroad
industry and how did its growth impact the Read and analyze the effects of either the Homestead
settlement and daily lives of various
Act or Turners Frontier Thesis (R)
groups?
Create a timeline of the rise and fall of the American
How did westward migration impact the
West
perceptions of the frontier and the
American Dream?

Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1,

Farmers and the How did the platform and leaders of the
Populists
Populist Party influence the presidential
election of 1896 and early 20th Century
American politics?

Read one of the following and interpret both meaning Vocabulary Check
and bias: (R)
Cross of Gold Speech
Daily Journals
Frank L. Baums Wizard of Oz
Court Decision Munn v. Illinois
Primary Source

1.1,
2.2,
4.2,
8.1,

UNIT 3
THE MEN
WHO BUILT
AMERICA
INDUSTRIAL
GROWTH IN
AMERICA
6-7 days

1.2,
3.1,
4.3,
8.2,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.2, 3.3, 4.1,
4.4, 5.1, 7.1,
8.3

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.2, 4.1, 8.1, 8.3

How did the collapse of the railroad

Interstate Commerce Act
industry factor into the Panics of 1873 and
1893?
Watch excerpts from The Wizard of Oz and relate to
populist movement
How did the Panics of 1873 and 1893
impact the political and social
Have students create their own allegory of the
development of the United States, such as Populist movement (or some other aspect of western
the Grange movement?
life)

Readings

Why did communities in the South and

West develop agrarian political
movements?

Have students calculate the effects of inflation and

deflation on the American farmer - gold standard v.
bimetallism (M)

Group Projects

View America: The Story of Us (Heartland Episode)

Homework

Write a western song (R)

Quizzes

Play review game with the class (via Smart Board if

possible)

Review Game

Unit Review and Unit review and assessment will cover all
Assessment essential questions from this unit

Unit Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, True/False, Short

Answer/Essay)

Industrial
Development

Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps

Review Games

Unit Test

How did the development of the railroad Create a thinking map of the impact of various
and telegraph industry impact patterns of inventions on both business and society in late 1800s.
migration and settlement in the 19th
Century?
Create a collage of items representing industrial
America
How did late 19th Century regulatory laws
of the national government impact
Write an essay on which invention at the turn of the
American industry and politics? (Interstate century most impacted America and why (R)
Commerce Act)
Read about Thomas Edisons process in inventing the
How and why did the United States
light bulb (R) and (M)
become more industrial and urban during
the 19th Century?

Vocabulary Check

Why did so many inventions occur within

the US during the mid-19th Century and
how did these innovations enable
urbanization?
How did the research and inventions of
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse
impact the economic development and
cultural progress of the United States?

Group Projects

Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps

Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1,

4.3, 5.1, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4

Growth of Big
Business

How did late 19th Century regulatory laws Read and interpret excerpts from any of the following Vocabulary Check
of the national government impact
documents: (R)
American industry and politics? (Sherman Gospel of Wealth
Daily Journals
Antitrust Act)
Ida Tarbells Expose on Standard Oil
Primary Source
How did Social Darwinism develop and
Readings
how did intellectuals use it to justify the
Political Cartoon Analysis
actions of industry and society at the turn (EX: Bosses of the Senate, What a Funny Little
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
of the century?
Government)
c Interpretations
How did Social Darwinism impact the
development of American industry,
government policies, and social customs
during late 1800s?

Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Social

Darwinism and Social Gospel Movement

Create your own business using the techniques

learned in class. Estimate profits using each
How did industrialists take risks during the technique. (M)
late 1800s to develop and monopolize
industries and how did their efforts impact Analyze quotes by famous industrialists and discuss
the economic development and cultural
reflections of Social Darwinism
progress of the United States?
Put industrialist on trial as Robber Barons v.
How did Captains of Industry defend
Captains of Industry
their acquisition of wealth and power
during the Gilded Age?
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.2,
4.3, 8.3

Labor Unions

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.2,

3.4, 8.2

Urban
Experience

Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

To what extent did rapid industrial

Write an editorial on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Vocabulary Check
development produce widespread poverty Fire (R)
and poor working conditions in the United
Daily Journals
States?
Use a thinking map to compare the three types of
labor unions: Knights of Labor, American Federation of Primary Source
How and why did labor unions form during Labor, and Industrial Labor Unions
Readings
the 19th Century and to what extent their
leadership bred opposition and results?
Evaluate factory deaths, injuries, and child labor
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
during the late 1800s (M)
c Interpretations
How and to what extent did various labor
groups demonstrate and benefit from
Create a labor union picket sign
Timelines
union tactics during the 19th Century?
Write letters to the editor supporting or protesting
Thinking Maps
To what extent did the American worker
attempts by labor unions
gain labor concessions and greater power
Group Projects
through unionization, collective
bargaining, and carious tactics of work
Review Games
stoppage?
Homework
Quizzes
How did 19th Century industrialization lead Read and interpret excerpts from any of the following Vocabulary Check
to urbanization in the United States?
documents: (R)

What were economic, physical, and social

hardships of being an immigrant in the
19th Century?

Chinese Exclusion Act

How the Other Half Lives
The New Colossus
Horatio Algers Rags to Riches books

Why did various national, cultural, and

ethnic groups decide to immigrate to the
United States in the 19th Century?

Photo Analysis of Life in the Cities

To what extent did the immigration of

various Eastern Europeans influence the
industrial, urban, and cultural
development of particular cities and
regions at the turn of the 20th Century?

View America: The Story of Us (Cities Episode)

How were new immigrants processed at

ports of entry and how were their lives
impacted by that process?

Debate: Melting Pot or Mosaic

Immigration Census Data Analysis (M)

View excerpts from An American Tale

Sample Citizenship Test

Graph patterns and sources of immigration to the US

over an extended period of time. Compare to todays
How did Nativism impact various groups of patterns (M)
immigrants and the cultural development
of the United States?

Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

How did immigrants benefit from the

services of individuals and public
institutions during the late 19th and early
20th Centuries?
Hoe did federal immigration laws affect
various immigrant groups?
To what extent did rapid industrial
development produce widespread poverty
and poor working conditions in the United
States?
How did the immigration process at the
beginning of the 20th Century and the
work of various charitable individuals
impact opportunity and mobility for new
immigrants?
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,
3.4, 4.1, 5.1

Gilded Age

How and to what extent did various local Read and interpret excerpts from the following
and state governments utilize immigrant document: (R)
votes to run political machines?
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Vocabulary Check

How did political machines use patronage Analyze lyrics of Presidential Campaign songs in the
and favoritism to win the support of big
Gilded Age

Primary Source
Readings

Daily Journals

business and working class voters?

Analyze census data in major cities or monetary
How did late 19th Century civil service
wealth of party bosses (M)
reform and regulatory laws of the national
government impact American politics and Political Cartoon Analysis (Thomas Nast Cartoons)
industry? (Pendleton Civil Service Act)

Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

1.1,
3.2,
4.3,
8.3,

UNIT 4
BIG
STICKISM
AMERICAN
IMPERIALISM
4-5 DAYS

1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2,
4.4, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2,
8.4

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1,
7.2, 8.4

Unit Review and Unit review and assessment will cover all
Assessment essential questions from this unit

Play review game with the class (via Smart Board if

possible)

Review Game
Unit Test

Unit Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, True/False, Short

Answer/Essay)

Imperialism
Begins

How did the desire for new trade markets Read and interpret excerpts from the following
by industrialized countries impact the
documents: (R)
distribution of global power and authority
Washingtons Farewell Address
at the turn of the century?
Monroe Doctrine
Influence of Sea Power on World History
How did Americans use religion, race, and American Anti-Imperialist League Platform
nationalism to both defend and object to
De Lome Letter
US imperialism?
White Mans Burden (Kipling)
Our Country (Strong)
How did the Spanish American War
1897 Petition Against Annexation of Hawaii
represent a turning point in US foreign
policy?
Draw political cartoons for or against imperialism

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps

How did the US become involved in the

Spanish American War?

Examine headlines from the papers of Hearst and

Pulitzer concerning the USS Maine

What economic and political aims led to

the US involvement in the Spanish
American War?

Create your own yellow journalism stories based on a Review Games

photo only (You furnish the pictures and Ill furnish
the war) (R)
Homework

How and why did the US gain territory and Examine costs of Spanish American War v. Profits (M)
influence in the Pacific in the years
preceding and following the Spanish
American War?

Group Projects

Quizzes

How did leaders and citizens of other

nations react to US expansion and
influence in their nations?
How did American political leaders use
foreign aggression as opportunities to
prepare for and request war (e.g. USS
Maine)?

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1,

6.1, 7.2

Becoming a
World Power

How did the desire for new trade markets Read and interpret excerpts from the following
by industrialized countries impact the
documents: (R)
distribution of global power and authority
Platt Amendment
at the turn of the century?
Albert Beveridges Address to Congress on
Philippines
What were the foreign policies of T.
Emilio Aguinaldos Pleas for Independence
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson at the turn of
Open Door Notes
the century and how was each
implemented?
View The Century: Americas Time (Seeds of Change)

Vocabulary Check

How did leaders and citizens of other

nation react to US expansion and
influence in their nations?

Timelines

Map the areas of the US imperialist activities around

the world. Analyze why these areas were the most
advantageous locations economically for the US to
control (M)

Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations

Thinking Maps

How did trade and commercial interests in

East Asia lead to the development of the Chart Presidential diplomacies of Teddy, Taft, and
Open Door Policy in China?
Wilson and how each is used today.

Group Projects

How did economic interests in Latin

America and the Caribbean guide the
foreign policies of T. Roosevelt, Taft, and
Wilson?

Discussion: Was America imperialistic at the turn of

the Century?

Homework

Play review game with the class (via Smart Board if

possible)

Review Game

Review Games

Quizzes

How did US imperial policy impact

American commerce and industry?
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,
2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1,
7.2, 8.4

Unit Review and Unit review and assessment will cover all
Assessment essential questions from this unit

Unit Test

Unit Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, True/False, Short

Answer/Essay)

UNIT 5
BECOMING

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 8.1

Turn of the
Century Life

How did 19th Century urbanization

generate new forms of mass
entertainment, such as vaudeville, city
parks, bicycles, and amusement parks?

Viewing and written analysis of Ashcan School

Paintings (R)
Compare the economic effects of mail order catalogs

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals

in the late 19th century and on-line business in the late Primary Source
Why did spectator sports become popular 20th century (M)
Readings
at the end of the 19th Century and how did
they impact American culture?
Assembly line demonstration
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
How did the birth of the automobile
Turn of the Century Life Pamphlet/Poster
industry impact the economic and cultural Advertisement
Timelines
development of the US?
Ragtime Music Analysis
Thinking Maps
How did the invention and use of the radio
impact economic, political, and cultural
Group Projects
development of the US?
Review Games
How did aviation and the airplane industry
develop from the Wright Brothers first
Homework
flight and how did it affect American
culture?
Quizzes

THE
AMERICA WE
KNOW
TODAY
AMERICAN
PROGRESS
6-8 DAYS

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1,

4.2, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 8.4

Discrimination How did southern tenant farming and

at the Turn of sharecropping lead to cultural and
the Century economic stagnation in much of the
South?
How were African Americans
disenfranchised after Reconstruction and
subjected to Jim Crow segregation?
Why did the Wilmington Race Riots occur
in NC in 1898 and how did the riot affect
local, state, and national politics?
How did the US Supreme Courts
interpretation of the 14th Amendment in
Plessy v. Ferguson impact African
Americans and the US during the 20th
Century?

Read and interpret excerpts from the following

documents: (R)
Plessy v. Ferguson Decision
Niagara Movements Declaration of Principles
Atlanta Compromise Speech (Washington)
Talented Tenth (Du Bois)
1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report
Southern Horrors (Ida B. Wells)

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations

Venn Diagram comparing Booker T. Washington and

WEB Du Bois and their views on equality

Timelines

Song Analysis: Lift Every Voice and Sing

Thinking Maps

Compare the economic status of African Americans v. Group Projects

that of whites in the late 1800s (M)
Review Games
Homework

How did former slaves view themselves

and their role in American society as free
citizens?

Quizzes

How did African American leaders of the

late 19th Century differ in how to best
achieve greater freedom and equality?

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1,

4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 8.4

The Progressive Why did Progressivism emerge in

Movement
American politics at the beginning of the

Read and interpret excerpts from the following

documents:

Vocabulary Check

20th Century?
In what ways did Progressivism help
government at all levels become more
democratic, efficient, and regulatory, as
well as greater advocates for social
justice?
How did the formation of the Socialist
Party of America and the leadership of
Eugene Debs influence American politics
at the turn of the century?
How did Progressivism change the
relationship between big business, labor
and government?

(R)
- Looking Backward (Bellamy)
- The Jungle (Sinclair)
- How the Other Half Lives (Riis)
- Shame of the Cities (Steffens)
- History of the Standard Oil Company (Tarbell)
Create examples of each voting reform in groups
Write a song about the Progressive Movement (R)
Create a bumper sticker in support or against one
progressive reform
Evaluate statistics on the number of work-related
accidents in meatpacking industry in the late 1800s
(M)

To what extent did the Social Gospel

Discussion: Who was left out of the Progressive
Movement and settlement house
Movement? OR Was the Progressive Movement a
movement respond to rising social
success?
tensions and injustices of the urban
population? What were their motivations?

Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

How did various muckraking journalists

work to expose social, economic, and
political ills of an industrialized society?

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.1, 4.2

Teddy Roosevelt How did President Theodore Roosevelt

Read and interpret excerpts from the following
as a Progressive lead and advocate for progressive reform documents: (R)
that regulated business and protected the Meat Inspection Act
worker and consumer?
Northern Securities v. US Decision
How did Progressivism change the
relationship between big business, labor
and government?

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals

Primary Source
Create a chart of Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal goals Readings
and accomplishments
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
Assess maps of land conserved and preserved during c Interpretations
Roosevelts presidency (M)
Timelines
Write a paper on the impact of Roosevelts reforms on
American today.
Thinking Maps
Write an editorial on Roosevelt as a President.

Group Projects

Discussion: Should Roosevelt run for a third term?

Review Games
Homework

Quizzes
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1,
4.2

Taft and the How did President William Taft lead and
Election of 1912 advocate for progressive reform that
regulated business and protected the
worker and consumer?
How did Progressivism change the
relationship between big business, labor
and government?

Imagine you are Teddy Roosevelt and write a journal

entry expressing your opinions on Tafts presidency
Create a political cartoon for or against Taft as
President
View electoral maps from the Election of 1912 (M)

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games
Homework
Quizzes

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.1, 4.2

Woodrow Wilson How did President Woodrow Wilson lead

as a Progressive and advocate for progressive reform that
regulated business and protected the
worker and consumer?
How did Progressivism change the
relationship between big business, labor
and government?

Read and interpret excerpts from the following

documents: (R)
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
Clayton Antitrust Act

Vocabulary Check

Compare and contrast the Sherman Antitrust Act and

the Clayton Antitrust Act

Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations

Create a visual of the Triple Wall of Privilege and how

each was attacked under Wilsons New Freedom

Timelines

Analyze tax revenue to US government before and

after income tax (M)

Review Games

Daily Journals
Primary Source
Readings

Thinking Maps
Create a thinking map comparing Roosevelt, Taft, and
Wilson and their progressive policies
Group Projects

Discussion: Modern effects of New Freedom

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

Unit Review and Unit review and assessment will cover all

Play review game with the class (via Smart Board if

Homework
Quizzes
Review Game

2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,

5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.4

1.1,
2.2,
4.1,
5.2,
8.1,

1.2,
3.1,
4.2,
6.1,
8.2,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
4.3, 4.4, 5.1,
6.2, 7.1, 7.2,
8.3, 8.4

Assessment

essential questions from this unit

possible)
Unit Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, True/False, Short
Answer/Essay)

Six Weeks
Review

Six weeks review will cover all essential

questions from the first four units

Play
-

review game with class

Smart Board Games
Jeopardy
Elimination
Timelines
Train Wreck

Unit Test

Review Games
Study Guide

Complete study guide for first six weeks

1.1,
2.2,
4.1,
5.2,
8.1,

1.2,
3.1,
4.2,
6.1,
8.2,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
4.3, 4.4, 5.1,
6.2, 7.1, 7.2,
8.3, 8.4

1.1,
2.2,
4.1,
5.2,
8.1,

1.2,
3.1,
4.2,
6.1,
8.2,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
4.3, 4.4, 5.1,
6.2, 7.1, 7.2,
8.3, 8.4

Benchmark
Benchmark Assessment #1 will cover all
Assessment #1 essential questions from the first four
units

Six Weeks
Reteach

Benchmark Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, Short

Answer)

Six Weeks Reteach will cover all material Small group reviews
that needs to be reviewed as revealed by
benchmark scores
One-on-One Reteach
Peer Tutors
Lecture Review
Thinking Map Creation

Benchmark Test

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games

UNIT 6
THE WAR
TO END ALL
WARS
WWI

1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2

Causes of WWI

What factors combined to bring the world, R: Create a WWI Timeline

and ultimately the U.S. into WWI?
T: PowerPoint Notes

Timeline students
will add to it each
day as new events
are discussed

6-7 DAYS
1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2,
7.2, 8.2, 8.3

U.S. in WWI

What impact did the U.S. have on the war R: Primary document from soldiers fighting in WWI;
effort?
write a journal entry about the war from the soldiers
perspective
How did the U.S. prepare for the war?
T: Play song Over There & discuss its meaning

Timeline, journal
entry

M: discuss the impact of WWI on American industry

1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2,

UNIT 7

Wilsons 14
Points and the
Treaty of
Versailles

What were Wilsons plans for peace?

1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.4,

4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3,
8.3

Return to
Normalcy

What were the political, economic, social, M: impact of WWI on American industry
and cultural effects of WWI on the U.S.?

Timeline

1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1,

7.2, 7.3, 8.3

Effects of WWI

What were the short term and long term M: impact of WWI on the world economy
effects of WWI on the U.S. and the world?

Timeline,
vocabulary review
sheet

1.1,
2.2,
4.4,
7.2,

1.2,
3.2,
5.2,
7.3,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.3, 4.1, 4.3,
6.1, 6.2, 7.1,
8.2

Review

Unit review and assessment will cover all

essential questions from this unit

T: Review game using Smart Board

Study Guide

1.1,
2.2,
4.4,
7.2,

1.2,
3.2,
5.2,
7.3,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.3, 4.1, 4.3,
6.1, 6.2, 7.1,
8.2

Test on WWI

Unit review and assessment will cover all

essential questions from this unit

R: Interpretation of test questions

Unit Test

How did the victors change Wilsons

plans?

R: Excerpts from the Treaty of Versailles, Wilsons 14

Points

Timeline

1.2, 1.3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1,

7.1, 7.3, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4

Roaring 20s:
How did the economy grow during the
T: video clips on flappers, Al Capone, music of the time Vocabulary
Economy,
1920s?
period
crossword puzzle
Prohibition,
Womens rights How was life changed by the prosperity of
the 1920s?

1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.3, 4.4,

5.1, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4

Roaring 20s:
What significant social, intellectual, and
R: Excerpts from authors of the time period
Mass media,
technological changes occurred during the
Lost Generation, 1920s?
T: video clip of Steamboat Willie, music of the time

BOOM TO
BUST
7-8 DAYS

Gallery Walk about

the culture of the
Roaring 20s

Harlem
Renaissance

1.1,
2.2,
4.3,
7.1,
8.1,

1.2,
3.3,
4.4,
7.2,
8.3,

1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.4. 4.1, 4.2,
5.1, 5.2, 6.1,
7.3
8.4

Review & Quiz

period
How did the Harlem Renaissance
challenge the perception of race in
America?
How did the U.S. change during the
Roaring 20s?

1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1,

4.2, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3,
8.4

Great
Depression
Begins

What were the main causes of the Great

Depression?

1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2,

5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

FDR & the 1st

New Deal

What was the purpose of the New Deal?

T: Video reviewing the Roaring 20s

Vocabulary Review

R: Interpretation of quiz questions

Quiz

R: Write a journal entry about how the Great

Depression affected

How did President Hoover try to deal with M: Decline of American economy
the Depression?
T: PowerPoint Notes
M: Impact of the New Deal on employment

Vocabulary of New
Deal Review

What effect did the New Deal have on the T: The Presidents video on Hoover and Roosevelt
American people?
1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2,
5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

FDR & the 2nd

New Deal

How was the 2nd New Deal different from

the 1st?

M: Impact of the New Deal on employment

Alphabet Soup
matching game

What effect did the New Deal have on the

American people?
1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2,
8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

Culture during
the Great
Depression

How did the Great Depression impact

society?
What was the lasting legacy of the New
Deal?

R: Excerpts from literature of the Depression

T: Music, movie clips of the 1930s

1.1,
2.2,
4.3,
7.1,
8.4

1.2,
3.2,
4.4,
7.2,

1.3,
3.4,
5.1,
8.1,

1.4,
4.1,
5.2,
8.2,

2.1,
4.2,
6.1,
8.3,

Review

Unit review and assessment will cover all

essential questions from this unit

T: Smart Board review game

Study Guide

1.1,
2.2,
4.3,
7.1,
8.4

1.2,
3.2,
4.4,
7.2,

1.3,
3.4,
5.1,
8.1,

1.4,
4.1,
5.2,
8.2,

2.1,
4.2,
6.1,
8.3,

Test on Roaring
20s & Great
Depression

Unit review and assessment will cover all

essential questions from this unit

R: Interpretation of test questions

Test

2.2, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2,

UNIT 8 1.2,
7.3
THE
WORLD AT
WAR
AGAIN?

Causes of WWII What were the main causes of WWII?

T: PowerPoint Notes, video clips

What factors combined to draw the world

and the U.S. into WWII?

Thinking Map of
causes of WWII

How did the U.S. respond to the new war?

WWII
8-10 DAYS
1.3, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2,
6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.3

US Enters WWII Was U.S. involvement in WWII inevitable? R: Excerpt of Korematsu v. U.S. court decision
the Home front
How and why did WWII impact the
M: Effect of the war on the U.S. economy
economic, social, cultural and political life
in the U.S.?

Discussion of life in
Internment camps,
experience of
Japanese Americans

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.2, 7.1,

7.2, 7.3,

War in Europe

What was the U.S. militarys role in the

war in Europe?

Timeline students
will add to it each
day as new events
are discussed

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.2, 7.3,

Holocaust

Why did the Holocaust occur?

R/T: Oral Histories from survivors of the Holocaust

Timeline

What was the effect of the Holocaust?

Class discussion of
the Holocaust
Timeline

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.2, 7.1,

7.2, 7.3,

War in the
Pacific

How did the U.S. respond to the Japanese R: Read and discuss different perspectives to the use
attack on Pearl Harbor?
of the atomic bomb; write an essay arguing for or
against the use of the bomb
To what extent was Americas decision to
drop the Atomic Bomb a viable option to T: PowerPoint notes
ending the war in the Pacific?

1.3, 2.2, 5.2, 6.2, 7.1,

7.2, 7.3, 8.3

End of WWII &

the Effects of
WWII

What effects did WWII have on the U.S.

and the world?

M: Effect of WWII on the U.S. and worlds economy

How did WWII lead to the political conflict

of the Cold War?
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

Review

Unit review and assessment will cover all

T: Review Game on Smart Board

Study Guide

2.2, 3.2, 3.3, 4.3, 4.4,

5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2,
7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
1.1,
2.2,
5.2,
7.3,

1.2,
3.2,
6.1,
8.1,

1.3,
3.3,
6.2,
8.2,

1.4,
4.3,
7.1,
8.3,

2.1,
4.4,
7.2,
8.4

1.1,
2.2,
4.2,
6.1,
8.1,

1.2,
3.2,
4.3,
6.2,
8.2,

1.3,
3.3,
4.4,
7.1,
8.3,

1.4,
3.4,
5.1,
7.2,
8.4

2.1,
4.1,
5.2,
7.3,

essential questions from this unit

Test WWII

Six Weeks
Review

Unit review and assessment will cover all

essential questions from this unit

R: Interpretation of Test questions

Six weeks review will cover all essential

questions from the first four units

Play
-

review game with class

Smart Board Games
Jeopardy
Elimination
Timelines
Train Wreck

Test

Review Games
Study Guide

Complete study guide for first six weeks

1.1,
2.2,
4.2,
6.1,
8.1,

1.2,
3.2,
4.3,
6.2,
8.2,

1.3,
3.3,
4.4,
7.1,
8.3,

1.4,
3.4,
5.1,
7.2,
8.4

2.1,
4.1,
5.2,
7.3,

1.1,
2.2,
4.2,
6.1,
8.1,

1.2,
3.2,
4.3,
6.2,
8.2,

1.3,
3.3,
4.4,
7.1,
8.3,

1.4,
3.4,
5.1,
7.2,
8.4

2.1,
4.1,
5.2,
7.3,

Benchmark
Benchmark Assessment #1 will cover all
Assessment #1 essential questions from the first four
units

Six Weeks
Re-teach

Benchmark Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, Short

Answer)

Six Weeks Re-teach will cover all material Small group reviews
that needs to be reviewed as revealed by
benchmark scores
One-on-One Re-teach
Peer Tutors
Lecture Review
Thinking Map Creation

Benchmark Test

Vocabulary Check
Daily Journals
Photo/Cartoon/Musi
c Interpretations
Timelines
Thinking Maps
Group Projects
Review Games

UNIT 9
ITS NOT
COLD

1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4,

2.1, 2.2, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2,
7.1, 7.2,

Introduction to
the Cold War

Democracy v. Communism Comparison Chart

Explain how post-war agreements
between the Allies of World War II led
Documents (R):
to the division of Europe between
George F. Kennan, The Long Telegram
Communism and Democracy.

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test

OUTSIDE
THOUGH

THE COLD
WAR

Analyze the policy of the United

States toward communism. How did
the US enact this policy?
Describe the idea of mutual
protection and how both the US and
Soviet Union accomplished it.

Mapping the Cold War (M)

6-7 DAYS
1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4,
2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.4, 6.1,
6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.2,

Truman and the

Cold War

1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4,

2.1, 2.2, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2,
7.1, 7.3, 8.1

Eisenhower and
the 1950s

1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4,

2.1, 2.2, 4.2, 4.4,
8.2, 8.4

7.3,

1950s Culture

Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Identify the various forces involved in Documents ( R ):

Truman Doctrine
the Korean War and how the conflict
Marshall Plan
played out.
Evaluate the authenticity of the Red
Korean War Map(M)
Scare and how the United States
handled the reaction to it.
What obstacles blocked Trumans Fair The Century Video Series: The Best Years (T)
Deal? Why?
Marshall Plan Map (M)

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Why did the US choose the policy of Documents ( R ):

brinkmanship in dealing with the Cold Geneva Accords of 1954
Eisenhowers Farewell Address
War?
What was the Eisenhower Doctrine
and to whom did it apply?
Evaluate the success of both the US
and USSR in the space race.
Examine why the U2 Incident strained
US and Soviet relations.

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Assess the extent to which the 1950s Documents ( R ):

was an era of conformity in the United Excerpts from the Congressional Record
from Joseph McCarthy on the
States.
Communist threat, 1950
( R ) Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation

Century series: Happy Daze (T)

Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework
1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4,
2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.4, 6.1,
6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

Kennedy

1.1,
2.1,
6.2,
8.2,

UNIT 10
PEACE,
LOVE, AND
EQUALITY?

1.2, 1.3,1.4,
2.2, 4.1, 4.4, 6.1,
7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1,
8.4

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.1,4.2, 5.1, 5.2,
7.3, 8.3

Interpret the reason for John F.

Kennedys victory over Richard Nixon
in 1960.
Evaluate the purpose and success of
both the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Discuss Kennedys domestic
programs, their overall aims, and his
difficulties accomplishing each.
Assess the United States
accomplishments in the Space Race
of the 1950s.
What are the theories surrounding
Kennedys death and what was the
verdict of the Warren Commission?

Unit Review and Unit review and assessment will cover all
Assessment essential questions from this unit

Documents ( R ):
National Defense Education Act
John F. Kennedys Inaugural Address
Kennedys speech on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Map (M)

Play review game with the class (via Smart Board if

possible)
Unit Test (Multiple Choice, Matching, True/False, Short
Answer/Essay)

Johnson and the

Great Society

How did Johnson propose to create a Century Video: Poisoned Dreams (T)
Great Society and end poverty?
In what ways did government seek to Graph Great Society spending (M)
protect its citizens from businesses in
the 1960s?
Analyze why the Warren Court was so
revolutionary in its decisions.

AMERICA IN
TURMOIL
8-10 DAYS
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,
2.2, 4.1 4.3,
5.1, 5.2, 7.3, 8.3, 8.4

Civil Rights
Movement

What laws existed to protect African

Americans and why werent they
enforced?
Describe the slow progress of African

Documents ( R ):
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Martin Luther King, Letter from a
Birmingham Jail, I Have a Dream

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Review Game
Unit Test

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework
Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1,
6.2, 7.1, 7.3, 8.3

Vietnam War

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.3, 7.3, 8.3, 8.4

1960s Culture

American rights from the turn of the

century through the 1950s.
Determine the effect of the
Montgomery Bus Boycotts and the
Little Rock Nine on the success of the
early Civil Rights Movement.
Describe the tactics and effectiveness
of the SCLC and SNCC in the early
1960s.
Analyze the role of JFK and LBJ in the
success of the Civil Rights Movement.
What changed in the Civil Rights
Movement in the mid-1960s?
Compare and contrast the ideas of
the Black Power movement, the
Nation of Islam, and the Black
Panthers.
How did the assassinations of 1968
affect the Civil Rights Movement?

Speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Describe the situation in Vietnam

leading up to US involvement.
What was the significance of the Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution?
Evaluate Vietnam as opposed to all
previous wars in US History.
Assess the changes in the support for
the Vietnam War in the late 60s early
70s.
What was Nixons solution to the
Vietnam problem and what
controversies did it create?
Describe how the conflict in Vietnam
ended and evaluate its success.

( R ) Documents:
Journals
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Timelines
President Johnsons State of the Union Address (1966) Quizzes
26th Amendment
Unit Test
New York Times v. U.S. (1971)
Pre/Post Test
War Powers Act
Vocabulary check
Paris Peace Accords of 1973
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
Mapping Vietnam (M)
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Draft Lottery (M)
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Describe the attitudes, beliefs, and

practices of the counterculture
movement.
What successes and drawbacks
occurred for women, Latinos, and
Native Americans in the 1960s?

Documents:
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Equal Rights Amendment

Suggested Websites ( T ):
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/ga
llery/movement.asp
http://www.wmich.edu/mlk/
http://www.mlkonline.net/speeches.ht
ml

( R )Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Century video: Unpinned

Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects

Review Games
Homework
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,
2.2, 4.1,4.2, 5.2, 6.1,
6.2, 7.1, 8.3

Nixon

UNIT 11
THATS
TOTALLY
RAD
DUEDE

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

2.2, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1,
8.3

The 1970s (Ford

and Carter)

Analyze the goals of Nixons New

Federalism.
What was Nixons southern strategy
and how did it play out in his dealings
with the Supreme Court?
What economic troubles did
Americaace

Documents ( R ):
Excerpts from Richard Nixons memoirs related to his
China visit
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg (1971)
(T)Century video: Apocalypse

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Describe the actions of Ford while in ( R )Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

( R )Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
office in regards to Watergate,
Inflation and Dtente.
(T)Century video: Starting Over
What struggles did Carter deal with
while in office and how did he handle
each?

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Describe the conservative shift in the Electoral Map (M)

1980s in regards to social and
(T)Century Video: A New World
political matters.
How did the conservatives of the
1980s deal with the issues of the Cold Campaign Commercials (T)
War?
Discuss events that led to the
collapse of the Soviet Union.
What was the overall tone of the
conservative movement in foreign

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects

THE
EIGHTIES
AND
NINETIES &
2000S
7-8 DAYS
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,
2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 6.1,
6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4

The 1980s and

Conservatism
(Reagan and
Bush)

policy?

1.1,
2.2,
6.1,
8.3,

1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1,

3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2,
6.2, 7.1, 7.3, 8.1,
8.4

Modern Era
(1992-present)

All NC Essential
Standards for US
History II

Review and
Assessment

Discuss the significance of both the

1992 and 2000 elections.
Describe the policies of the Clinton
administration and the effect they
had on America.
What are current immigration
patterns and their effects on
American society?
Describe post-9/11 America and how
is it different from the America we
once knew?

Review and assessment will cover all

essential questions from this six weeks
and from throughout the year

Review Games
Homework

Documents ( R ):
Americans with Disabilities Act
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Electoral Maps (M) (T)
Immigration Maps and Census Information (M)
Century video: Then and Now (T)

Play review game with the class (via Smart Board if

possible)
Final Exam (Multiple Choice, Matching, True/False,
Short Answer/Essay)

Journals
Timelines
Quizzes
Unit Test
Pre/Post Test
Vocabulary check
Primary Sources
Photo/cartoon/musi
c interpretation
Thinking maps
Group projects
Review Games
Homework

Review Game
Exam