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Course Instructor School Semester/Year

American History Maddyson Wilson Appalachian State University 2022-2023

Unit Name of Unit Overarching Concepts CONTENT Objectives SKILLS Objectives Prioritized
(or Learning Segment) i.e. themes you will revisit and repeat in see NC Standards for History, see NC Standards: INQUIRY Pacing
this course; see “Unpacking Economics, Civics & Government,
Focus Areas # of days
Document” from NCDPI for examples Geography, and Behavioral Sciences
Big ideas / brief description of unit
1 Critical Thinking In History ● Primary and Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 4
secondary ● AH.B.1.4 ● I.1.4
What skills do historians use documents
to analyze the past? Students ● Historical Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
will learn how to accurately continuity ● AH.C&G.1.3 ● I.1.2
find and identify primary and ● Research process ● AH.E.1.1 ● I.1.1
secondary sources, learn to ● Historical ● AH.G.1.1 ● I.1.3
differentiate between questions
historical continuity and
change, and identify the steps
of the research process.
2 American Identity ● Sexism Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 5
● Racism ● AH.B.1.3 ● I.1.1
How have things like gender, ● Gender
race, and class help developed ● Equality Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
our sense of American ● Women’s Rights ● AH.B.1.6 ● I.1.5
identity over time? Students ● Civil Rights ● AH.B.1.5 ● I.1.6
will be able to identify how ● Identity
oppressive events, wars, and ● Foreign Affairs
other major societal shaping
events contributed to the view
of American identity from a
domestic and foreign view.

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3 American Identity: War ● The Definition of Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 9
What does American identity Freedom ● AH.C&G.1.1 ● I.1.5
look like during times of ● Monarchy
conflict? Students will be able ● King George III Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
to identify the cause and effect ● Stamp Act ● AH.E.1.4 ● I.1.3
of the monarchy raising taxes ● Sugar Act ● AH.G.1.2
versus the start of the ● Quartering Act ● AH.C&G.2.3
American Revolution in 1775. ● Boston Massacre
Students will be able to ● Tea Act
identify significant battles ● Battles of Lexington
throughout the Revolutionary and Concord
War and also be able to ● Southern Campaigns
identify the cause of the end ● Articles of
of the war. Confederation
4 American Identity: Expansion ● Immigration Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 5
● The Atlantic Slave ● AH.G.1.2 ● I.1.4
What does American Identity Trade
look like under an expanding ● Thomas Jefferson Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
nation? In what ways were ● James Madison ● AH.E.1.3 ● I.1.2
different minority groups ● Lewis and Clark ● I.1.3
oppressed under this growing ● War of 1812
nation?
5 American Identity: State’s ● Slavery Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 7
Rights ● State’s Rights ● AH.G.1.4 ● I.1.6
● Racism
What does American identity ● Abraham Lincoln Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
look like during the Civil War? ● AH.H.3.1 ● I.1.2
What does it look like from ● AH.G.1.3 ● I.1.3
the view of an enslaved ● AH.E.1.1 ● I.1.5
person? Students will be able
to identify the causes and
effects of the Civil War and

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 the three phases of
Reconstruction.
6 American Identity: Capitalism ● Capitalism Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 5
● Industrialization ● AH.E.1.3 ● I.1.4
How did American Identity ● Classism
develop during ● Labor strikes Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
Industrialization and the ● Mark Twain’s A Tale of ● AH.E.1.5 ● I.1.2
beginning of American Today ● AH.H.3.3 ● I.1.1
capitalism? Students will be ● ● AHC&G.2.2 ● I.1.3
able to identify how the
market began to expand, along
with the shaping of the
working class, and labor
struggles. Students will also be
able to identify common
marks of the Gilded Age such
as economic growth, factories,
railroads, and coal mining
7 American Identity: Imperialism ● World’s Fair in 1904 Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 8
● Allied Powers ● AH.C&G.1.4 I.1.1
Students will begin to identify ● “A war to end all
the impact of the United wars” Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
States’ occupation of the ● Militarism ● AH.H.2.1 I.1.5
Philippines and Hawaii. They ● The Assassination of ● AH.H.3.4 I.1.6
will also understand the Archduke Franz
beginnings of WWI and the Ferdinand
United States involvement in
the war.
8 American Identity: Culture ● Harlem Renaissance Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 10
● Great Depression ● AH.B.1.2 ● I.1.3
American culture during the ● Roaring 20’s
roaring 20s was categorized ● Speakeasy Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry

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 by the Harlem Renaissance, ● Jazz ● AH.B.2.2 ●
the Great Depression, and ● AH.G.1.2
jazz music. Using music, art, ● AH.H.3.2
and literature, students will be
able to identify characteristics
of societal changes during the
1920s.
9 American Identity: Gender ● WWII Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 12
and Race ● Holocaust ● AH.H.1.3 ● I.1.1
● Anti-War movements
How was American identity ● Cold War Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
shaped during WWII? How ● Racism ● AH.H.1.2 ● I.1.5
did views on gender and race ● Sexism ● AH.G.1.3 ● I.1.6
develop during this time? ● Inequality ● AH.C&G.1.4
From the Cold War to the
anti-war movement, students
will be able to identify what
ways American society
developed its views on gender
and race
10 American Identity: ● Bill Clinton Key NCS Objective: Key NCS: Inquiry 13
Contemporary ● George Bush ● AH.C&G.2.1 ● I.1.5
● Iraqi War
Students will be able to ● 9/11 Other NCS Objectives: Other NCS: Inquiry
identify the impacts that the ● 2008 Recession ● AH.C&G.1.2 ● I.1.3
Civil Rights movement had on ● Donald Trump ● AH.C&G.1.1
society and American Identity,
to Bill Clinton’s 9/11, George
Bush and international affairs,
Barack Obama 2008
Recession, the presidency of

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Donald J. Trump and the usage
of technology in politics.
Flex Time 2
Final Exam Review 5
Final Exam Administration 2
Loss of Instructional Days 3
Total 90

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