1st Quarter, Unit 1 - Conflicts, Challenges, Change
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand the historical concept of “context” and how the rise of the Atlantic World dramatically changed civilization allowing people to truly become global citizens. Students will also be able to research, investigate, analyze and understand the birth of the many facets of the American identity and its relationship to 17th Century England.
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand the historical concept of “context” and how the rise of the Atlantic World dramatically changed civilization allowing people to truly become global citizens. Students will also be able to research, investigate, analyze and understand the birth of the many facets of the American identity and its relationship to 17th Century England.
1st Quarter, Unit 2 - Early Colonial America
Students will be able to research, investigate, analyze and understand the birth of the many facets of the American identity and its relationship to 17th Century England.
Students will be able to research, investigate, analyze and understand the birth of the many facets of the American identity and its relationship to 17th Century England.
2nd Quarter, Unit 3 - The Meaning of Liberty
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand the roots of American socio/political/economic and cultural beliefs, why it became necessary for Americans to seek their independence and how that struggle gave rise to the concept of American Exceptionalism.
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand the roots of American socio/political/economic and cultural beliefs, why it became necessary for Americans to seek their independence and how that struggle gave rise to the concept of American Exceptionalism.
2nd Quarter, Unit 4 - Confederation or Nation
Students will be able to further investigate and analyze how conflict between opposing political philosophies pertaining to the type of government this new nation should adopt. Students also will understand the debates about the limits and role of government and how to maintain personal liberty by reading tracts from Federalist and Anti-federalists papers as well as introductory writings of political theorists like Montesquieu and Rousseau.
Students will be able to further investigate and analyze how conflict between opposing political philosophies pertaining to the type of government this new nation should adopt. Students also will understand the debates about the limits and role of government and how to maintain personal liberty by reading tracts from Federalist and Anti-federalists papers as well as introductory writings of political theorists like Montesquieu and Rousseau.
3rd Quarter, Unit 5 - Challenges of Expansion
Students will be able to further investigate and analyze how sectional differences created socio/political/economic and cultural conflicts primarily surrounding the moral and legal right to enslave people. By the end of this unit students will be able to understand that cultural tensions surrounding the themes of liberty, rights and political economy grew to crisis proportions with the expansion of the territorial United States leading to the Civil War.
Students will be able to further investigate and analyze how sectional differences created socio/political/economic and cultural conflicts primarily surrounding the moral and legal right to enslave people. By the end of this unit students will be able to understand that cultural tensions surrounding the themes of liberty, rights and political economy grew to crisis proportions with the expansion of the territorial United States leading to the Civil War.
3rd Quarter, Unit 6 - War or Rebellion
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand some of the direct causes of the Civil War and the social, political and economic devastation that the war caused on the entire nation.
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand some of the direct causes of the Civil War and the social, political and economic devastation that the war caused on the entire nation.
4th Quarter, Unit 7 - The promise of Reconstruction
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand the reasons for the initial hopes and successes within the areas of socio/political/economic equality for freed Africans.
By the end of this unit students will be able to investigate, analyze and understand the reasons for the initial hopes and successes within the areas of socio/political/economic equality for freed Africans.
4th Quarter, Unit 8 - U.S. Constitution