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| September: | |
| Content and Skills | Interdisciplinary Suggestions |
| Principal Themes: | Principal Text(s): |
| How was North America different from Europe? | Literature Circle: The Crucible (A. Miller) OR The Scarlet Letter (N. Hawthorne) OR Johnny Tremain (E. Forbes) |
| Why did people choose to migrate to the New World? | Secondary Texts: |
| Why did colonists grow dissatisfied with British rule? | Letters of James and Dolley Madison |
| Common Sense - Thomas Paine | |
| A. 13 Colonies | |
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| 1. Differentiate between the economies of the 13 colonies | |
| 2. Identify key geographical features of 13 colonies | |
| 3. Locate the 13 colonies on a blank map | |
| 4. Distinguish between the 3 colonial regions | |
| 5. Evaluate the motives and effects of British colonial laws | |
| B. Declaration of Independence | |
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| 1. Evaluate Jefferson's objectives in drafting and publishing the DOI | |
| 2. Distinguish between the four sections of the DOI | |
| 3. Identify the objective(s) of each section of the DOI | |
| C. Revolutionary War | |
| 1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages held by the Patriots | |
| 2. Identify the advantages and disadvantages held by the British | |
| D. Regents Strategies | |
| 1. Process of Elimination | |
| 2. Quick-scanning | |
| 3. Rewrites and explanations | |
| October | |
| Content and Skills | Interdisciplinary Suggestions |
| Principal Themes: | Principal Text(s): |
| How is the US Federal Government structured? | Literature circle (see September) |
| Why is the Bill of Rights important? | Secondary Texts: |
| How does the USFG respond to threats to its security? | Federalist Papers/Anti-Federalist Papers |
| A. Federalism | |
| 1. Explain how a federalist government is structured | |
| 2. Investigate the debates of the Continental Congress | |
| 3. Describe the problems attendant to a strong federal government and a weak federal government | |
| B. Constitutional Philosophy | |
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| 1. Define limited government, popular soverignty and checks and balances are critical to the American governmental system | |
| 2. Explain how changes are made to the Constitution | |
| C. Structure of the Federal Government | |
| 1. Identify roles of each of the three branches | |
| 2. Explain how the branches check each other's powers | |
| 3. Describe how the federal government takes action | |
| D. Early Threats to the Federal Government | |
| 1. Describe Daniel Shays' Rebellion and how it threatened Federal power | |
| 2. Evaluate the effects of President Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion | |
| E. Bill of Rights | |
| 1. Explain what Constitutional amendments are | |
| 2. Evaluate why Americans believed that Constitutional amendments were important | |
| F. Regents Strategies | |
| 1. compose effective introductions to Document Based Essays using the historical context and task box | |
| 2. Review Multiple Choice strategies and content from September | |
| November | |
| Content and Skills | Interdisciplinary Suggestions |
| Principal Themes: | Principal Text(s): |
| What technological factors enabled Americans to begin to settle away from coasts and major rivers? | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain |
| Why did a market economy begin to develop in the USA in the mid-1800s? | Secondary Texts: |
| What differences existed between North and South, and how did those differences lead to the development of sectionalism? | The Journals of The Voyage of the Corps of Discovery - Meriwether Lewis and John Clark |
| Autobiography of Frederick Douglass | |
| A. Westward Expansion | |
| 1. Evaluate the importance of the Louisiana Purchase to the USA | |
| 2. Summarize Jefferson's principal objectives in making the Louisiana Purchase | |
| 3. Explain how the Erie Canal and the National Road served to open the interior of the USA to trade and settlement | |
| 4. Describe the effects the Monroe Doctrine had on European settlement in the Western Hemisphere | |
| 5. Relate the foreign policies established by the Monroe Doctrine and Washington's Farewell Address | |
| B. Development of the Market Economy | |
| 1. Describe the importance of the development of steam power to American industry and transportation | |
| 2. Analyze why canal construction dropped as railroad construction rose | |
| 3. Evaluate the importance of the development of manufacturing in the Northeast USA to the rise of a market-style economy | |
| C. Sectionalism and Causes of the Civil War | |
| 1. Explain the economic, social, and political differences between North and South | |
| 2. Describe how the Missouri Compromise served to put off the question of Slavery in the USA | |
| 3. Analyze John Brown's motives in Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry | |
| 4. Articulate how sectionalism (and not slavery) was the cause of the Civil War | |
| D. Regents Strategies | |
| December | |
| Content and Skills | Interdisciplinary Suggestions |
| Principal Themes: | Principal Text(s): |
| How did Sectionalism develop and lead to the Civil War? | The Piano Lesson - August Wilson |
| Was the South justified in seceding from the United States? | Secondary Texts: |
| How did the United States try to rebuild the relationship between North and South following the Civil War? | Text of Presidential Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas |
| The Red Badge of Courage - Steven Crane | |
| A. Causes of the Civil War | |
| 1. Summarize the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and its effects | |
| 2. Define sectionalism | |
| 3. Describe how the economic, social, and political differences between North and South made the Civil War inevitable | |
| B. Civil War | |
| 1. describe the advantages and disadvantages held by the Union | |
| 2. describe the advantages and the disadvantages held by the Confederacy | |
| 3. Evaluate Lincoln's motivations for the Emancipation Proclamation | |
| 4. Investigate the reasons for the New York City Draft Riots of 1863 | |
| C. Reconstruction Plans | |
| 1. explain what needed "reconstructing" | |
| 2. summarize the differences between Presidential, Radical, and Congressional Reconstruction plans | |
| 3. Evaluate the importance of a strong federal government in light of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution | |
| D. Regents Strategies | |
| January | |
| Content and Skills | Interdisciplinary Suggestions |
| Principal Themes: | Principal Text(s): |
| How did the advent of Oil and Steel change American industry? | The Jungle - Upton Sinclair |
| What was work like in the United States after the Civil War? | Secondary Texts: |
| What are labor unions, and how did they hope to help workers? | Oil! - Upton Sinclair |
| Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie | |
| Atlas Shrugged OR The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand | |
| Poetry - Workers' Voices | |
| 8 Hours for What We Will - Workers' Song | |
| A. Rise of Industry | |
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| 1. Compare the developments of the 1st industrial revolution with the 2nd | |
| 2. Evaluate the importance of oil and steel to the post-bellum economy | |
| B. New American Economy | |
| 1. Define Laissez-Faire Economics, monopoly, and trust | |
| 2. Describe how the labor of American workers shifted from skilled labor to manufacturing | |
| 3. Define Social Darwinism, and relate it to the growth of Robber Barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller | |
| 4. Evaluate the importance of cross-country railroads and the homesteading system | |
| 5. Evaluate what motivated the federal government to allow laissez faire economic policy to offer such great assistance to big business | |
| C. Rise of Labor Unions | |
| 1. Define labor unions, and describe their principal objectives | |
| 2. Explain why government tended to support management in early industrial conflict | |
| 3. Compare and contrast the conflicts at Haymarket and Homestead | |
| 4. Interpret the role the Federal Government played in industrial negotiations between unions and management | |
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| D. Regents Strategies |
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