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Course Title:
Course Length:
History
U.S. History 8
1 Year
PUPIL INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: The pupil should/ will be able to:
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Study and discuss history from a distinctly Christian worldview.
Place themselves (by imagination, of course) into the situations that they are studying so that the
events and people of history seem real to them
Begin to point to similarities and differences in particular historical situations by the process of
abstraction
Understand (on a very basic level) the disciplinary connections between history, economics,
geography, etc.
Point to (reasonable) connections between American history and the cultural context in which
they are presently living –late twentieth century America
Explore the art and literature of many of the periods we study, looking for relationships between
culture and its artifacts
Express an understanding of the basic principles that are the basis of American democracy, and
the fact that they were well conceived, but not consistently applied in our history
Explain the environment in the U.S. leading up to the American Civil War
Identify and describe the main events (battles, etc.) that comprise the American Civil War
Describe the condition and problems of the post Civil War United States, especially in the south
– the need for Reconstruction
Understand and explain the development of the U.S. into a leading industrial state and world
power between the American Civil War and the first World War.
Explain the causes, courses, consequences, and the resolutions of both world wars
Describe the causes of the Great Depression and assess the success/failure of FDR’s New Deal
policies
Express an understanding of the Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR including major
events and people
Describe the major people and events of the Civil Rights movement
Gain a basic understanding of the Vietnam War (if time permits at the end of the year)
A basic understanding of the roots of modern America and a look at important issues ahead (if
time permits at end of the year
COURSE RESOURCES:
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The American Journey: Modern Times. Appleby et al. Glencoe Publishing, 2012
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America the Story of Us. The History Channel
Maps – European and American (especially showing the progress of time)
Excerpts of selected American literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Claude McKay, Hawthorne,
Whitman, Frost, etc.)
PUPIL EVALUATION:
Essays
Unit tests
Cumulative semester exams
Stories and other pieces of creative writing
Major Research Paper – cooperative assignment with English
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Course:
U.S. History 8
Length:
1 Year
INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS/INTEGRATION PHILOSOPHY:
History may be thought of as a story. In this conception, the important people, places, and events of
history are analogous to basic story elements like beginning, end, characters, setting, plot, etc. When it
is presented to them in this way, students begin to see relationships between the events of history that
they were not previously equipped to see. We are all accustomed to stories – in fact, I believe that story
is one of the fundamentally important ways in which humans understand and interpret their world. The
history-as-story metaphor may not seem on the surface to be a way of integrating faith and the teaching
of history, but it is. God is the author of this story – His sovereign hand guides the events of history
from the very beginning (creation), through the central point (incarnation/resurrection), to the very end
(consummation). This conception has the added benefit of providing its own historiography. History is
linear, with an existence in time that does not limit its eternal author’s ability to act within it.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The history course intended to introduce students to the concept of history as story, as outlined above. It
should quickly move beyond introduction into illustration, as it surveys American history from the
westward expansion of the nineteenth century up to World War II (and as far beyond as time allows).
The course is organized by its texts into four basic units (one per quarter), each of which contains
several component units.
1. Civil War/Reconstruction covers the sequence of events that led to the Civil War, the main events
(battles, etc.) that comprise the Civil War, the problems of the reconstruction period in the South, and
the migration West that began before the Civil War and continued through it.
2. An Age of Extremes covers Mark Twain’s description “the Gilded Age,” the economics of post Civil
War America (monopolies, the rise of labor, etc.)
3. War, Peace, and All that Jazz covers the causes, courses, consequences, and resolutions of both world
wars, from the league of nations to the cold war
4. Cold War and Modern America – looks at the battles for world dominance between the U.S. and the
USSR after WWII and the emergence of modern United States
The course should be geared toward helping students establish an understanding of what history is, what
it means for people to “do history,” and why it is important. In order to do this, the course should help
students to understand (on a very basic level) the disciplinary connections between history,
anthropology, economics, geography, etc. It will also build on skills developed in the previous year of
U.S. History, encouraging more independent work (projects, papers, and the like).
Scope and Sequence, First Quarter
Units/Weeks
First Quarter
Unit 1
Antebellum America
Concepts/Principles
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Unit 2
The Civil War
(3 Weeks)
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Compromises to
slavery issue
(Missouri, 1850,
etc)
Bleeding Kansas
Creation of
Republican Party
Dred Scott court
case
Lincoln Douglass
Debates
Secession
Fort Sumter
Fugitive Slave
Act
Strengths/Weaknesses of North
& South
Life for Soldiers
during the War
Major Battles
(Antietam,
Chancellorsville,
Shiloh,
Gettysburg,Vicksburg,
Fredericksburg,
etc)
Generals
Emancipation
Proclamation
Gettysburg
Address
Women’s roles in
war
Activities
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Reading/quizzes
Lecture / note
taking
Discussion
(formal,
structured,
teacher directed)
Writing
assignments
Test
Slavery Debate
Reading/quizzes
Lecture / note
taking
Discussion
(formal, informal,
student
generated)
Writing
assignments
Review game
Test
Civil War
Activity Day
Memorization of
Gettysburg
Address
Slavery Debate
Materials/Resources
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et al
Maps
Various handouts
The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et al.
America the
Story of Us: Civil
War
Maps
Various handouts
Selected
literature
Copies of
Gettysburg
Address &
Emancipation
Proclamation
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Unit 3
Reconstruction
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Unit 4
The “Wild” West
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54th
Massachusetts
Sherman’s March
to the Sea
Total War
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Different
Reconstruction
Plans
Lincoln’s
Assassination
Black Codes
14th & 15th
Amendments
Radical
Republicans
Pres. Andrew
Johnson
(impeachment)
Scalawags and
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
Pres. Grant
Pres. Rutherford
B. Hayes
Jim Crow &
Segregation
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Gold Fever
(boomtowns and
mines)
Transcontinental
Railroad
Indian Conflicts
(Little Bighorn,
Wounded Knee,
etc)
Reservations vs.
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Reading / quizzes
Lecture / notetaking
Discussion
Writing
assignments
Review game
Test
Reading
Discussion
Test
Plains Indians
Research Project
Video clips
Lecture/Notes
Worksheets
Powerpoint on
The Wonderful
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
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America the
Story of Us:
Heartland
Various handouts
The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et al.
Various handouts
Library resources
for research
project
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Assimilation
Homesteaders
Oklahoma Land
Rush
Populist Party
Pres. McKinley
Wizard of Oz as a
political analogy
Scope and Sequence, Second Quarter
Units/Weeks
Second Quarter
Unit 5
The Industrial Age
(2.5 Weeks)
Concepts/Principles
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Unit 6
Cities
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Railroad Barons
New Inventions
Inventors
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Factors of
Production
John D.
Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Vertical &
Horizontal
Integration
Robber Barons or
Industrial
Philanthropists?
Working
Conditions
Labor Unions
New Immigrants
Ellis & Angel
Island
Settling in
America
Nativist
Movement
(social &
political)
Cities in the late
1800s (classes,
problems, &
changes)
Gilded Age
Education, Art,
and Leisure
during late 1800s
Activities
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Materials/Resources
Reading/quizzes
Lecture / note
taking
Discussions
(formal &
informal)
Informal debate
Assembly Line
activity
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Reading / quizzes
Lecture / note
taking
Discussion
Writing
assignments
Tests
Historical Fiction
Novel
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
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American the
Story of Us:
Boom
Various handouts
The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
America the
Story of Us:
Cities
Various handouts
Maps
Land of Hope. By
Joan Lowery
Nixon
Unit 7
Progressive Era
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Unit 8
Rise to World Power
(2 Weeks)
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Political
Machines &
Bosses
Muckrakers
Regulating
businesses
17th Amendment
Suffragist
Movement
Social Reforms
Temperance
movement
Pres. Teddy
Roosevelt
Conservationism
Pres. Taft
Pres. Wilson
Discrimination &
fight for equality
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Isolationism
Expansionism
Imperialism
Open Door
Policy
Annexation of
Hawaii
Japan
SpanishAmerican War
Rough Riders
Yellow
Journalism
FilipinoAmerican War
Panama Canal
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Reading / quizzes
Lecture / note
taking
Discussion
Test
Review Game
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Lecture/Notes
Quizzes
Test
Handouts
Board game
project
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times
Various handouts
Maps
Selected
literature (Upton
Sinclair, Ida
Tarbell, etc)
The American
Journey: Modern
Times
Various handouts
Maps
Scope and Sequence, Third Quarter
Units/Weeks
Third Quarter
Unit 9
WWI & the U.S.
Concepts/Principles
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Unit 10
The Roaring Twenties
(2 Weeks)
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Causes of WWI
New
Technologies of
WWI (weapons,
communications,
etc)
Propaganda
U-boats
Bolshevik
Revolution
Doughboys &
U.S. fighting in
WWI
Homefront
during WWI
Treaty of
Versailles
Wilsons’ 14
Points
League of
Nations
Red Scare
Anarchism
Great Migration
President
Harding
President
Coolidge
Isolationism
Consumerism
Age of
Automobile
Cultural changes
of 1920s
Lost Generation
Harlem
Activities
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Materials/Resources
Reading/quizzes
Lecture/notetaking
Discussion
Review game
Test
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Readings
Writing
assignments
Lecture/Notes
Quizzes
Test
Stock Market
Simulation
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
Various handouts
Maps
American the
Story of Us
The American
Journey: Modern
Times
Various handouts
Selected
literature
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Unit 11
Great Depression
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Unit 12
World War II
(2.5 Weeks)
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Renaissance
Prohibition
Nativism
Fundamentalism
Stock Market
Crash
Causes of Great
Depression
Hoover’s
Reactions
FDR
First 100 Days
New Deal
Life during Great
Depression
Entertainment
(escapism and
social critique)
Criticism of New
Deal
Second New
Deal
European
dictators
Blitzkrieg
Winston
Churchill
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
American
mobilization at
home
Women and
minorities during
war
Japanese
internment camps
Battles and
campaigns of
WWII (N. Africa,
Europe, Pacific)
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Reading/quizzes
Lecture/ note
taking
Quizzes
Discussion
Review Game?
Essay Stock
Market
Simulation (Unit
10, and
knowledge from
current chapter)
Test
Readings
Lectures/Notes
Quizzes
Test
Review Game
Discussions
Informal debate
on dropping
atomic bomb
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
Various handouts
Selected
literature
Worksheets
The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
American the
Story of Us:
WWII
Various handouts
Maps
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D-Day
Holocaust
Island Hopping
A-Bomb
Nagasaki &
Hiroshima
Scope and Sequence, Fourth Quarter
Units/Weeks
Fourth Quarter
Unit 13
The Cold War Begins
(2 Weeks)
Concepts/Principles
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Unit 14
Civil Rights
(2 Weeks)
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President Truman
United Nations
Marshall Plan
Berlin
China (Mao
Zedong)
Red Scare
McCarthyism
Fair Deal
Korean War
Pres. Eisenhower
Consumer
Society
Materialism
Khrushchev
NAACP
Brown v. Board
Integration
Rosa Parks
MLK Jr.
Civil
Disobedience
JFK
Lyndon B.
Johnson
Great Society
Civil Rights Act
Freedom Rides
Key Civil Rights
Events
Malcolm X
Equal Rights
Amendment
Sandra Day
O’Connor
Activities
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Reading
Lecture/Notes
Quizzes
Discussion
Writing
assignments
Test
Review Game
Readings
Quizzes
Lecture/notes
Discussion
Debate
Writing
assignments
Tests
Materials/Resources
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
American the
story of Us:
Superpower
Various handouts
Maps
The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
Various handouts
Selected
literature
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Unit 15
Vietnam War
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(2.5 Weeks)
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Unit 16
Modern America
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Latin American
and Indian
American rights
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JFK foreign
policies
Cuba (Bay of
Pigs)
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile
Crisis
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
SEATO
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
Vietcong
Napalm
Agent Orange
Protest
Movement
Tet Offensive
President Nixon
Watergate
Paris Peace
Accords
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Reading
Lecture
Discussion
Debate – Should
U.S. be fighting
in Vietnam?
Writing
assignments
Test
Carter Presidency
Iran hostage
crisis
Pres. Reagan
Reaganomics
Pres. Bush
Iran-Contra
End of the Cold
War
Persian Gulf War
Pres. Clinton
Pres. G.W. Bush
9/11
Terrorism
Hurricane
Katrina
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Lectures/Notes
Readings
Quizzes
Discussions
Test
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The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
Various handouts
Maps
Selected
literature
The American
Journey: Modern
Times. Appleby
et. Al.
American the
Story of Us:
Millennium
Various handouts
Maps
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Obama’s election