Download US History Scope and Sequence Overview 1st Nine

Specialized Support US History Scope and Sequence
1st Nine Weeks Period
Units of Study: Westward Expansion, The Gilded Age, The Progressive Era, and America Becomes a World Power
Essential Questions / Desired Outcomes
1. Discuss how the westward expansion affected migration and immigration on American society?
2. How have the contributions of minorities impacted the U.S. society?
3. What impact has science, mathematics and technology had on the daily life of U.S. citizens?
4. How did the Railroads and Homestead Act contribute to the closing of the frontier?
5. What were the positive and negative effects of industrialism?
6. How did urbanization change the lives of many Americans?
7. What effect did the Great Migration have on the United States?
8. How did the relationship between government and business change during the Progressive Era?
9. Describe how the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 shaped the monetary policy of the United States?
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Group 2
Group 3
Westward Expansion
The Gilded Age & Progressive Era
American Becomes a World
Power
Classroom Elements
• Locate settlements and observe • Identify the negative and positive
• Describe how American became
(part of every ALE US
patterns in the size and
effects of industrialism and big
a world power.
History classroom
distribution of cities using maps,
business.
• Explain why the United States
district wide) Use this
graphics, and other information. • Explain the effectiveness of labor
entered World War I.
timeline as a guide.
unions at achieving their goals and
• Identify the technological
Implement the elements on • Explain the processes that have
caused cities to grow along
creating positive change for workers.
the chart by the weeks,
innovations in World War I.
indicated, but no later than.
transportation routes, resources
• Describe how immigrants adapted to
• Identify the effects of World
Your students’ progress
that have attracted settlers, and
life in America.
War I.
and readiness should
economic
activities.
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Explain
what
caused
migration
from
•
Describe how technology has
determine if things can
•
Analyze
the
location
of
cities
in
rural
to
urban
areas
in
the
United
changed the way people work,
begin sooner.
the United States including,
States.
and changed communication,
capital cities, and explain their
transportation and recreation.
• Describe various beliefs, customs, and
distribution both past and
tradition of families and explain their
• Describe how household
present.
importance.
tools/appliances have changed
• Identify factors that influence a
the ways families live.
• Explain the significance of selected
society’s ability to control
ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in
• List how technology meets
territory and that shape the
Texas, and the United States.
people’s needs, and describe
domestic and foreign policies of • Explain how people depend on the
how life would be different
the society.
physical environment and its natural
without modern technology.
resources to satisfy their basic needs.
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Key Vocabulary
Terms
Specialized Support US History Scope and Sequence
Identify selected racial, ethnic, • During the rapid industrialization and
and religious groups that settled
urbanization of the United States
in the United States and their
describe how groups used the
reasons for immigration.
American political system to affect
change.
Explain the geographic factors
that influence patterns of • Describe the social, political, and
settlements and the distribution
environment problems Americans
of populations in the United
faced at the turn of the century.
States, past and present.
• Identify problems created by
industrialization.
Identify
the
factors
that
promoted the growth of the
cattle industry.
Describe the economic impact of
the Homestead Act on the
frontier.
Describe the conflicts with the
American Indians as a result of
the massive migration.
settlements, settlers, patterns,
resources, routes, economic,
domestic, foreign, immigration,
migration
customs, traditions, ethnic, culture, trust,
monopoly, Social Darwinism, labor union,
immigrant, urbanization, exclusion,
tenement, ethnic, neighborhoods, child
labor, foreign, transportation, Westward
Movement, resource, opportunity
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Identify examples of technology
used in the home, school, and
businesses.
technology, modern, recreation,
appliances, transportation,
communication imperialism,
nationalism, annexation of
Philippines, Hawaii ,Puerto Rico,
market, empire, corollary, yellow
journalism, Remember the
Maine!, Rough Riders, antiimperialist league, Platt
Amendment, Open-Door Policy of
China Roosevelt Corollary, Big
Stick Policy, Dollar Diplomacy,
Moral Diplomacy, Panama Canal,
invention, device, process, selfdetermination
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Specialized Support US History Scope and Sequence
Stations
Procedure to teach, model & implement:
• Visual tools:/systems to organize
student rotation
• Care and use of materials
• Self-managing behaviors
• How to request assistance
• How to share materials
• Clean-up and storage
• Sharing of accomplishments
Key stations to implement:
Writing Station: journaling, graphing, webbing, illustrating, projects
Literacy station: start to finish books, magazines, books on tape
Experiment Station: salt or clay map, different types of maps, manipulative activities, lab
Vocabulary: word wall activities
Computer Station: web links, united Streaming Video, Power point, web quest
Independent Station: structured activities, extension activities
Communication
Websites
Assessments
Data collection: work samples, anecdotal records, video tape, photographs, teacher made checklist
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