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Teacher’s Name: Andy Vanfossan
August
September
Building: High School
Content
Skills
Chapter 4-7 Expansion of
American Industry/ The Gilded
Age
Chapter 6: Politics, Immigration
and Urban Life
-Identify key people & events.
-Describe the key elements of
the foundations of the country
-Analyze how technology &
less government regulation
affected the American
economy.
-Compare fact and myth in the
American west.
Chapter 7: Daily Life in the
Gilded Age
Chapter 8: Becoming a World
Power
Chapter 9: The Era of
Progressive Reform
Chapter 10: World War I
Chapter 10 World War I
Chapter 11: the 20’s
December
-Identify key people & events
-Evaluate the effects of
isolationism.
October
November
Identify key people & events.
-Compare lifestyles for upper
& lower class city dwellers.
-Evaluate the effects of
education on American
minority groups.
-Analyze America’s new role
as an economic and military
superpower.
-Compare the different U.S.
administrative views on dealing
with social problems.
Chapter 11: The 20’s
Chapter 12: The Crash and the
Great Depression
Chapter 13: the New Deal
Identify key people & events
-Compare rural and city life in
the 1920’s.
-Analyze the societal effects of
the development of electricity
- How did people’s life change
during the depression
-Identify key people & events
Grade: 10
Subject/Course: U.S. History
Essential
Questions
Assessment
- How did the influx of the
immigrant population help shape
the 20th century?
-How did industrial progress
affect labor relations?
-What conflicts of daily life
occurred as Americans moved
west of the Mississippi?
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-What were the social,
economic, and political divisions
that materialized in the cities?
-Describe the social & cultural
changes in the U.S. – especially
for women and black
Americans.
-What effects did imperialism
have on the U.S. and the world?
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
-How did reform-minded
citizens of the U.S. create lasting
effects on American society?
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
-What moral & commercial
ideals led the U.S. into the world
crisis of “The Great War?”
-How did the variety of new
styles, tastes, and manners cause
cultural conflict in the “Roaring
20’s?”
-How did the apparent healthy
economic situation in America
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
-Semester Assessment
-Chapter Tests
-Evaluate the effects of the rise
& fall of the economy.
change to one headed for
danger?
-Evaluate the positive &
negative aspects of the New
Deal.
-What social and economic
effects did the New Deal have
for America and the World?
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
-‘Magazine’
Teacher’s Name: Andy Vanfossan
Building: High School
Content
Skills
-Identify key people & events
January
February
March
Chapter 14: World War II
Chap. 15 – World War II at
Home (1939-1945)
Chap. 16 – The Cold War
(1945-1960)
Chap. 18 – The Kennedy &
Johnson Years (1961-1968)
Chap. 19 – The Civil Rights
Movement (1954-1968)
April
Chap. 21 – The Vietnam War &
American Society (1960-1974)
Chap. 22-23 – Nixon, Ford, and
Carter (1969-1979)
May
Chap. 24-25 – The Conservative
Revolution – present era
Grade: 10
Subject/Course: U.S. History
Essential
Questions
- How did circumstances lead to
American involvement in World
War II and its aftermath?
-Analyze the global effects &
responsibilities of conflicting
nations.
Assessment
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
-Alternative Assessments
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
- Read “Animal Farm”
-Evaluate war efforts from the
home front.
Identify key people & events
-Compare the ideologies of the
US and the USSR in post-war
Europe
-Analyze the booming post-war
economy & its effects on
society.
-Explain how America
mobilized for war at home and
describe specific roles that were
played.
-How did the United States react
to the influence of the USSR and
post-war problems throughout
the world?
-How did America’s economic
and moral outlook change during
the post-war era through 1960?
-Evaluate the success of the
Kennedy/Johnson
economic/civil rights platform.
-Identify key people & events
-How did the social
environment of the 1960’s lead
to challenges for the
Kennedy/Johnson years?
-How did the non-violent and
violent means of civil rights
change affect political decisions
during the years of 1954-1968?
-Chapter Tests
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Study Guides
-Video Questions
-Alternative Assessments
-How did the Vietnam Conflict
divide the social/political
landscape of America?
-How did the United States deal
with the domestic and foreign
challenges of the Nixon, Ford,
and Carter administrations?
-Chapter Tests
-Note Quizzes
-Section Reviews
-Participation
-Worksheets
-Map Activities
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Chapter Tests
-Note Quizzes
-Participation
-Evaluate the progress of civil
rights reform.
-Evaluate the government
response to Vietnam.
Identify key people & events
-Compare the successes &
failures of President Nixon,
Ford, and Carter.
-Identify key people & events
-Compare the successes &
-How did modern conservatism
of the Reagan and G.W. Bush
administrations clash with that
(1980- present )
failures of President Nixon,
Ford, and Carter.
-Analyze the effects of
conservatism & liberalism in
the 80’s and 90’s.
-Analyze how the mistakes of
the 80’s and 90’s have led to
international problems today
of the Clinton administration?
-Worksheets
-Map Activities
-Various Readings
-Vocabulary Terms
-Semester Assessment