Unit 1: Beginnings of America

Know

How the Americas were settled and by whom

Do

Analyze the changes made to the "Americas" once Europeans were introduced

Understand

That people came to the "New World" for a variety of reasons

Key Learning: How did people get to North America

Unit Essential Questions:

Where did people come from?

What culture groups were present when Europeans came to North America?

What caused the Europeans to explore?

How did the Europeans impact North America?

Concept:

The Early Americas

Concept:

North American Cultures in the 1400s

Concept:

Europe and Exploration

Lesson Essential Question:

1. According to scientists and historians, how and when did the first migration to the Americas occur?

2. What kind of cultures developed in Central and South America?

3. What characterized the earliest cultures of North America?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did regional differences among Native Americans shape their diverse cultures?

2. What Native American customs were shared among several groups?

3. How did trading networks link Native American societies?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What changes took place in Europe during the Middle Ages?

2. What happened during the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation?

3. What did Europeans hope to find during the Age of Exploration?

Key Vocabulary:

1. nomad

2. hunter gatherers

3. agricultural revolution

4. Olmec

5. Toltec

6. Maya

7. Aztec

8. Inca

9. pueblo

10. clan

Key Vocabulary:

1. pueblo

2. Iroquois

3. longhouse

4. kinship

5. matrilineal

6. patrilineal

7. division of learning

8. shaman

9. barter

Key Vocabulary:

1. Middle Ages

2. crusades

3. Magna Carta

4. Renaissance

5. Martin Luther

6. Reformation

7. Protestant

8. Queen Isabella

9. caravel

Concept:

Cultures Make Contact

Concept:

European Settlements in North America

Concept:

The English in Virginia

Lesson Essential Question:

1. When did Vikings visit North America, and why was their stay brief?

2. Why were Columbus’s voyages to the Caribbean significant.?

3. What impact did European exploration have on Native Americans?

4. What was the Columbian Exchange and how did it affect both Europe and America?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Which Spanish conquistadors explored North America, and what they were seeking?

2. How did Spain build an empire?

3. What other nations explored North America?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why were the first English colonies established?

2. What helped the Jamestown colony survive?

3. How did Virginia grow and change during the 1600s.

Key Vocabulary:

1. Vikings

2. Leif Erickson

3. Christopher Columbus

4. Tainos

5. colonization

6. Columbian Exchange

Key Vocabulary:

1. Treaty of Tordesillas

2. conquistador

3. Ponce de Leon

4. Hernando Cortes

5. Francisco Coronado

6. missionary

7. Sir Francis Drake

Key Vocabulary:

1. joint stock company

2. John Smith

3. Powhatan

4. Pocahontas

5. John Rolfe

6. headright

7. House of Burgesses

8. indentured servants

9. Bacons Rebellion

Concept:

The Northern Colonies

Concept:

Middle and Southern Colonies

Concept:

Colonial Government and Economy

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why did the Puritans flee England?

2. How did dissent among the Puritans threaten the New England colonies?

3. What was life was like in New England?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What brought about a new era of colonization in America?

2. Why were new southern colonies were founded?

3. Why did the Quakers settle Pennsylvania?

4. Why was Maryland founded?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What is mercantilism?

2. How did the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights affect political developments in the colonies.

3. How did government in the colonies change under the policy of salutary neglect?

4. How did the triangular trade affect both southern and northern economies?

Key Vocabulary:

1. Mayflower Compact

2. Puritans

3. William Bradford

4. John Winthrop

5. Great Migration

6. Roger Williams

7. Anne Hutchinson

8. royal colony

9. Pequot War

10. King Philips War

Key Vocabulary:

1. Quaker

2. William Penn

3. Restoration

4. proprietary colonies

5. James Oglethorpe

6. Lord Baltimore

7. Toleration Act

Key Vocabulary:

1. mercantilism

2. balance of trade

3. Navigation Act

4. Glorious Revolution

5. English Bill of Rights

6. confederation

7. salutary neglect

Concept:

Americas Emerging Culture

Concept:

French and Indian War

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What impact did the Enlightenment have in the colonies?

2. How was the Great Awakening significant?

3. How did the colonies become more diverse in the 1700s?

4. What was life like in colonial America?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did France develop an empire in North America?

2. Why did Spain and England clash in North America?

3. What were the major events in the French and Indian War?

4. What were the effects of the French and Indian War?

Key Vocabulary:

1. triangular trade

2. Middle Passage

3. Cash Crop

4. Eliza Lucas

5. yeoman

Key Vocabulary:

1. enlightenment

2. social contract

3. Great Awakening

Teacher: Baumann

Dates: 8/30 - 9/3

Subject:

MONDAY

Standard:

TUESDAY

Standard:

WEDNESDAY

Standard:

LEQ:

1. According to scientists and historians, how and when did the first migration to the Americas occur?

2. What kind of cultures developed in Central and South America?

3. What characterized the earliest cultures of North America?

LEQ:

1. How did regional differences among Native Americans shape their diverse cultures?

2. What Native American customs were shared among several groups?

3. How did trading networks link Native American societies?

LEQ:

1. What changes took place in Europe during the Middle Ages?

2. What happened during the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation?

3. What did Europeans hope to find during the Age of Exploration?

Instructional Strategies:

 Reflective Discussion, Think/Pair/Share, JigSaw

Methods/Activities:

Group discussion on Beringia, JigSaw/Graphic Organizer on Culture Groups, Daily Quiz

Instructional Strategies:

 JigSaw, Reflective Discussion, Writing to Inform

Methods/Activities:

 JigSaw/GO differences in culture groups, Discussions on trade, paragraph on customs, Daily Quiz

Instructional Strategies:

  Reflective Discussion, Writing to Inform

Methods/Activities:

 Discussion on Europe in Middle Ages, Writing to inform on reasons for exploration, Daily Quiz

Materials:

Chap 1 Section 1

Graphic Organizer

 Section Quiz

Homework: Vocabulary used in story that explains section 1

Materials:

 Chap 1 Section 2

Graphic Organizer

 Section Quiz

Homework: Vocabulary used in story that explains section 2

Materials: 

Chap 1 Section 4

Graphic Organizer

 Section Quiz

Homework: Vocabulary used in story that explains section 4

THURSDAY

Standard:

FRIDAY

Standard:

Additional Information

LEQ:

1. When did Vikings visit North America, and why was their stay brief?

2. Why were Columbus’s voyages to the Caribbean significant.?

3. What impact did European exploration have on Native Americans?

4. What was the Columbian Exchange and how did it affect both Europe and America?

LEQ:

TEST on Chapter 1 "World Before 1600"

Accommodations:

Technology:

Dakota Integration:

Assessments:

Other Activities/Reminders:

Instructional Strategies:   

Reflective Discussion, Writing to Inform

 Methods/Activities: Discussion on European exploration, Writing to inform on Columbus, Daily Quiz

Instructional Strategies:

Multiple Choice, Matching, Essay Test

Methods/Activities: Test

Materials: 

Chap 1 Section 5

Graphic Organizer

 Section Quiz

Homework: Vocabulary used in story that explains section 5

Materials:

 Chapter 1 TEST

Homework: NONE

Teacher: Baumann

Dates: Sept 7 - 10

Subject: US History

MONDAY

Standard:

TUESDAY

Standard:

WEDNESDAY

Standard:

LEQ:

LEQ:

1. Which Spanish conquistadors explored North America, and what they were seeking?

2. How did Spain build an empire?

3. What other nations explored North America?

LEQ:

1. Why were the first English colonies established?

2. What helped the Jamestown colony survive?

3. How did Virginia grow and change during the 1600s.

Instructional Strategies:

Methods/Activities:

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Instructional Strategies:

   Structured Overview, Discussion,  Collaborative Pairs, Summarizing

Methods/Activities:

Before You Read . . . Preview the Main Idea, Reading Focus, and Key Terms and People.

 Teach the Main Idea Activity: Students discuss the Reading Focus questions, and work in pairs to create a time line of the section, using all events with dates, in chronological order

Close:  Students summarize the early exploration and settlement of North America by the Spanish and other Europeans.

Instructional Strategies:

  Structured Overview, Discussion,  Collaborative Pairs, Summarizing

 Methods/Activities:

 Before You Read . . . Preview the Main Idea, Reading Focus, and Key Terms and People.

Teach the Main Idea Activity: Students discuss the Reading Focus questions, and create an outline of the section, using the section red and blue headings as main points, and identifying at least two main ideas under each blue subheading

Close: Guide students in a discussion of the first English colonies in Virginia.

Materials:

Homework:

Materials:

 Vocabulary Builder, Section Quiz

Homework:

Materials:

 Vocabulary Builder, Section Quiz

Homework:

THURSDAY

Standard:

FRIDAY

Standard:

Additional Information

LEQ:

1. Why did the Puritans flee England?

2. How did dissent among the Puritans threaten the New England colonies?

3. What was life was like in New England?

LEQ:

1. What brought about a new era of colonization in America?

2. Why were new southern colonies were founded?

3. Why did the Quakers settle Pennsylvania?

4. Why was Maryland founded?

Accommodations:

Technology:

Dakota Integration:

Assessments:

Other Activities/Reminders:

Instructional Strategies:

Structured Overview, Discussion,  Collaborative Groups, Brainstorming

Methods/Activities:

 Before You Read . . . Preview the Main Idea, Reading Focus, and Key Terms and People

Teach the Main Idea Activity: Students discuss the Reading Focus questions and organize into small groups to discuss and list the reasons the Pilgrims and Puritans came to America, and how they tried to make a better society for themselves.

Close: Guide students in a discussion of the factors that led to the founding of the New England colonies.

Instructional Strategies:

 Structured Overview, Discussion,  Summarizing

Methods/Activities:

Before You Read . . .  Preview the Main Idea, Reading Focus, and Key Terms and People. 

Teach the Main Idea Activity   Students discuss the Reading Focus questions, and create an outline of the section, using the section headings as main points with at least two main ideas under each blue subheading

Close: Students summarize the new wave of colonization that occurred after the English Civil War. 

Materials:

 Vocabulary Builder, Section Quiz

Homework:

Materials:

 Vocabulary Builder, Section Quiz

Homework:

Unit 2: Forming A New Nation

Know

How the United States government was formed

Do

Compare the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution

Understand

That there were many conflicts internally and externally during the formation of the United States

Key Learning: How did the United States begin?

Unit Essential Questions:

What were the cause and effect of the Revolutionary War?

What was the Articles of Confederation and Constitution?

What struggles led to forming a new government?

Who were the leaders of the early United States?

Concept:

The Road to Revolution

Concept:

Declaring Independence

Concept:

Revolutionary War

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why did Great Britain pass new laws in America?

2. How did the colonists responded to the new laws?

3. Why did the First Continental Congress meet?

4. What was the significance of the battles at Lexington and Concord?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What actions did the Second Continental Congress take?

2. How did violence in Boston push the colonies closer to revolution?

3. What revolutionary ideology lay behind the writing of the Declaration of Independence?

4. How did colonists’ reactions to the Declaration of Independence differ?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What groups of people played a part in the Revolutionary War?

2. What major revolutionary battles took place?

3. How did Washington’s leadership influence the course of the Revolutionary War?

Concept:

American Victory

Concept:

Articles of Confederation

Concept:

Drafting a Constitution

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why did France and other European nations assist the Americans?

2. What led to the British surrender at Yorktown?

3. How did the Revolution affect American culture?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What were some key aspects of the new American republic?

2. What was the structure of the new national government?

3. What were the problems the Confederation faced.

4. What did the government accomplish in the Northwest Territory?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What different points of view emerged at the Constitutional Convention?

2. What were the compromises the delegates made at the Constitutional Convention?

3. How did a system of checks and balances prevent any one branch of the federal government from becoming too powerful?

Concept:

Ratifying the Constitution

Concept:

Washington Becomes President

Concept:

Challenges of the 1790s

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What arguments for and against the Constitution were put forth by Federalists and Antifederalists?

2. What ideas were published in The Federalist?

3. Why was adding a Bill of Rights significant in the ratification process.

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What steps did Congress and the president took to organize the new government?

2. What was Alexander Hamilton’s plan to settle the debts?

3. What was the debate over the national bank?

4. How were the first political parties formed?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why did Washington want to remain neutral in response to events in Europe?

2. What conflicts took place in the Northwest Territory?

3. What challenges did John Adams face as president, and what was the XYZ affair?

Concept:

Jeffersons Presidency

Concept:

War of 1812

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why was the transfer of power in the election of 1800 significant?

2. What changes did Jefferson make when he took office?

3. What was the impact of the Louisiana Purchase?

4. How did the role of the Supreme Court changed.

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What violations of American neutrality led to the War of 1812?

2. How did Tecumseh resist American settlers?

3. How did the War of 1812 affect the new nation?

Unit 3: Developing a National Identity

Know

Why people started to feel a sense of pride in the US

Do

Compare the reform movements to the changes needed now

Understand

Why expansion happened and what it caused

Key Learning: How did the United States change in the early 1800s?

Unit Essential Questions:

What were the characteristics of the new American culture?

Why did people feel a sense of pride in the United States?

What did Andrew Jackson do as president?

What changes were needed and who helped make them happen?

Why did the United States need to expand and what was the effect of this expansion?

Concept:

Nationalism

Concept:

Jackson's Presidency

Concept:

Industry in the North/Cotton in South

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What is nationalism?

2. How did nationalism influence foreign policy?

3. What was the Missouri Compromise?

4. What was the significance of the battles at Lexington and Concord?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What led to Jackson becoming President?

2. How did the Indian Removal Act lead to the Trail of Tears?

3. Why was the national bank controversial?

4. What crisis was caused by states rights issues?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What was the Industrial Revolution?

2. What did the Industrial Revolution affect the North?

3. What innovations were made in communications and travel?

4. Why was cotton king in the south

5. How did cotton lead to slavery?

Concept:

New Movements for Change

Concept:

Immigration and Change

Concept:

Women and Reform

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did religion cause change?

2. What changes were made in education?

3. What changes were made in prisons?

4. What are transcendentalism and utopianism?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why did Germans and Irish migrate to the US?

2. What was life like for the new immigrants?

3. What changes were needed because of urbanization and industrialization?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What limits were placed on women in the 1800s?

2. How did women help make change happen?

3. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Concept:

Abolition Movement

Concept:

Manifest Destiny

Concept:

Texas Independence

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What was life like for slaves?

2. How did southerners fight slavery?

3. What were the major developments of the abolition movement?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why did Americans move west?

2. What trails headed west?

3. How did the Gold Rush affect California?

4. What were the effects of expansion on Native Americans?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did the Spanish settle Texas?

2. Why did Americans move to Texas?

3. What was the Texas Revolution and its effects?

Concept:

Mexican American War

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What was the annexation of Texas?

2. What caused the tension between Mexico and the US?

3. What were the cause and effect of the Mexican American War?

Unit 4: The Union in Crisis

Know

What events led to the Civil War

Do

Compare the North and the South during the Civil War

Understand

What Reconstruction all needed to rebuild 

Key Learning: What was the cause and effect of the Civil War?

Unit Essential Questions:

How did the rising tension over slavery lead to a Civil War?

What technology and strategy was used in the Civil War?

What did Abraham Lincoln do as president?

What effect did the Civil War have on the United States?

How did reconstruction put the country back together after the Civil War?

Concept:

Politics of Slavery

Concept:

Sectionalism and Politics

Concept:

Lincolns Path to the White House

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why was slavery an issue in the United States?

2. Did the Compromise of 1850 settle slavery issues?

3. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act benefit the North and South?

4. How did slavery lead to the Republican Party?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did popular sovereignty lead to violence in Kansas?

2. How did the Election of 1856 show a division in the country?

3. What was the Lecompton Constitution?

4. Who was John Brown and what were his imprints on US history?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How were Lincolns views on slavery different?

2. What was the significance of the Lincoln Douglas debates?

3. What led to Lincoln getting elected in 1860?

Concept:

South Secedes

Concept:

Civil War

Concept:

Reconstruction

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What led to secession of the south?

2. How and why was the Confederacy formed?

3. Why did compromises fail to save the Union?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What were Union and Confederate goals for the war?

2. What were the major battles and leaders of the war?

3. What made many battles so bloody?

4. What were the similarities and differences between the North and South?

5. What led to the end of the War?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What challenges faced the North and South after the war?

2. How did Lincolns Assassination affect the country?

3. How did President Johnson handle reconstruction efforts?

4. What were the "Civil War Amendments"?

5. What was life after slavery like for former slaves?

6. What were the problems that faced reconstruction?

Unit 5: An Industrial Nation

Know

What was life like at the turn of the twentieth century

Do

Compare the first and second industrial revolutions

Understand

Why expansion happened and what it caused

Key Learning: How did the United States change in the late 1800s?

Unit Essential Questions:

Why did the United States need to expand and what was the effect of this expansion?

What were the Indian Wars ?

What was life in the west like?

Who were the pioneers and tycoons in the railroad, oil and steel industries?

What changes took place in labor?

What new inventions changed the way people lived?

What was life like in the early 1900s?

Concept:

Fight for the West

Concept:

Mining and Ranching

Concept:

Farming the Plains

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What caused the conflict between the Native Americans and settlers in the west?

2. What were the consequences of the Indian Wars?

3. How did Native American resistance end?

4. What was the reservation system?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did mining affect the west?

2. What was the cattle boom and what ended it?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What encouraged farmers to move west?

2. Who moved west and why?

3. What new ways of farming evolved?

4. How did the government get involved in farming?

Concept:

Railroads and Industry

Concept:

Big Business

Concept:

Workers Organize

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What important industries developed in the late 1800s?

2. Why did railroads expand?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Why were the late 1800s favorable to business?

2. How did business structure change?

3. Who were the tycoons of industry?

4. What is mass marketing?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What were working conditions like in the late 1800s?

2. How did workers seek change?

3. What was the relationship between labor and business?

Concept:

Age of Invention

Concept:

Immigration

Concept:

Urban Life

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What advance took place in transportation?

2. What inventions changed communications?

3. How did Thomas Edison help shape the modern world?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. Where did the new immigrants come from and go to?

2. Why did the immigrants come to the United States?

3. Who were the Nativists?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did cities change in early 1900s?

2. How did social classes affect how people lived?

3. What were settlement houses?

Concept:

Political Corruption in early 1900s

Concept:

Segregation and Discrimination

Lesson Essential Question:

1. How did political machines run government?

2. What efforts were made to reduce corruption?

3. What was the Populist Movement?

Lesson Essential Question:

1. What legalized discrimination was used ?

2. What informal discrimination was used?

3. Who were the leaders of the black people in the early 1900s?