High School
Key Concept
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Major Ideas
Standards
Reporting Category #1 - The Rise of Industrial America and the Progressive Era (1877 -1920)
Duration
(days)
%
22
27%
Fall 2015
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
August 3rd - September 2nd
Recommend State Readings: "Cross of Gold" - William Jennings Bryan , "Hull House" - Jane Addams, "The Gospel of Wealth" - Andrew Carnegie
Recommended Constructed Response topics:
II. Explanation of the signifcant individual roles during the Progressive Era
III. Explanation of the events leading to the U.S. invovlement in World War I. Include in your arguement a counter claim against intervention.
Reconstruction effects in TN and
the United States
Industrialism and it's effects
Gilded Age: Problems and
philosophies
End of Reconstruction (1876 Election), Jim
Crow Laws, Disenfranchisement,
U.S.2 and U.S.3
Exodusters, Tennessee Constitutional
Convention of 1870
Inventors and Industrial leaders,
Migration patterns, Rural to Urban,
U.S.1, U.S.6,
Regional specialization, New Immigration U.S.7, and U.S.9
and their impact
U.S. 4, U.S. 5,
Gilded Age corruption, powerful trusts,
U.S. 8, U.S. 9,
monopolies, currency, living and working U.S. 10, U.S. 13,
conditions, labor movements
U.S. 14, and U.S.
15
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
2
Articles discussing the
Classroom discussion on KKK readings development of the
and close reading for the Radicals and KKK and Radicals and Americans through
Rebels and Thrown from the Train
rebels and Thrown Time: Life as a Slave
chapters
from the train excerpt
from THFK publication
3
Maps detailing
Industrial
Development in Cities,
UNRAAVEL format for On Wealth
Graphs demonstrating
Article, SOAPStone (Identify Speaker, ethnic changes and
Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject,
sepration in cities
Comparison Essay:
and Tone) for Wealth vs. Poverty,
Carnegie's Gospel on Carnegie vs. George
Graphic Organizer - Industrial Leaders
Wealth , Henry
and Technology
George's Wealth vs.
Povert, History
Channel's The Men
Who Built America
4
Images of Jacob Riis
How the Other Half
Lives , Politcal Cartoons
Americans through
based on Gilded Age
Time: Life in the
corruption Cities
Gilded Age
episode of History
Channel's The Story of
Us.
Breaking down Political cartoon
activity, Video mark up for Cities
Created July 2015
High School
Key Concept
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Major Ideas
Standards
Duration
(days)
%
Fall 2015
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
Recommend State Readings: "Atlanta Exposition" - Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folks" - W.E.B. Dubois, "The New Nationalism" - Theodore Roosevelt, "The Jungle" - Upton Sinclair, "The Shame
of Cities" - Lincoln Steffens, "The History of Standard Oil"
Progressive Era: Solving the
problems of the Guilded Age
Populism and the Grange movement,
U.S. 12, U.S. 15,
labor unions, progressive ammendments U.S. 17, U.S. 18,
and political changes
and U.S. 21
Progressive Presidents
The Square Deal, trust busting, consumer
U.S. 19 and U.S.
protection, conservation, New Freedom,
20
banking
4
UNRAAVEL format for The National
Grange reading, Graphic Organizer
for Labor Unions
2
Graphic Organizer for election of
1912, Comparison of Progressive
presidents
Cross of Gold excerpt,
The National Grange
Movement reading, Cause / Effect Chart:
Tennessee's
Problems & Solutions
"Progressive Era"
excerpt
Federal Reserve
materials, Videos on
Progressive
Movements
Americans through
Time: Progressives
bring change
Recommend State Readings: "The March of the Flag" - Albert Beveridge, "The Fourteen Points" - Woodrow Wilson, "Anti-Imperialism Writings" - Mark Twain
Imperialism: Causes, Consequences,
Presidential policies
Causes of imperialism, areas of U.S.
interest, Spanish-American War,
diplomatic policies
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
U.S. 22, U.S. 23,
U.S. 24, and U.S.
25
3
Cause / Effect analysis of American
Imperialism, Map Activity for U.S.
involvement overseas, Political
cartoon breakdown for Big Stick
Diplomacy, Graphic Organizer
detailing Progressive President's
foreign policies.
Beveridge's Argument
for Annexation, AntiImperialist Leagues
statements, A View of Argumentative Essay:
the Spanish American Beveridge vs. AnitWar , Pulitzer's A Call
Imperialist
to Action, Maps citing
U.S. imperialism across
the Globe.
Created July 2015
High School
Key Concept
World War I: Neutrality to
interventions and Effects
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Major Ideas
Standards
Causes of WWI, reasons for intervention,
trench warfare, technological
U.S. 26, U.S. 27,
advancements, individuals, the American
U.S. 28, U.S. 29,
homefront, Schenck vs. the US , the
and U.S. 30
Fourteen Point plan, Treaty of Versailles,
the Senate's reaction
Reporting Category #2 -The 1920's and the Great Depression (1920 - 1940)
Duration
(days)
%
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
Schenck v. The United
States , Wilson's 14
Point plan, Lodge's I. Americans through
Breaking down images of World War
Response to the Treaty Time: Life at home
I, UNRAAVEL format for Treaty of
of Versailles,
during the War
Versailles, SOAPStone for Lodge's
Propaganda Images for II. Protest or Not:
response, Court case organizer for
the American
Applying Schenk vs.
Schenck v. The United States
Homefront, War and
The US
Epidemic excerpt from
THFK.
4
12
Fall 2015
20%
September 3rd - September 23rd
Recommended Constructed Response topics:
VII. Analyze the contributions of Tennessee in the development of the history of the United States.
2
Images from Ford's
assembly plants,
Charts comparing the
production cost of
Cause and Effect: Ford's Assembly
automotive factories,
Line and Model T change US society,
Reading excerpts on
Explain how mass production led to
Ford's motivation in
new and cheaper consumer products
business, excerpts
from the Men Who
Built America detailing
The New Machine
Pro / Con chart for
Mass Production
Graphic Organizer: Challenging
Reading excerpts
traditional beliefs and values, Explain including Vanzetti's
the effects of nativism (KKK, quotas,
final words, Harlem
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial) , Analyze
Renaissance, and the
literature from the Harlem
Lost Generation, Trails
Renaissance and Lost Generation
and Trials from THFK
Americans through
Time: Life in the
1920's
1920's: Mass Production and Media
Growth of the entertainment industry,
mass production, technological
advancements, and consumer products
U.S. 31, U.S. 32,
U.S. 34, U.S. 43,
and U.S. 44
1920's: Social, Politcal, and Cultural
issues
Traditionalism vs. Modernism,
Prohibition, Nativist reactions, political
changes, effects on minorities, Scopes
trial, Harlem Renissance, and the Lost
Generation
U.S. 35, U.S. 36,
U.S. 37, U.S. 38,
U.S. 39, U.S. 40,
U.S. 41 and U.S.
42
3
Key Concept
Major Ideas
Standards
Duration
(days)
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
%
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
Created July 2015
High School
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Fall 2015
Recommend State Readings: "Rugged Individualism" - Herbert Hoover, "First Inaugural Address" - Franklin Roosevelt
3
Analyze causes of the Great
Charts detailing
Depression, Debate which had the
economic situations
largest impact; Analyze photos of the before and after the
Dust Bowl; Create a journal entry
Great Depression,
from the perspective of a migrant
Reading excerpt from
farmer, citing specific items from the
John Steinbeck,
photos, UNRAAVEL format for the
Images from the Dust
Bonus Army
Bowl
New Deal Organizations, Cumberland
U.S. 49, U.S. 50,
homesteads, critics of the New Deal, and
and U.S. 53
the Court packing plan
4
Reading excerpt from
Social Security Frances Perkins,
Discuss impact of the New Deal:
Propaganda images for
Graphic organizer on who was helped
Graphic Organizer:
the New Deal
by each program; T-Chart: Positives
New Deal Programs
Organizations,
and Negatives of the New Deal-Create
and their Effects
Speeches from FDR
modern New Deal Program
fireside chats and
Congressional
Addresses
Reporting Category #3 - U.S. Policy between the Wars, World War II, and the Cold War (1921 1975)
11
The Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
Causes, the Stock Market crash, Effects,
Hoover's policies, the Bonus Army, and
the Dust Bowl
U.S. 45, U.S. 46
and U.S. 48
25%
Americans through
Time: Surviving the
Great Depression
September 24th - October 16th
Recommend State Readings: "The Announcement of the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb" - Harry S. Truman, "Letter to President Roosevelt" - Albert Einstein, :"Quarantine Speech" Franklin Roosevelt, "Four
Freedoms" - Franklin Roosevelt, "Announcement of War with Japan 1941" Franklin Roosevelt
Recommended Constructed Response topics :
VI. Explain the impact of World War II on the social and economic issues of the United States.
VIII. Evaluate the lasting impact of World War II on the World.
U.S. Diplomacy: Isolation to
Intervention
Key Concept
U.S. 54, U.S. 55,
Isolationism, Neutraility, and Intervention U.S. 56, U.S. 57,
and U.S. 58
Major Ideas
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
Standards
Create timeline leading up to WWIISpeech excerpts from
Explain how event led to another;
FDR's path to
Analyze FDR speeches-Explain how his
intervention
speeches changed over time
2
Duration
(days)
%
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Disscussion: Could
War have been
prevented?
Assessment
Created July 2015
High School
World War II: Key People and
Events
World War II: Social Changes amd
Technological Advancements
U.S. History Pacing Guide
U.S. 59, U.S. 60,
Maps and strategies, Key leaders, and the
U.S. 62, and U.S.
creation of the United Nations
72
The role of women, Bracero program,
rationing and bond drives, migration,
technology and medical advancements,
and the Manhattan project
U.S. 64, U.S. 66,
and U.S. 67
Fall 2015
3
Images from najor
events of World War II,
Visual aids and maps of WWII;
Documents from the
Pair/Small groups report on impact of conferences during
specific individuals and events
World War II, Maps
detailing major
theatres of war
2
Movie clip for Thwe
Story of Us- World War
Graphic organizer: The role of women,
II, Propaganda activies,
blacks, hispanics, Indians in WWIIAmericans through
Reading excerpt from
Post-war roles, social changes, and
Time: Life during
Truman's decision,
stagnation; Analyze decision to drop
World War II
Reading Excerpt from
the bomb, debate their validity
THFK Tanks with
Flowers
Timeline Activity:
World War II's
multiple theatres
Recommend State Readings: "Farwell Address" Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Rice University Address" - John F. Kennedy, "1961 Inaugual Address" - John F. Kennedy, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" - George
Kennan
The Cold War: Containtment, Areas
of Intervention, and the Red Scare
origins of competition, presidential
policies, the Red Scare, McCarthyism,
Korean War, and the 38th parallel
The Cold War: Brinkmanship, Cuba,
amd Vietnam
The effects of Nuclear arms, foreign
diplomacy between the U.S. and Cuba,
the Vietnam War, presidential policies
effecting the war, impact on the
homefront, the Draft, and Protest
Key Concept
Major Ideas
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
2
Excerpt from George F.
Kennan detailing
Visual Aid-Truman Doctrine: Map
Containment,
used to show areas in the world the
Argumetative Essay:
Speeches from
U.S. became involved in due to
Is McCarthyism alive
McCarthy, Images
containment; Timeline: Espionage in
today?
from HUAC, Maps
the USA and McCarthyism
detailing American
Involvement
U.S. 78, U.S. 79,
U.S. 80, U.S. 81
2
Movie Excerpt from
Thirteen Days, Images
UNRAAVEL format for Atoms for
from Vietnam, Charts
Peace, Timeline for post-World War II
describing U.S. Citizen
interventions, Timeline Activity for
miltary involvement
Kennedy's cold war involvement
during the Cold War,
Duck and Cover video
Standards
Duration
(days)
U.S. 73, U.S. 74,
U.S. 76, and U.S.
77
%
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Comparison Essay:
Presidential
approaches to the
Cold War
Assessment
Created July 2015
High School
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Reporting Category #4 -The Post War Years to Contemporary United States (1945 - the Present)
22
28%
Fall 2015
October 17th - December 4th
Recommended Constructed Response topics:
I. Continuity and Change essay on Civil Rights throughout history. Ideas to be included: major figures and major events that shifted the ways that changed the United States,
IV. Evaluate the role of the President throughout the history of the United States citing Theordore Roosevelt, WIlliam Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson
V. Analysis of continuity and changes for the United States economy including industrialism, the Great Depression, the World Wars, and the Post-World War II era.
Consumerism, White-Collar Jobs,
The Economic development of the
Suburban Ideal, G.I. Bill, Technology
U.S. 82, U.S. 84,
United States in the Post-World
including medicine, agriculture, highways,
US.87
War II Era
development of labor unions
Post War Cultural development
Presidential Policies (Part I)
Baby-boom, Television and mass media,
youth culture, Music in TN
U.S. 83, U.S. 85,
U.S. 86
Kennedy's New Frontier, Johnson's Great U.S. 88, U.S. 96,
Society, Nixon's Silent Majority
U.S. 98
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
2
1
2
Images of a
Levitttown, Video
Superpower excerpt of
Image breakdown for Levittowns,
the Story of Us, Charts
Comparison Chart:
Map Activity focused on Interstae
detailing College
Economy before and
system, Cause/Effect analysis of G.I.
enrollment pre and
After World War II
Bill introduction
post World War II and
Consttrution of
Eisenhower's
Interstate system
Listening Activity for Tennessee's
contribution for the Entertainment
Industry, Use of Charts activity for
understanding the Baby Boom.
Music State USA
excerpts from THFK,
Sounds from Music
developed in TN,
Americans through
Charts detailing the
Time: Life in the
pace of the Baby Boom
1950's
generation
development, Elvis'
appearance on Ed
Sullivan Show
Kennedy's Innagural
Graphic organizer detailing
Address, Charts
Presdential domestic agendas,
describing the effect of Comparison Essay:
UNRAAVEL format for Johnson's Great
Johnson's Great
FDR & LBJ vs. Nixon
Society, Speech breakdown for
Society programs, Map
& Goldwater
Kennedy's Innauguration Address of Nixon's involvement
overseas.
Created July 2015
High School
Key Concept
Civil Rights in the Post War World Events
Civil Rights in the Post War World Individuals
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Major Ideas
Standards
Court Cases, Columbia Race Riots, Tent
Cities, Highlander Folk School, Advocay
Groups, Integration of Public Education,
March on Washington, Nashville Sit-ins,
Legislation
Advocates, Opposition, and Reading
Excerpts
U.S. 89, U.S. 92,
U.S 94
U.S. 90, U.S. 91,
U.S. 93
Duration
(days)
%
Fall 2015
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
3
Southern Manifesto, A
Breakdown of the court cases
balcony in Memphis
including Brown vs. The Board of
excerpt from THFK,
Education and The Regents University Supreme Court case
I. LDC Module
of California vs. Bakke, UNRAAVEL
for the Regents of the covering Civil Rights
format for the Southern Manifesto, Universty of California
throughout TN
Breakdown of images for major civil vs Bakke, Court Case
History
rights events, Timeline periodization
for Brown vs. the
II. Timeline Activity
of events for the civil rights
Board of Education,
movements
various Civil Rights
Acts
2
Developing Newspaper Articles for
Letter from a
historical biographies of various
Birmingham Jail, "I
Americans through
individuals, Graphic Organizer
Have a Dream" speech Time: The Civil Rights
detailing contribuitions of individuals, Dr. Martin Luther King
Movement
SOAPStone on individual reading
JR., "The Ballot or the
excerpts
Bullet" - Malcolm X
Estimated Date of Constructed Response Test (Part I Assessment)
Counter Culture and Social Activism
Major Movements - Chicano, American
Indian, Feminism, Hippies, Woodstock,
generation gap
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
U.S. 95, U.S. 97,
U.S.101
2
SOAPStone for various counterculture
articles, Breakdown of musical lyrics
of Woodstock, Breakdown of images
of counterculture, UNRAAVEL format
for The Femine Mystique, Reading
excerpts from Phyllis Schafly
Betty Friedan's The
Femine Mystique,
Phyllis Schalfy's
arguments against
Americans through
feminism, Images from
Time: Experiencing
the Chicano
Counter Culture
Movement,
Woodstock, American
Indian Movment,
Music from Woodstock
Created July 2015
High School
Key Concept
Environmentalism
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Major Ideas
Reliance on Foreign Oil, 1970's Energy
crisis, Environmental Protection Agency,
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and
disasters
Standards
U.S.33
Duration
(days)
%
Fall 2015
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
Excerpts from Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring,
Breakdown of data influencing the
Documents citing the Cause / Effect Chart:
green movement, UNRAAVEL format creation of the E.P.A, Environmentalism
for Silent Spring
Charts demonstrating
and the U.S
environmental
consequences
1
Recommend State Readings: "The Great Silent Majority" - Richard Nixon, "Brandenburg Gate Speech" - Ronald Reagan, "Address to the Nation on Spet. 11th" Geroge W. Bush
Questioning of the President
Modern Technology and Innovation
Watergate, Iranian Hostage Crisis, and
Iran Contra Scandal
innovators and entrepreneurs
U.S. 99 andU.S.
103
U.S. 104 and U.S.
107
2
Graphic Organizer for Scandals tied to
Documents of
the presidents and discussion about
evidence from the
the role of the President in the
Watergate
Comparison Essay:
modern world, Timeline Activtiy for investigation, Iranian
Presidential Scandals
Watergate scandal, Informational Hostage Crisis, and the
and their effects
writing on the effects of negative
Iran Contra Scandal,
events on the Moral of the United
and Carter's Crisis in
States
Confidence Speech
2
Graphic Organizer detailing major
I. Judging Modern
Excerpts from various
modern advancements and their
Inventions
Magazine articles
creators and their effects, Creation of
II. Americans through
describing modern
Biographical Narratives about major
Time: Life in the
inventions
entreprenuers
1970's and 1980's
2
Speech excerpts
Graphic Organizers comparing major detailing Presidential
domestic policy goals, Timeline
domestic goals,
Graphic Organizer:
activity detailing major events in
Gcharts describing
Presidential Policies
domestic programs, SOAPStone
economic effects of
and Effects
activity for each president
ideas, NAFTA readings
from both sides
Graphic Organizers comparing major
Maps detailing U.S.
foriegn policy goals, Timeline activity
Americans through
Involvement overseas,
detailing major events in domestic
Time: Life in Modern
Timelines of major U.S.
programs, SOAPStone activity for each
America
military actions
president
Presidential Policies (Part IIDomestic Programs)
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, ,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack
Obama
U.S. 105, U.S.
106, U.S. 108,
U.S. 111, U.S.
112
Presidential Policies (Part II Foreign Polices)
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, ,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack
Obama
U.S. 105, U.S.
106, U.S.
108,U.S. 109,
U.S. 111, U.S.
112
1
Key Concept
Major Ideas
Standards
Duration
(days)
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
%
Instructional Strategies
Materials
Assessment
Created July 2015
High School
Increased role of diversity in
American culture
U.S. History Pacing Guide
Sandra Day O'Connor, Sally Ride,
Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton,
Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, and
President Barack Obama
Authors: Drew Norman and Nick Deschamps
U.S. 112
2
Fall 2015
Video excerpts of
women discussed in
Newspaper Articles detailing major
the standards, Reading
accomplishments of Women in the
Graphic Organizer:
excerpts detailing the
modern era, Timeline Activity
Major Individuals and
rise of women in
discussing major events for women in
the conribution
government, Charts
government
detailing minorities as
candidates in elections
Created July 2015