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Unit 9: America Enters WWII
Essential Question #1: What were the key turning points for the Allied forces against Axis powers?
Essential Question #2: How did the United States form domestic support for the war?
(Content Area Literacy Standards are included below)
Standards:
USH.5.3 Identify and explain key events from Versailles to Pearl Harbor that resulted in the United States entry into
World War II.
USH.5.4 Identify key leaders and events from World War II and explain the significance of each.
USH.5.5 Describe Hitler’s “final solution” policy and explain the Allied responses to the Holocaust and war crimes.
USH.5.6 Explain how the United States dealt with individual rights and national security during World War II by examining the
following groups: Japanese-Americans, African Americans, Native-Americans, Hispanics, and women.
USH.9.1 Identify patterns of historical succession and duration in which historical events have unfolded and apply them to
explain continuity and change.
USH.9.2 Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past; discover
possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.
USH.9.3 Analyze multiple, unexpected, and complex causes and effects of events in the past.
USH.9.4 Explain issues and problems of the past by analyzing the interests and viewpoints of those involved.
USH.9.5 Formulate and present a position or course of action on an issue by examining the underlying factors contributing to
that issue.
11-12.LH.1.1: Read and comprehend history/social studies texts within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 11-CCR independently and proficiently by the end of
grade 12.
11-12.LH.3.1: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over
the course of a text
11-12.LH.2.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of
the text as a whole.
Text-based Practice:
Pearson Online Access: www.pearsonsuccessnet.com (use code 94-71-66 to register)
America: United States History: Reconstruction to the Present (Prentice Hall)
IDOE Resources for Course:
IDOE Home page http://www.doe.in.gov/
IDOE-Social Studies page http://www.doe.in.gov/standards/social-studies
Web-based Practice:
U.S. History for All of Us
http://www.nchs.ucla.edu/resources/u.s.-history-for-us-all
Have Fun with History
http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/HistorySubjects/WWII.html
American Experience – War in the Pacific
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/1/
Social Studies: U.S. History (1877 to Present) Pacing Resource
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IDOE-History/Social Studies Content Area Literacy Standards (linked at bottom of page)
Smithsonian Digital Learning site
http://smithsonianeducation.org/
http://www.doe.in.gov/standards/englishlanguage-arts
Smithsonian Education for Kids
IDOE Online Communities of Practice (see “Social Studies 9-12”) – Uses Google + Social Network
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/explore_by_topic/history_
http://www.doe.in.gov/elearning/online-communities-practice
culture.html
General Resources for Historical Thinking and Assessment
African American World – African American History PBS
Differentiated Questioning
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
https://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/file/view/essential.pdf
Hippocampus.org/History & Government/Presentations (After 1877, The
Developing Essential Questions for American History
American West)
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/resources/essential-questions-teaching-american- http://www.hippocampus.org/
history
U.S. History.org (a great online site for general U.S. information and easy to
Stanford History Education Group – Introduction to Historical Thinking (Lessons)
search)
http://sheg.stanford.edu/intro-historical-thinking
http://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/math/index.html
Beyond the Bubble -- Integrating Historical Thinking into Classroom Assessment (assessments
Digital History Ag
available)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
https://beyondthebubble.stanford.edu/
The Social Studies Help Center
Reading Quest – Reading, Writing and Research Comprehension Strategies and Handouts
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/sitemap2.html
http://www.readingquest.org/
Helping Struggling Readers
http://www.readingrockets.org/helping
National Archives Docs Teach – WWII
http://docsteach.org/activities/search?mode=browse&menu=open&era[]=
civil-war-and-reconstruction
Backstory
http://backstoryradio.org/shows/real-to-reel-history-at-the-movies/
Reading Like a Historian – U.S. History Primary Source
sheg.stanford.edu/
New Deal – Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat Activity – Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/fdrs-fireside-chats-power-words
Example Unit Inquiry & Extension
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Unit 10: Post-War Society in America
Essential Question #1: How did America’s role as a “superpower” after WWII change its relations with world?
Essential Question #2: In what way did America’s experience at war change its society at the end of the war?
(Content Area Literacy Standards are included below)
Standards:
USH.5.7 Summarize the efforts the national government made to regulate production, labor, and prices during the war and
evaluate the success or failure of these efforts.
USH.5.8 Identify and describe the impact of World War II on American culture.
USH.5.9 Explain how World War II led to the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers.
USH.6.1 Understand the domino theory and its relationship to the principle of containment. Identify key events and individuals
as well as their connections to post World War II tensions (Cold War).
USH.6.2 Summarize and assess the various actions which characterized the early struggle for civil rights (1945-1960).
USH.6.3 Describe the constitutional significance and lasting societal effects of the United States Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court case.
USH.6.4 Summarize key economic and social changes in post-WW II American life.
USH.9.1 Identify patterns of historical succession and duration in which historical events have unfolded and apply them to
explain continuity and change.
USH.9.2 Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past; discover
possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.
USH.9.3 Analyze multiple, unexpected, and complex causes and effects of events in the past.
USH.9.4 Explain issues and problems of the past by analyzing the interests and viewpoints of those involved.
11-12.LH.1.1: Read and comprehend history/social studies texts within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 11-CCR independently and proficiently by the end of
grade 12.
11-12.LH.3.1: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over
the course of a text
11-12.LH.2.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of
the text as a whole.
Text-based Practice:
Pearson Online Access: www.pearsonsuccessnet.com (use code 94-71-66 to register)
America: United States History: Reconstruction to the Present (Prentice Hall)
Web-based Practice:
U.S. History for All of Us
http://www.nchs.ucla.edu/resources/u.s.-history-for-us-all
Social Studies: U.S. History (1877 to Present) Pacing Resource
Document
IDOE Resources for Course:
Have Fun with History
IDOE Home page http://www.doe.in.gov/
http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/HistorySubjects/WWII.html
IDOE-Social Studies page http://www.doe.in.gov/standards/social-studies
American Experience – War in the Pacific
IDOE-History/Social Studies Content Area Literacy Standards (linked at bottom of page)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/1/
Smithsonian Digital Learning site
http://www.doe.in.gov/standards/englishlanguage-arts
http://smithsonianeducation.org/
IDOE Online Communities of Practice (see “Social Studies 9-12”) – Uses Google + Social Network
Smithsonian Education for Kids
http://www.doe.in.gov/elearning/online-communities-practice
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/explore_by_topic/history_
General Resources for Historical Thinking and Assessment
culture.html
Differentiated Questioning
African American World – African American History PBS
https://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/file/view/essential.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
Developing Essential Questions for American History
Hippocampus.org/History & Government/Presentations (After 1877, The
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/resources/essential-questions-teaching-american- American West)
history
http://www.hippocampus.org/
Stanford History Education Group – Introduction to Historical Thinking (Lessons)
U.S. History.org (a great online site for general U.S. information and easy to
http://sheg.stanford.edu/intro-historical-thinking
search)
Beyond the Bubble -- Integrating Historical Thinking into Classroom Assessment (assessments
http://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/math/index.html
available)
Digital History
https://beyondthebubble.stanford.edu/
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Reading Quest – Reading, Writing and Research Comprehension Strategies and Handouts
The Social Studies Help Center
http://www.readingquest.org/
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/sitemap2.html
Helping Struggling Readers
http://www.readingrockets.org/helping
National Archives Docs Teach – WWII
http://docsteach.org/activities/search?mode=browse&menu=open&era[]=
civil-war-and-reconstruction
Backstory
http://backstoryradio.org/shows/real-to-reel-history-at-the-movies/
Reading Like a Historian – U.S. History Primary Source
sheg.stanford.edu/
New Deal – Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat Activity – Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/fdrs-fireside-chats-power-words
Example Unit Inquiry & Extension