United States History

Topic outline

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  HISTORY FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE 21ST CENTURY

  • Syllabus File
  • News forum
  • channel one news URL
  • Michigan State Standards URL
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  HOMEWORK

  Students will have a weekly homework assignment that will be due every Thursday or Friday (depending on the block schedule for the week). Students should also expect additional homework if they do not complete their classroom work. At the end of the each 9 week marking period students will have to complete a World News Map.

  • weekly homework rubric File
  • World News Map Rubric File

  
  
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  INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK

  All students will keep an interactive notebook throughout the course of the year. Please see rubric for more details!

  p.1     guidelines (must be signed by student and parent)

  p.2     expectations (must be signed by student and parent)

  p.3     weekly homework rubric

  p.4     world map rubric

  • Interactive Notebook Guidelines File

  
  
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  The infamous Christopher Columbus . . . .Hero or Villain?

  • Enounter File
  • Hero or Villian File
  • A People's History of the United States File
  • Reflections on Columbus Wiki

  
  
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  CH. 11 RECONSTRUCTION

  • Balderdash File

  
  
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  CH. 12 HOW THE WEST WAS LOST

  
  
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  CH. 13 THE AGE OF INNOVATION AND INDUSTRY

  
  
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  CH. 14 LABOR'S RESPONSE TO INDUSTRIALISM

  
  
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  CH. 15 THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND AND ANGEL ISLAND: THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

  
  
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  CH. 16 UNCONVERING PROBLEMS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

  
  
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  CH. 17 THE PROGRESSIVES RESPOND

  
  
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  CH. 18 PROGRESSIVISM ON THE NATIONAL STAGE

  • notebook guide File

  
  
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  CH. 19 FOREIGN POLICY: SETTING A COURSE FOR EXPANSIONISM

  • notebook guide File
  • student handout A File
  • student handout B File

  
  
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  CH. 20 THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

  • Notebook guide File
  • student handout File
  • song lyrics File

  
  
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  CH. 21 ACQUIRING AND MANAGING GLOBAL POWER

  • notebook guide File
  • student handout A File
  • student handout B File

  
  
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  EXAM STUDY GUIDE

  • January 2011 study guide File

  
  
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  CH. 22: FROM NEUTRALITY TO WAR

  • Notebook Guide File

  
  
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  CH. 34: THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II

  • notebook guide File

  
  
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