US History

US History -- Scroll down to find the current unit.

Recent assignments

Industrialization and Urbanization Lecture Slideshow -- click here.

Get handout in class.

Vol. 11 Video: Industrialization and Urbanization -- get handout in class.

Extra Credit "Marching Through History" Reenactment
For Instructions and event info, Click here.

Video: "The Haunted History of Halloween" -- link to film is here.
(You may get a message saying you have to sign in because there may be inappropriate things in the video; it just has the history of the holiday, including ancient and more modern religious customs and reactions to the holiday, and pop cultural takes on the holiday).

The Political Spectrum: Lecture is here.

Previous Unit Work:

Unit 1.2 Section 2 Work:
1. Video: "Westward" -- Click HERE for Transcript
2. Unit 1.2.2 Lecture: "Growth and Conflict" Click HERE for lecture.
3. Video: "Division" -- Click for Transcript

Unit 1.2 Section 3 Work:
4. Unit 1.2.3 Lecture: "The Civil War" Click HERE for lecture.
5. Video: America – The Story of Us: "Civil War"
6. Film: "Lincoln" – Film Script (read and answer questions)

Unit 1.2 Section 4 Work:
7. Unit 1.2.4 Lecture: "Reconstruction" Click HERE for lecture.
8. Video Vol. 10: "Reconstruction" (come in at OH, lunch, or after school)

Inter-unit work:
1. Map work: US Political Map (50 States)
2. US Political Map test

Introductory work and Unit 1.1 Work:

1. Facing History reading,
    "Little Things are Big":
    Click HERE and scroll down.

2. US Physical Map,
    Click HERE
    (Or scroll down to the map)
    Look for:
    Physical Map Blank
    Physical Map Instructions
    Physical Map labeled

3. Video Vol. 1 (in class only)

4. Video Vol. 2 (in class only)

5. Puritan Punishments Article
    Click HERE and scroll down.

6. Facing History Reading: Video,
     "The Lunch Date" (see Units page
     "Facing History Lessons")

7. Video Vol. 3 (in class only)

8. Lecture Unit 1 Section 1
    (see Units > Unit 1 -- scroll down)

9. Video "Rebels" (see Units > Unit 1)

10. Film "John Adams"
      (see Units > Unit 1)

11. Reading analysis:
      The Declaration of Independence
      (see Units > Unit 1)

12. Video "Revolution"
      (see Units > Unit 1)

Syllabus

Digital Citizenship Unit

For 11.1 Remix, Click here.

For 11.2 "College Bound" click here and here. There are 2 files to use.

Introductory Work

Mapwork, Political Spectrum, and 9/11

U.S. History Units

Click the blue hyperlink to go to the page for that unit. If the titles are gray, the work is not available online.

Introductory Work / Facing History Topics
Unit 1 Creating a Nation / Growth and Conflict
Unit 2 Industrialization / Progressivism
Unit 3 Imperialism / World War I
Unit 4 The Jazz Age / Politics of the 1920s
Unit 5 The Great Depression / The New Deal

Unit 6 World War II (1940s)
Unit 7 The Cold War and Postwar America (1950s)
Unit 8 The Civil Rights Movement / 1960s Programs
Unit 9 The Vietnam War and the Politics of Protest
Unit 10 Politics, Economics and the End of the Cold War
Unit 11 Into a New Century (1992 - the Present)

Special Lessons:

The Political Spectrum
Additional Political Spectrum material is here.

WWII Lecture

Lecture Part 1 Lecture Part 2 Lecture Sheet 2018

1950s-1980s Overview (Post-War/Cold War/Civil Rights material)

Lecture Part 1 Lecture Part 2 Lecture Sheet

Vietnam Film: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hhhme

Guest Speaker: Vietnam War

To find the guest speaker video, click on the link and scroll half way down until it says "Guest Speaker" and you see photos of Mr. Cook. There will be a video below the photos. Click here.

Civil Rights Videos

Civil Rights Video Links:

Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D5xwC6M_Gk

Chicano: Taking Back the Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6cytReBm8

Chicano: Struggle in the Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHCdjpFPrw