Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Weekly Overview:

Unit Description: Completion of Progressive Unit

World War I (1914-1920

• This unit focuses on the causes, events, and effects of World War I on the world.  It examines the events that led to U.S. involvement and the ultimate effect of this involvement.

Essential Questions:

1. Can students assess the credibility of a given historical document?
2. Can students use a world map to locate and explain the emergence of imperial power?
3. Can students explain the U.S. policy of imperialism and how it increased U.S. involvements in world affairs?
4. Can students explain the causes of World War I?
5. Can students identify and describe significant events and issues during World War I?

Resources/Materials: American: Pathways to the Present,  Comprehensive Curriculum, Guided Readings, Readings in American Hisotyr, Sounds of an Era audio CD, Historical Outline Map Book, United streaming

Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs:H-1A-H3, H-1A-H4, H-1B-H10, H-1B=-H11

Objectives:

Identify the main causes of World War I

Understand how the conflict expanded to draw in much of Europe

Analyze how the U.S. responded to the war in Europe

Discover how Germany’s use of submarines affected the war

Find out the steps the U.S. took toward war in early 1917

Analyze the preparations of the U.S. for World War I

Study the ways in which the American troops helped turn the tide of the war

Learn about conditions in Europe and the U.S. at the end of the war

Learn about the steps the government took to finance the war and manage the economy

Describe how the government enforced loyalty to the war effort

Find out how the war changed the lives of Americans on the home front

Discover the expectations that Wilson and the Allies brought to the Paris peace conference

Learn about the important provisions of the peace treaty

Find out how the federal government and ordinary Americans reacted to the end of the war

Student Learning Activities:

Begin World War I discussion.

We will discuss the causes of the war citing imperialism, militarism, nationalism and the alliance system

PowerPoint

Continue War I

Discuss how the alliance system brought all of Europe into the war

Discuss the Schlieffen Plan and how the underestimation of Russian forces helped save the German victory in the west

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

Continue World War I

We will use today to review or complete the topics that were covered during the week. 

Homework:

No homework this week

Attachments:

Assessments: Guided reading, section quizzes, readings in American History, map work

Links:

What strategies will I use to address literacy this week?  Readings in American History

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Weekly Overview:

Unit Description: The United States on the Brink of Change

• This unit examines the growing involvement of government in making reforms
• This unit focuses on the events that led to U.S. involvement in world affairs, imperialism, and ultimately World War I

Essential Questions:

• Can students assess the credibility of a given historical document?

Can students use a world  

• map to locate and explain the emergence of imperial power?
• Can students explain the U.S. policy of imperialism and how it increased U.S. involvement in world affairs?

Resources/Materials: text, comprehensive curriculum, guided readings and review activities, readings in American History,

Guide to the essentials, primary source readings, PowerPoint, study guide

Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs: same as 11/5

Objectives:

Discover challenges that faced the U.S. after the Spanish-American War

Find out why the U.S. wanted to build the Panama Canal

Learn about the goals of Roosevelt’s big stick diplomacy

Foreign policy after Roosevelt

Examine the main arguments raised by the anti-imperialists

See why imperialism appealed to many Americans

Find out how American imperialism was viewed from abroad

Student Learning Activities:

We will discuss the following from the Progressive Movement

Progressive Legislation: social welfare programs, city government plans, direct primary, initiative, referendum, recall, laws protecting women and children

Coal Miners strike and Roosevelt

Anti-trust cases

Hepburn Act of 1906

Pure Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

Children and Women’s Bureau

U.S.Forest Service

The National Reclamation Act

Continue Progressive Discussion

Amendments 16, 17, 18

The election of 1812

Bull-Moose Party, Taft, Woodrow Wilson

Clayton Antitrust Act

Federal Reserve Act

Election of 1916

Guided Readings Chapter 11

We will work on these in class

If not finished, these are for homework

Section quizzes

Chapter 11

In class

If not finished, homework

Homework:

No homework

Attachments:

Assessments: Guided readings, vocabulary development activities, reviews, study guide notebook, section quizzes

Links:

What strategies will I use to address literacy this week?  Reading on Woodrow Wilson and Progressive legislation