Monday, August 17, 2020

Monday/Tuesday, August 17/18, 2020, United States History: Module 1 Prologue: American Beginnings

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance
Standards:11.1, 11.3
Objectives: SWBAT
  • Identify the fifty states of the United States on a map.
  • Analyze the Bill of Rights.
  • Describe the American Colonist move to independence and establishment of the United States.
  • Analyze the Star Spangled Banner and its meaning to the United States Nationalism.
  • Describe Manifest Destiny and Reconstruction after the Civil War. 
Mapping 15 minutes: United States Map, United States Map #2 
Analysis 20 minutes: Bill of Rights
  1. Define each in your own words.
Lecture 20 minutes: American Colonies through the Revolution
Reading 15 minutes: Star Spangled Banner
Video 20 minutes: Manifest Destiny
  1. What was the purpose of Manifest Destiny?
  2. Which New States were added into the Union after Manifest Destiny?
  3. Why was Texas originally not accepted into the Union?
  4. Which State came in when Texas did?
  5. What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
  6. How many people were incorporated into the United States after the Mexican American War?
Video 15 minutes: Reconstruction
  1. What was Reconstruction?
  2. Which President had to preside over the beginning of Reconstruction?
  3. What was the role of the Freedman's Bureau?
  4. Describe sharecropping. How did it still keep newly freed slaves tied to the land?
  5. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the XIV Amendment?
  6. What were the Black codes and what was their purpose? 
  7. What was Radical Reconstruction?
  8. What did the XV Amendment guarantee? 
  9. What was the role of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?
  10. What is the legacy of Reconstruction? Why or why not was it successful?
Analysis 20 minutes: "History is Written by the Victors."
  1. Who said this? 
  2. When did they say this?  
  3. What did they mean by this? 
  4. How would you interpret this quote? 
  5. Are there similar versions of this quote? 

 Closing 5 minutes:  Review Objectives 

No comments:

Post a Comment