Course Organizer U.S. History –Beginning to 1877 Course Standards: The Teacher(s): Time: The Course Organizer Student: Course Dates: How? What? Value? This Course: Content: Process: Course Progress Graph Course Questions: is about Course Standards: U.S. History –Beginning to 1877 Writing Pieces, Assessments, Projects : 60% Pre-Ap- 70% W/Us, Notes, Maps/Graphs, Assignments : 40% PreAp-30% How the U.S. was created and evolved as a nation. Unit Tests Class Discussions Peer Work Sentence Writing Warm-Ups Paragraph Writing Analyzing Graphics SIM Strategies 1. How has geography influenced the development of the United States? 2. Why has the United States developed a multicultural identity and how has this identity changed over time? 3. How has technology influenced U.S. development? 4. How did the struggles of the nation influence the development of the U.S. government? 5. How do different sources help us understand the U.S. experience? How has the United States interacted with other nations and what have been the outcomes? 6. How did the philosophies of key historical figures influence the development of the nation? 7. How have economic relationships influenced historical events? 8. How has the Constitution been a road map for our government and been amended to meet the needs of a changing nation?

Course Map U.S. History Learning Rituals Units Community Performance Principles Learning Rituals Course Map This Course: includes Performance Options Student: Critical Concepts Learned in these Units U.S. History Trustworthy Respectful Attentive Cooperative Kind Self Disciplined Debates Essays Reports Multiple Choice Tests Daily Assignments Collaborating Learning Reading Skills Unit Organizers SSR SIM Routines Technology Responses Paragraph Writing Maps/Charts/Graphs Unit 1 Exploration and Colonization Unit 12 Rights and Responsibilities Geography Multicultural Development of U.S. Economic Development of the U.S. Societal Development of the U.S. Founding of the U.S. Government Industrialism Sectionalism Unit 2 Celebrate Freedom Week Unit 3 American Revolution Unit 11 Reconstruction Unit 4 Writing the Constitution Unit 10 Civil War Unit 5 Early Republic Unit 9 Sectionalism & Growing Divisions Unit 6 Age of Jackson Unit 7 Westward Expansion Unit 8 Industrialization and reform

Course Map U.S. History Learning Rituals Units Community Performance Principles Learning Rituals Course Map This Course: includes Performance Options Student: Critical Concepts Learned in these Units U.S. History Trustworthy Respectful Attentive Cooperative Kind Self Disciplined Debates Essays Reports Multiple Choice Tests Daily Assignments Collaborating Learning Reading Skills Unit Organizers SSR SIM Routines Technology Responses Paragraph Writing Maps/Charts/Graphs Unit 1 Unit 13 Unit 2 Unit 12 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 11 Unit 5 Unit 10 Unit 6 Unit 9 Unit 7 Unit 8