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Applied U.S. History 8th (7351) | |||
| Grade Range: | |
| 8 | |
| Prerequisites: | |
| None | |
| Course duration: | |
| Two semesters; may be repeated for credit | |
| Course Description: | |
| This course covers major events, people, and themes in the development of the United States from the Constitution to World War I (1783–1914). The course uses individual and group participation to develop concepts and products of learning.
Students identify the new nation, westward expansion, and Union and Confederacy on maps and globe. They produce pictorial representations of the Constitution and articles of the Bill of Rights, illustrating their understanding of freedoms guaranteed to all Americans. They develop timelines and other graphic and pictorial representations and charts demonstrating the establishment of the United States as a sovereign nation, the westward expansion, and the causes and major events of the Civil War. They develop comparison charts to represent the ideas of Jefferson and Hamilton and to contrast Union and Confederacy resources, technology, industry, and lifestyle. | |
| State Course Code(s): | |
| 1000 - Self-Contained Class | |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: | |
| Contemporary’s American History 2: After 1865, Wright Group. | |