Quarter 1

Week of / Days in Week / History / English
8/21 / Early America & Religion
What inspired the American Dream? /
  • Syllabus quiz
  • Classroom / textbook scavenger hunt
  • American Dream
  • Founding of U.S.
/ Early America
Who was included/excluded? / - What is an American?
Puritans
-Sinners
- Wheatley & Adams Letters
Chief Seattle
Slave Narrative
Ideas
Religion
Exceptionalism
Exclusion
8/27 /
  • Enlightenment
  • American Revolution
  • John Winthrop “City on a Hill”
  • Declaration of Independence

9/3 /
  • Constitutional issues
  • Civil War
  • Mormons

9/10 /
  • Westward Expansion
  • Evangelicals
  • Unit 1 Test

CULMINATING ACTIVITY: Declaration of Independence from unique perspective: women, Native American, African-American: Declaration of the Rights of Women as example. AT HOME ONLINE
9/17 / 4 day wk / Industrialization (1860-1920)
Collective vs. Individual /
  • Industrialization
  • Immigration / migration
  • Urban life
/ Transcendentalism
Collective vs. Individual / - Psalm of Life
- I Sit & Look Out
- I Hear America Singing
- Self Reliance
- On Civil Disobedience
-Railroad or other social history/nf selections
“Yellow Wallpaper”?
MLA citations
9/24 /
  • Political machine
  • Factory working conditions

10/1 /
  • Reformers / Progressives
  • Big Business / Robber Barons
  • Assign Progressive Newspaper Project

10/8 /
  • The Jungle
  • Populists
  • Newspaper project due

10/15 /
  • Industrial Essay
  • Unit 2 NB work time & assessment
  • Unit 2 Test

CULMINATING ACTIVITY: “Competing QUOTES TO WORK FROM” Based on the readings in history and English which should be more important the collective or the individual? IN CLASS ENGLISH—OUTLINE PREPARED BEFOREHAND AT HOME

Quarter 2

Week of / Days in Week / History / English
10/29 / The New Century: Did the changes of the new century make the American dream more accessible? / Spanish American War
Imperialism
WWI
CULMINATING: Multiple choice & essay / The New Century: Did the changes of the new century make the American dream more accessible? / Gatsby
Test & Essay
Essay in class—take home to flush out/improve/revise
11/5
11/12
11/19 / 2 day wk
11/26 / 1920s / Harlem Renaissance
12/3
12/10
12/17
CULMINATING ACTIVITY: History Channel—video to act out women’s issues, consumerism, role of African Americans, jazz, lost generation
1/3 / 2 day wk / Great Depression: What is the influence of the Great Depression on the American Dream? /
  • Grapes of Wrath Movie w/ English connections?
  • Movie notes
  • Writing assignment Due?
  • Song analysis
  • Dustbowl
  • Farming
  • Critics of New Deal
  • Causes of depression
  • Stock market crash
  • New Deal
Final--Socratic / Great Depression: What is the influence of the Great Depression on the American Dream? / Excerpt from Grapes of Wrath
Dorothea Lange photos
Letters to FDR
Out of the Dust??
Final—Multiple Choice??
1/7
1/14
1/21 MLK / FINALS 1/22-25

Quarter 3

Week of / Days in Week / History / English
1/28 Furlough / 4 / Unit 6: WWII
How does the paradox of fighting for democracy while denying it to others impact our view of American exceptionalism? /
  • Fred, Unit Question
  • Homefront: Pearl Harbor
  • Rosey the Riveter
  • Interment
  • Zoot Suit
  • Battles in Pacific
  • Tuskegee Airmen,
  • Navajo Code Talkers, Should we have dropped the bomb? DEBATE
/
  • Survival at Auschwitz—Guardkilling (Cherie)
  • Order 9066 poem
  • Orphans at Manzanaar 1/31-2/5
  • Segregated Army Unit—Studs Turkle (Cherie)
  • Voices from
  • Hiroshima 2/13
  • BBC documentary?
  • Hiroshima (2 wks)?

2/4
2/11
2/19
CULMINATING: To what extent are democratic values applied to Americans during WWII on the homefront?
2/25 / Cold War
How did the American focus on Communism affect the American Dream? /
  • Cold War Marshall Plan
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Korean War
  • Atomic Age
  • UN & GAT
  • Unit question/culminating includes Crucible
/ The Crucible
Crucible Test
3/4
3/11
3/18
CULMINATING:
3/25 / Civil Rights
To what extent is challenging authority an intrinsic part of pursuing the American dream? /
  • Start Civil Rights movt.
  • Letter From Birmingham Jail
  • Little Rock Nine
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Rosa Parks
  • Malcolm X
/ Beat Poetry??

Quarter 4

Week of / Days in Week / History / English
4/8 / Civil Rights, Vietnam, Watergate / Cesar Chavez, Great Society, Watergate, / Finish Beat Poetry??
4/15 / Vietnam
4/22 / Star Test Review /
  • Star Test Review
/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
4/29 / Current Events
To what extent is challenging authority an intrinsic part of pursuing the American dream? /
  • Forest Gump
  • 80s – 90s
  • Current Events

5/5
5/12
5/19
5/26
FINALS/CULMINATING ACTIVITY: American Dream Project/Lit Project