IB History of the Americas HL I

IB History of the Americas HL I

The following document outlines the Revised Curriculum in

IB History of the Americas HL I course

LocustValleyCentralSchool District

LVHS Social Studies Department

99 Horse Hollow Road

Locust Valley, New York11560

Summer Curriculum Writing

July 2010

Curriculum Writers:

Jen Hersh, Social Studies Teacher

Anthony Perrone, Social Studies Teacher

David J. Ethe, Department Leader

Table of Contents

Part 1: NY State Learning Standards for Social Studies

(p. 3)

Part 2: Course Description (p. 4-5)

Part 3: Course and Assessment Objectives (p. 6-7)

Part 4 Scope and Sequence and Calendar (p. 8-15)

Part 5: Topic Outlines and Unit Objectives (p. 16-26)

Part 6: Assessments & Resources (p. 27-31)

Part 7: Sample Lesson Plans (p. 32-44)

Part 1: Social Studies Learning Standards

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Social Studies Standards
Students will:
History of the United Statesand New York
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
World History
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Geography
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Economics
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Civics, Citizenship, and Government
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

Part 2: Course Description

The IB History of the Americas HL I course is the first half of a two-year Higher Level course sequence offered through the Social Studies department to all interested students in their junior and senior years.

The first year of this course focuses on the History of the Americas, however in order to meet local standards for New York State Regents requirements, the principal focus of the course is on the history of the United States from the colonial period to today. Another focus of the course includes inter-American relationships and global themes in a world history context (which are broadened in year two). An example would be the analysis and comparison of the causes, practices, and effects of war as understood through the study of specific wars in the Americas such as the U.S. and Latin American wars of Independence.

This course will develop (a) an understanding of some of the principal themes in the History of the Americas (b) an ability to analyze and interpret historical evidence and (c) an understanding of the chronological development of all these areas. The first year of the course will emphasize early historic periods of the Americas (1500 to the end of the twentieth century) to meet New York State Regents requirements. This emphasis also meets the regional option requirement of the IB program. The three content areas stressed in year one will include the Civil War, the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement.

At the conclusion of the first year, students will have completed a Historical Investigation on a topic capable of exploration under the guidance of their teacher. In addition, students will have a solid understanding of needed requirements for mastery on the NY State US History Regents exam.

Part 3: Course Objectives

Upon conclusion of the two-year IB History of the Americascourse, the IB student shall:

Promote an understanding of history as a discipline, including the nature and diversity of its sources, methods and interpretations

Be acutely aware of inter-American relationships and global themes in a world history context

Have developed an extensive understanding and comprehension of some of the themes in the History of the Americas

Explain diverse approaches to, and interpretation of, historical events and issues which will culminate in a thorough understanding of proper historiography.

Be able to use their understanding of the chronological development of these areas to foster their own understanding of "cause and effect" relationships.Encourage an understanding of the present through critical reflection upon the past

Use historical evidence to analyze, comprehend, evaluate and integrate sources and materials

Encourage an understanding of the impact of historical developments at national, regional, and international levels

Develop an awareness of one’s own historical identity through the study of the historical experiences of different cultures

Form an international perspective, elucidate and present historical topics

Organize, plan and present an individualized historical investigationwithin the parameters of the three major content areas.

Assessment Objectives

Apply historical knowledge as evidence

Compare and contrast historical sources as evidence

Explain the importance of historicalsources

Evaluate different approaches to, and interpretations of, historical issues and events

Evaluate and synthesize evidence from both historical sources and backgroundknowledge

Develop critical commentary using the evidence base

Synthesize by integrating evidence and critical commentary

Present an analysis of a summary of evidence

Demonstrate the ability to structure an essay answer, using evidence to support relevant, balanced and focused historical arguments

Demonstrate evidence of research skills, skills of inference, organization and referencing

Units of Study:

Part 4: Scope & Sequence

History of the Americas HL I

Scope:

The new IB History of the Americas HL I guidelines call for a shift in concentration from a 100 year focus to emphasis being placed on three major content areas within the History of the Americas curriculum as outlined below (along with the required scope and sequence content related to the New York State Regents). This content is ultimately part of the assessment material featured in the Paper 3 portion of the IB exams.

HL Options - for Paper 3 – Three intensive studies

1) U.S. Civil War: causes, course and effects 1840-1877

This section focuses on the United States Civil War between the North and the South (1861-5), which is often perceived as the great watershed in the history of the United States. It transformed the country forever: slavery disappeared following Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Northern success marked a victory for the proponents of strong central power over the supporters of states’ rights. It marked the beginnings of further westward expansion and transformed United States’ society by accelerating industrialization and modernization in the North and largely destroying the plantation system in the South. The war left the country with a new set of problems: how would the South rebuild its society and economy and what would be the place in that society of 4 million freed African Americans? These changes were fundamental, leading some historians to see the war (and its results) as a “second American Revolution”.

Cotton economy and slavery; conditions of enslavement; adaptation and resistance such as the Underground Railroad

Origins of the Civil War: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between North and South

Abolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impact

Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debate: the crisis of the 1850s; the Kansas-Nebraska problem; the Ostend Manifesto; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; the impact of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation; Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy.

Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses; economic resources; significance of leaders during the US Civil War (suitable examples could be Grant and Lee, Sherman and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson)

Major battles of the Civil War and their impact on the conflict: Antietam and Gettysburg; the role of foreign powers

Reconstruction: economic, social and political successes and failures; economic expansion

African Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal issues; the Black Codes; Jim Crow Laws

2) Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 1787-2000

The History of the Americasincludes the study of the development of individual rights and liberties and their impact on citizens. Basic to this study is an analysis of the workings of the US Supreme Court and an understanding of its most significant decisions. Students should examine judicial interpretations of various civil rights and liberties such as freedom of speech, assembly, and expression; the rights of the accused; and the rights of minority groups and women. For example, students should understand the legal, social, and political evolution following the Supreme Court's decisions regarding racial segregation. It is important that students be able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Supreme Court decisions as tools of social change. In addition, attention will also focus on civil rights issues in other parts of the Americas.

• The rise and expansion of the civil rights movement: causes, legal issues, tactics

• The development of civil liberties and civil rights by judicial interpretation

• Knowledge of substantive rights and liberties

• Constitutional applications especially the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment on the constitutional development of rights and liberties

• African American experience including the Constitutional Convention, issue of slavery, Reconstruction and African American resistance from 1950-1970 both passive and aggressive.

• Native Americans civil rights movement including Columbian exchange, Trail of Tears, assimilation, reservation policy and the A.I.M. movement of the 1960’s.

• Latino experience in the Americas.

• Early women’s right movement from Seneca Falls, 19th amendment, ERA and the New Feminism movement.

• Supreme Court decisions, key congressional legislation, the response of the executive branch

• Asian Americans including Chinese exclusion, Gentleman’s Agreement and Korematsu v. United States.

3) Cold War and the Americas 1945-1991

This section focuses on the development and impact of the Cold War on the region. Most of the second half of the 20th century was dominated by the global conflict of the Cold War. Within the Americas, some countries were closely allied to the United States and some took sides reluctantly. Many remained neutral or sought to avoid involvement in Cold War struggles. A few, influenced by the Cuban Revolution, instituted socialist governments. No nation, however, escaped the pressures of theCold War and its impact on society and culture.

Truman: containment and its implications for the Americas; the rise of McCarthyism and its effects on domestic and foreign policies of the United States; the Cold War and its impact on society and culture

Korean War and the United States and the Americas: reasons for participation; military developments; diplomatic and political outcomes

Eisenhower and Dulles: New Look and its application; characteristics and reasons for the policy; repercussions for the region

United States’ involvement in Vietnam: the reasons fro, and nature of, the involvement at different stages; domestic effects and the end of the war

United States’ foreign policies from Kennedy to Carter: the characteristics of, and reasons for, policies; implications for the region: Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress; Nixon’s covert operations and Chile; Carter’s quest for human rights and the Panama Canal Treaty

Cold War in Cuba: reasons for foreign and domestic policies and their implementation

• Reagan and Gorbachev policies instrumental in ending the Cold War

Sequence:

IB History of the Americas HL I course (Paper 3 topics) in addition to the required U.S. History & Government Regents course

UNIT 1 –COLONIAL PERIOD
SEPTEMBER
INTRODUCTION
Exercises
Documents
DBQ / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Syllabus, Textbooks (with reading techniques), Policies and Procedures
C & C -Massachusetts Body of Liberties and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
French, English, & Spanish colonial structure
Why did feudalism fail to take root in the Americas?
BuildSpanishTown
Mercantilism game
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Revolution causes
UNIT 2 - US CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS
OCTOBER
Exercise
Project
Document
Research / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Constitutional Convention Simulation
Constitution CD
Federalist Papers –10, 56,78
Bill of Rights
Select topic and begin research for Historical Investigation internal assessment
UNIT 3- EXPANSIONISM & SECTIONALISM
NOVEMBER
Essay
Exercise
Documents
DBQ / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Jackson- humanitarian or human rights violator?
Analyze & debate documents for rationale of war with Mexico
Internal Improvements debate
Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny
Sections of Seller’s Market Revolution
Helen Jackson’s Nation of Dishonor
Jackson & Indian removal
UNIT 4 -INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE AMERICAS
DECEMBER
Exercise
Projects
Documents / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Reconstruction Document analysis
Industrial town journal
Gilded Age magazine
So you want to be a lobbyist?
Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
Sinclair’s The Jungle
George’s Progress and Poverty
Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Address," (1895)
W.E.B. DuBois, from Souls of Black Folk (1903)
UNIT 5 –US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AMERICAS 1898-1945
DECEMBER
Exercises
Project / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Social Darwinism Simulation
Roosevelt Corollary analysis
Inside Out discussion - Presidential Studies Quarterly, March 2004 v34 i1 p.50 (12) McKinley and the Spanish-American war. Offner, John L..
Cross class imperialism simulation & debate
Treaty of Versailles rewrite
UNIT 6- AT HOME & ABROAD PROSPERITY & DEPRESSION
JANUARY
Essay
Exercise
Docs / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Historical investigation due
Compare & Contrast – Canadian & US Great Depression and actions taken
Viewpoints – Did FDR’s New Deal or WWII end the Great Depression?
Depression era political cartoons
FDR’s Fireside addresses
UNIT 7 – WWII & THE AMERICAS
FEBRUARY
Exercises
Documents / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Mock trial – Korematsu v. U.S.
FDR’s Quarantine speech
Lend Lease Act
Neutrality Act
UNIT 8 – US FOREIGN POLICY 1945
MARCH
Exercise
Essay
Documents
DBQ / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Should the Atomic bomb have been dropped- class discussion:
Cuban rev simulation
Cuban missile crisis simulation
Use Reagan speech excerpts to determine US Cold War policy
Vargas, Peron, Castro compare & contrast
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Reagan Doctrine/speeches
Vietnam War
UNIT 9- CIVIL RIGHTS
APRIL
Exercise
Documents / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Mock trial – Brown
Letter From Birmingham jail
“I Have a Dream”
Excerpts from Feminine Mystique & Silent Spring
UNIT 10 – US CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS
MAY
Exercise
Project / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Mock trial – Tinker, Acton, Miranda
Student created Civil Rights Movement multimedia presentation
UNIT 11 – POST INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY –THE AMERICAS
May
Simulation
Exercise
Documents / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Presidential Cabinet –Environment/Energy policy discussion
NAFTA analysis
Barber’s Jihad Vs. McWorld The Atlantic Monthly; March 1992;
3 Weeks (May/June) / NYS Standards
1,2,3,4,5 / Review for Regents exam

Topic Outline (History of the Americas HL I)

Topic 1 Colonial Period (5 Hours)

• Political, religious, and economic impact on colonial policy (Spanish, French, British influence)

• Seeds of political thought and structure in the Americas: political, economic, social, intellectual and religious causes; the role of foreign intervention; conflicts and issues leading to war; events and reasons for the emergence of the Monroe Doctrine

• Comparison of social and economic structure of slavery in Latin America and North America

• Independence movements in the Americas - Political and intellectual contributions of leaders to the process of independence: Washington, Bolivar, Adams, Jefferson, San Martín, O’Higgins)Impact (and treatment) of Latin independence on different social groups: Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles

• Processes leading to the Declaration of Independence; influence of ideas;

Topic2 United States Constitutional Foundations (20 hours)

• Structural flaws of the Articles of Confederation

• Compromises including slaves and question of representation

• Needs of a new nation and implementation of principles

• Domestic and international implications

Topic3Expansion and Sectionalism (20 hours)

• Political, social and economic causes, course and effect of the Civil War

• Effect of Manifest Destiny on the Americas

• Impact on Native Americans and African Americans
• Reconstruction and aftermath

• Work of Dubois and Washington

• Causes and effects of 19th century immigration

• Constitutional issues (pre and post Civil War)

Topic 4Industrialization in the Americas (10 hours)

• Causes and effects of the industrial revolution and neocolonialism

• Immigration policy and practice

• Societal reform movements in the Americas (Labor/Agrarian/Democratic)

• Practices and effects of technology, business and governmental policy

Topic 5 United States Foreign Policy in the Americas, 1898-1945 (5 hours)

• Impact of Washington's Farewell Address on U. S. foreign policy

• Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine

• Causes, course and effects of the Spanish-American War in the Americas

• T. Roosevelt's "Big Stick Policy"

• F. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy

Topic 6 At Home and Abroad: Prosperity And Depression, 1917-1940 (10 hours)

• Causes, course and effects of World War I on the Americas

• Causes, course and effects of economic growth in the Americas

• Societal and governmental impact of the Great Depression in the Americas

• Domestic and international implications of F. Roosevelt's New Deal

• Cultural and technological developments

Topic 7 The Second World War and the Americas (10 hours)