SOCIAL STUDIES AH 2 Unit 7

Public Schools of Robeson County American History II

INSTRUCTIONAL ALLIGNMENT

The mid-twentieth century marked a period of substantial social change in the United States. Various groups including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, gay and lesbian Americans sought greater civil rights. Public opinion evolves as a result of foreign and domestic policies and public events.

Essential Standards:
AH2.H.1 Apply the four interconnected dimensions of historical thinking to United States History Essential Standards in order to understand the creation and development of the United States over time
AH2.H.2 Analyze key political ,economic and social turning points in United States History using historical thinking AH2.H.3 Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement and expansion and their impact on United States development over time
AH2.H.4 Analyze how conflict and compromise have shaped politics, economics and culture in the United States
AH2.H.5 Understand how tensions between freedom, equality and power have shaped the political, economic and social development of the United States
AH2.H.7 Understand the impact of war on American politics, economics, society and culture
AH2.H.8 Analyze the relationship between progress, crisis and the “American Dream” within the United States
Clarifying Objective:
AH2.H.1.1 (Use Chronological thinking)
AH2.H.1.2 (Use Historical Comprehension)
AH2.H.1.3 (Use Historical Analysis and Interpretation)
AH2.H.1.4 (Historical Research)
AH2.H.2.1: Analyze key political, economic and social turning points since Reconstruction in terms of causes and effects AH1.H.2.2: Evaluate key turning points since Reconstruction in terms of their lasting impact
AH2.H.3.2 Explain how environmental, cultural and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the United States since the end of Reconstruction
AH2.H.4.1 Analyze the political issues and conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted
AH2.H.4.2 Analyze the economic issues and conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted
AH2.H.4.3 Analyze the social and religious conflicts, movements and reforms that impacted the United States since Reconstruction in terms of participants, strategies, opposition and results
AH2.H.5.1 Summarize how the philosophical, ideological and/or religious views on freedom and equality contributed to the development of American political and economic systems since Reconstruction
AH2.H.7.3 Explain the impact of wars on American society and culture since Reconstruction
AH2.H.8.3 Evaluate the extent to which a variety of groups and individuals have had opportunity to attain their perception of the “American Dream” since Reconstruction
AH2.H.8.4 Analyze multiple perceptions of the “American Dream” in times of prosperity and crisis since Reconstruction
Essential Questions
Pacing Guide: 10 days / How does a nations involvement in international conflict affect policies and society at home?
To what degree has equality be achieved in America?
How do technological changes alter the lives of individuals?
How does government’s response to political events and situation impact the nation?
How did the Civil Rights Movement Change America?
How has the post-war social changes impacted America?
How did the philosophical shift toward more militant tactics impact the outcome of the Civil Rights Movement?
How is America different because of the social movement of this era?
Focus: - Civil Rights Movement & Social Movements, foreign and domestic policies
Unit of Study / Major Concepts / Instructional Task / Essential Vocabulary / Instructional Resources / Sample Assessment Prompts
Civil Rights and Post-War America / Conflict and Compromise
Freedom, Equality and Power
International Affairs and Foreign Policy
War and its impact / 1. Define current vocabulary
2. Discuss concepts for the unit of study.
3. Examine and explain the impact of economic, political and social policies on this time period.
4. Analyze reasons for and impact of expansion and overseas involvement and empire.
5. Compare and contrast imperialistic and isolationist tactics and motives.
6. Explain the impact of the assimilation of cultures on progress and the “American Dream”. / Prior: Civil Rights
Environmental issues
Conformity to individualism / Text Resources: / To what extent did the decade of the 1950s deserve its reputation as an age of political, cultural, and social conformity? (1994)
Compare and contrast United States society in the 1920s and the 1950s with respect to TWO of the following: (2003)
race relations
role of women
consumerism
Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following transformed American society in the 1960s and 1970s. (2005)
The Civil Rights Movement
The antiwar movement
The women’s movement
Although the 1960s are usually considered the decade of greatest achievement for Black civil rights, the 1940s and 1950s were periods of equally important gains. Assess the validity of this statement. (1991)
How did the African American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s address the failures of the Reconstruction? (2002)
Discuss, with respect to TWO of the following, the view that the 1960s represented a period of profound cultural change: (2000)
Education
Gender roles
Music
Race relations
Current:
GI Bill of Rights
Baby boom
Taft-Hartley Act
Fair Deal
Interstate Highway Act
Sunbelt
Service sector
Information industry
AFL-CIO
Consumerism
Nuclear family
Benjamin Spock
Rock-and-roll
Elvis Presley
Jonas Salk
De jure segregation
De facto segregation
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs. Board of Education
Earl Warren
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sit-in
SNCC
Freedom ride
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
March on Washington filibuster
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom Summer
Fannie Lou Hamer
Voting Rights Act
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Kerner Commission
Malcolm X
Black Power
Black Panthers
CORE Conference
Southern Christian Leadership / Digital Resources:
Documents:
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Martin Luther King, “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail,” “I Have a Dream”
Speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg (1971)
Audio and Visual Resources:
Movies
The Blackboard Jungle
Separate but Equal
Videos/DVDs
Eyes on the Prize Series (PBS)
Literature Connections:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Behind the Color
Line in America
Eric Goldman, The Crucial Decade
David Halberstam, The Fifties
Elizabeth Kytle, Willa Mae
Fine Arts Connections:
Romare Bearden. Empress of the Blues,
SAAM
Norman Rockwell. The Problem We All
Live With, 1964 ,Norman Rockwell
Museum, Stockbridge, MA
John Biggers. Shotgun, Third Ward,
1966, SAAM
Songs:
“We Shall Overcome”
“Oh Freedom”
“Eyes on the Prize”
“We Shall Not Be Moved”
Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
Suggested Websites:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/ga
llery/movement.asp
http://www.wmich.edu/mlk/
http://www.mlkonline.net/speeches.ht
ml
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doc
uments/docpages/document_page89.ht
m
Curriculum Pathways Resources
(available at: www.sasinschool.com)
All for One, Project 406
Evolution of the Supreme Court, Web
Lesson 614
How did African-American
involvement in World War II lay the
foundation for future desegregation in
the military? Web Inquiry 208
Progression of Society: The Last Half of
the American Century, Classroom
Activity 1139
Recipe for Rights, Classroom Activity
1338
Documents:
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Equal Rights Amendment
Audio and Visual Resources:
Videos/DVDs
The Fight In the Fields, César Chávez
and the Farmworkers’ Struggle
(PBS)
The Sensational 70s
1975: Year After the Fall
Literature Connections:
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
Fine Arts Connections:
William Wiley. Portrait of Radon, 1982,
SAAM
Andy Warhol. 100 Cans, 1962 Albright-
Knox Gallery
Roy Lichtenstein. Blam, 1962 Yale Univ.
Art Gallery
Idelle Weber. Cooper Union Trash,
1974, Schmit Bingham Gallery, N.Y.
Andrew Wyeth. November First,
1950, SAAM
Songs:
Bob Dylan, “The Times They are a
Changin’
Merle Haggard, “Okie from Muscogee”
Scott McKenzie, “San Francisco”
Helen Reddy, “I Am Woman”
Suggested Websites:
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Roe/
http://www.rachelcarson.org/
Curriculum Pathways Resources
(available at: www.sasinschool.com)
A Reformer’s Journal, Project 401
How has the electorate changed since
the Constitution was first written? Web
Inquiry 213
Presidential Comparison and Contrast
Charts, Web Lesson 615
Progression of Society: The Last Half of
the American Century. Classroom
Activity 1139
The Turbulent Sixties: Exhibits
Representing a Decade of Complexities,
Project 407
Documents:
Americans with Disabilities Act
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Audio and Visual Resources:
“Judge O’Connor Nominated for
Supreme Court” ABC Best of Nightline
(1981)
Literature Connections:
Christopher Buckley, Thank You For
Smoking
Fine Arts Connections:
Andy Warhol. Lavender Disaster, 1963
private collection
Suggested Websites:
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/links/adalin
ks.htm
Curriculum Pathways Resources
(available at: www.sasinschool.com)
Evolution of the Supreme Court, Web
Lesson 614
Freedom of Speech in School,
InterActivity 1186
How did the case of Ernesto Miranda
affect arrest procedures in America?
Web Inquiry 216
Stretching Exercises for the Constitution:
Changes after the Bill of Rights, Project
4.08
The Minimum Wage, InterActivity 1184
The Supreme Court, Web Lesson 617
Documents:
Bilingual Education Act of 1968
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke (1978)
Audio and Visual Resources:
Videos/DVDs
The New Americans (PBS )
Literature Connections:
Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of
Morning”
Sandra Cisneros, Four Skinny Trees
Roger Daniels, Coming to America
Georgie Anne Geyer, Americans
No More
Colin Powell, An American Dream
Studs Terkel, The Great Divide
Sanford Ungar, Fresh Blood: The New
American Immigrants
Gregory Alan-Williams, A Gathering
of Heroes
Fine Arts Connections:
Pictures of Sesame Street Characters
Sargent Johnson. Mask, 1930, SAAM
Robert McNeill. New Car, 1938, SAAM
Suggested Websites:
http://www.census.gov
http://www.census.gov/main/www/
popclock.html
http://www.usimmigrationagency.org
http://www.landmarkcases.org/bakke
/courtsystem.html
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschil
dren/diversity/read_linguistic.html
http://www.nea.org/esea/
Curriculum Pathways Resources
(available at: www.sasinschool.com)
Progression of a Society: The Last Half
of the American Century, Classroom
Activity 1139
Introductory:
Cold War, containment, arms race / Literary Connections: