American Experience College Prep Unit Planner

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I Summer  What traits are The Things  What traits define  Credo paper Reading/ unique to Americans They Carried personal growth  Test American  Definition of the  Personal visions Character American character Newsweek for the future  Historic perspectives Magazine- Who (2 weeks) on American We Are character  Personal definitions Credo Letter of American Wall Street character Journal

Const. Day (Special lesson on Constitution as per (l day) federal law)

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II  Major events of The Adventures  Slavery and  Persuasive Prelude to 1850s that led of Huckleberry racism in Essay War: The directly/indirectly to Finn America Ultimate Test the Civil War  Heroism  Test of American  Compromise of Transcripts  Character Character 1850 from L-D development  Kansas-Nebraska Debates  Friendship and Act loyalty – Huck’s  Dred Scott Decision Chief Justice dilemma  Lincoln-Douglas Taney’s regarding Jim Debates decision in the  Banned books,  John Dred Scott case controversial (4 weeks) Brown/Bleeding vocabulary in Kansas John Brown’s literature final speech  Election of 1860  Satire Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis

III  Causes/effects of The Mystery of  Effects on war on  Analytical A Nation Civil War Heroism by individual essay on Divided: War  Key battles/turning Crane character impact of and points – Bull Run, development Civil War Reconstruction Gettysburg, Occurrence at  Emotional  Test Vicksburg Owl Creek expression  Impact of Lincoln Bridge by through literature  Change in national Bierce  Impact of war on identity – “United national identity States are to United Selected poems States is” by  Major issues Whitman, (3 weeks) surrounding Dickinson Reconstruction  Election of 1876 and Entries from Compromise of Mary Chestnut 1877 Emancipation Proclamation End of M.P. 1

Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis IV  Reasons for Sculptor’s  Realism in  Analytical Frontier to westward expansion Funeral – literature Essay on Factory  Culture of west and Cather  Small town life Gilded Age – influence on compared to Robber American character Outcasts of urban life Barons v.  Urbanization and Poker Flats –  Impacts of Captains of Gilded Age –shift Harte industrialization Industry from agrarian to and expansion on  Test industrial society Chicago – American  Rise of Sandburg character industrialists/robber  Flaws of barons – Carnegie, Richard Cory- urbanization – Rockefeller, etc. Robinson immorality,  Immigration – New alienation of (3 weeks) and Old Gospel of individuals Wealth - Carnegie Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis V  Domestic agendas of The Jungle-  Exposé writing  Essay written Progressives Progressive Sinclair  Social problems in muckraker and Growth of presidents –  Power of style American Roosevelt, Taft and How the Other literature in  Test Social Wilson Half Lives –Riis awakening Conscience  Meat Inspection Act America’s social  Pure Food and Drug Additional conscience Act readings from  Investigative  Square Deal period authors journalism  Triple Wall of Privilege  Political Reforms – referendum, recall, (3 weeks) initiative, 16th and 17th Amendments  Federal Reserve Act  Jane Addams  Muckrakers Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis VI  Spanish American A Farewell to  Alienation  Essay Imperialism War – causes/effects Arms –  Heroism  Test and First  Yellow journalism Hemingway  Realism World War  Reasons for  Love of country, imperialism individuals  Reasons for United  Escape from States involvement horrors of war  Home front efforts–  Impact of war on (3 weeks) liberty bonds, etc. personality  Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations End of 1st Midterm semester Exam History Literature English Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis Assessments Unit/Time Frame

VI  American reaction to The Great  Pursuit of the  Test The 1920s World War I Gatsby – American Dream  Essay on  1st Red Scare Fitzgerald  Image of modern Gatsby  Major issues of woman  Cotton Club 1920s – jazz,  Overview of the analysis women’s liberation, Selected poems decade automobile, from Harlem  Harlem prohibition, Renaissance Renaissance fundamentalism v. writers –  Cotton Club modernism Hughes, et al simulation  Scopes’ trial (4 weeks)  Harlem Renaissance  Growth of mass consumer culture Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis VIII  Stock Market Crash Of Mice and  Plight of migrant  Test The Great  Hoover’s reaction to Men – workers  Essay Depression Depression Steinbeck  Friendship  Character and New Deal  Bonus Army  Pursuit of the Journal  Election of 1932 Excerpts from American Dream  Photo  FDR’s programs – The Grapes of  Exploitation analysis CCC, FDIC, WPA, Wrath  Loneliness TVA, SEC, Social Security  Bank holiday, fireside chats  Critics and court- (3 weeks) packing scheme  Oakies  Dorothea Lange’s photographs  Impact of New Deal on American philosophy

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IX  Causes/Effects of Selected war  Test The Second war letters  Essay World War  Pearl Harbor  Letters and Its  American Home Aftermath front –rationing, war bonds, impact of women  Manhattan Project and Atomic Bomb  Japanese internment (2 weeks) camps  Marshall Plan  War crimes trials  Division of Germany End of M.P.3

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X  Truman Doctrine The Crucible –  Extremism and  Test The Cold War  Korean War Miller paranoia  Essay  Eisenhower’s  Impact of mass Administration – hysteria key actions  Rumors and  McCarthyism and unjust 2nd Red Scare accusations  Eisenhower Doctrine  Character  Popular culture – assassination (3 weeks) rock ‘n roll, baby boom, conformity  Levittown Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis

XI  Turbulent 60s A Gathering of Social and  JFK – Bay of Pigs, Old Men – Political Cuban Missile Crisis Gaines Rebellion  JFK assassination  LBJ – Great Society Letter From and War on Poverty Birmingham  Counterculture Jail – MLK movement  Civil Rights – Little Selected letters Rock Nine, Freedom from Vietnam Riders, Freedom Vets (4 weeks) Summer, Voting Rights Act Protest music  Vietnam War – causes/impact  Tet Offensive Unit/Time History Literature English Assessments Frame Content/Emphasis Component Content/Emphasis

XII  Nixon – relationship Post - Modern with China and American Soviet Union  Watergate  Carter – Iranian hostage crisis, gas shortages, Camp David Accords  Reagan – return to conservatism, economic program, Iran Contra Affair (2 weeks)  End of Cold War