A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12 SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968) FIRST TOPIC: I. WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE TAMING OF THE WEST (c.1840-96) TIME: 4 WEEKS THEME ASPECT CONTENT & AIMS RESOURCES TIME ASSES. HWK. 1. The Doctrine of a. Geographical & Political Map of states and geography Text:Brogan:map 1 & 4 Semester Timed Complete Manifest Destiny Background Diagram of US constitution Glossary & Blank Maps 1 Essay Maps & Basic Terms Glossary of terms Booklet (MN) Week 1 Tests to be Glossary part of b. American Colonial Colonial attitudes summarized ‘ Week 1 ACW & Its Origins: continuous thinking Differences between the 1846-61’ Alan Farmer assess. WASP and Hispanic/Gallic ‘Penguin History of criteria approach the USA’ Hugh Brogan along with c. Doctrine of ‘Manifest Ideology or Excuse? Booklet (MN) Week 1 tests on Destiny’ The Real Motives behind US other expansionism themes (= 4 tests in 2. Wars and a. The Annexation of Reasons Booklet (MN) Week 2 total of Conquests Texas Nature – ‘Myth versus Reality’ ‘The Alamo’ (film 40% Discussion of film, ‘The Alamo’ clips) weighting Consequences ‘American History’ by of S1 final Farmer & Sanders grade; EST b. War with Mexico Causes Booklet (MN) Week 2 exam = Complete Nature Maps 60%) booklet Consequences http://www.worldatlas.com/webi exercises mage/testmaps/maps.htm All lessons 3. Westward a. Mormons & Utah Mormon beliefs Booklet (MN) Week 2 will include Expansion Brigham Young Maps ‘starters’ as Salt Lake City Internet Site: a way of Opposition www.wwnorton.com/america6 reinforcing including: b. The Oregon Expansion Mountain Men Booklet (MN) Week 2 splatt, The Pioneer Trails & Means Maps historical- Settlement in the North-West hangman, c. The Railroads Significance of the railroads: Booklet (MN) Week 3 spelling social, economic and political Maps bee, word d. Native Americans Culture and Tribes Booklet (MN) Week 3 searches, Complete Impact of whites Maps etc. Mix & Why Natives defeated Matches e. Forty-Niners and Gold rush of 1849 Booklet (MN) Week 4 California How California became a state Maps Plenary f. The 1850 Compromise Terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Booklet (MN) Week 4 Exercises settlement and its implications Maps g. The Wild West – Myth Compare and Contrast Clips of 1950s & Week 4 and Reality traditional & revisionist images modern Western films A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12 h. The Later West Summary of Inventions Booklet (MN) Week 4 Study for End of the Frontier (Turner) Maps Test Why Wild West ended Internet A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
THIRD TOPIC: III. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1861-1877) TIME: 5 WEEKS THEME ASPECT CONTENT & AIMS RESOURCES TIME ASSES HWK 1. The Civil a. The Sides Map of states involved Tracing paper Semester Timed test War Strengths Booklet (MN) 1 essays (1861-1865) Weaknesses Maps Weeks 10- (part of http://www.worldatlas.com/webi 12 cont. mage/testmaps/maps.htm assess. b. The Leadership Abraham Lincoln Booklet (MN) weighting Table to fill Jefferson Davis Feature film: ‘Lincoln’ procedure- in c. The Border States Kansas Booklet (MN) set four Missouri Maps essays in S1; total d. The Military Aspects The nature of the armies Feature film: ‘Glory’ weighting = Campaigns & Battles Booklet (MN) th 40%, i.e. 54 Massachusetts Regt. Maps each essay e. The Europeans British attitudes Booklet (MN) is worth Diplomatic initiatives Maps 10% of final f. The Emancipation Why passed by Lincoln Booklet (MN) grade; EST Proclamation Consequences Maps = 60%) g. The Confederate State Weaknesses of political system Booklet (MN) h. Wartime Union politics Civil liberties Booklet (MN) All lessons will include 1864 elections ‘Gangs of New York’ ‘starters’ as i. Grant & Lee Comparisons and Contrasts https://marknicholshistory.wikisp Table to fill aces.com a way of reinforcing in j. Why did the South lose? Reasons for Confederate Spider diagram including: failure splatt, 2. a. Effects of the War Comparison bt. North & South Table to fill in Week 13- historical- Reconstruction b. Reconstruction Lincoln and Johnson’s Booklet (MN) 14 hangman, spelling (1865-1877) programs ‘ American History’ bee, word Congressional attitudes Farmer & Sanders searches, Impeachment of Johnson etc. c. Effects of Reconstruction On blacks Booklet (MN) Plenary Compare On White Southerners Hugh Brogan: ‘The Exercises & The Younger-James gang Penguin History of the Contrasts US’ table d. Grant’s Presidency New emphases Booklet (MN) Policies towards blacks e. End of Reconstruction Reinstatement of status Booklet (MN) quo in the South? A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12 SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
SIXTH TOPIC: VI. CIVIL RIGHTS (1895-1968) TIME: 5 WEEKS THEME ASPECT CONTENT & AIMS RESOURCES TIME ASSES HWK 1. The Position of a. Black Approaches Condition of Blacks in 1900 Booklet (MN) Semester Timed test Research Blacks in 1900 Washington v. Du Bois 2 essays on early Week 11 (part of leaders b. NAACP Aims and Achievements Booklet (MN) continuous assess. Weaknesses and failures weighting 2. WWI and Black a. Black Soldiers Experiences in army Booklet (MN) Week 12 procedure; People Achievements on Western front set four essays in b. Black Civilians Experiences on Home Front S2; total weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final 3. Racism a. The KKK Origins Booklet (MN) grade; Aims and Actions Mock = Revival 60%) b. The South Jim Crow, etc. All lessons c. The North Nature of discrimination will include Which was worse: North or ‘starters’ as South? a way of 4. The 1930s and 40s a. The New Deal How did Roosevelt affect blacks? Booklet (MN) Week 13 reinforcing b. WWII What was the role of blacks? Clip from ‘American including: ‘Zoot suit’ riots Me’ splatt, historical- hangman, 5. The Fight for Civil a. Schools The Brown Case Booklet (MN) Week 14 spelling bee, word Rights b. Martin Luther King Jnr. Biography of King Excerpts of searches, Non –Violent tactics Feature Films: etc. c. Violent action Malcolm X, Carmichael, Cleaver ‘Malcolm X’ Table of Black Muslims ‘Mississippi Burning’ comparing Black Panthers & Sam Cooke’s music MX & MLK Plenary th 6. Achievements and a. Legal Progress Civil rights Acts/24 Amendment Booklet (MN) Week 15 Exercises Tragedies b. Violence Assassinations Obituaries of Rosa www.dailyteleg raph.co.uk Riots – Watts, etc. Parks c. Native Americans & Civil rights of Indians Other Minorities Civil rights of Chinese, etc. d. The Overall Bill Assessment of the struggle A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12 SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968) SECOND TOPIC: II SOURCEWORK: THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1846-1861) TIME: 5 WEEKS THEME ASPECT, AIMS & CONTENT RESOURCES TIME ASSES. HWK 1. The Question Debate over slavery – pro and abolitionist viewpoints ‘The American Civil Semester Timed test of Slavery Debate over extension of slavery into new states War & Its Origins 1 essays Compromise solutions like the Mason-Dixie line 1848-65’ Alan Farmer Week 5 (part of cont Booklet (MN) assess. weighting procedure; set four 2. States’ Rights Debate on whether states had the right to secede Booklet (MN) Week 6 essays in Views of states rightists and unionists S1; total The Constitution – was it flawed? weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final 3. The Economic Mutually exclusive economic systems – incompatible? Booklet (MN) Week 7 grade; EST Create Divide Diagramatic and graphical representations of the Graphs = 60%) graphs on economic systems Statistics North- All lessons South will include ‘starters’ as divide 4. The Leading Biographies and roles of major figures including: Clay, Booklet (MN) Week 7 a way of Finish Protagonists Calhoun, Douglas, Seward, Buchanan and Lincoln reinforce. papers for Fill in biographical details on pre-War presidents and includ: Hwk their culpability for the events of 1861-65 splatt, historical- hangman, spelling 5. The Key Crises 1848-50 Booklet (MN) Week 9 bee, word 1860-1861 searches, Could War have broken out before 1861? etc.
6. The Traditional Views Booklet (MN) Week 9 Historiography Revisionist views Plenary Exercises
7. Practice Papers Go over source techniques UCLES Past papers Week 9- Practice past papers www.teachers.cie.org.uk 10 Timed test essays www.students.cie.org.uk A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR GCE LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968) FIFTH TOPIC: V BOOM AND BUST(1920-1941) TIME: 7 WEEKS THEME ASPECT CONTENT & AIMS RESOURCES TIME ASSES HWK 1. The Post-War a. Against Reasons for US isolationism Booklet (MN) Semester 2 Timed test Why US Reaction Internationalism Attitudes towards League of Week 1 essays stayed out Nations (part of of continuous LEAGUE assess. b. Against Progressivism Reasons for new weighting conservatism procedure; c. Election of Harding/Coolidge and their ethos set four Republicans essays in 2. Prohibition a. Motives Why prohibition passed Booklet (MN) Week 2 S2; total b. Nature Gangsterism ‘The Untouchables’ weighting = Corruption feature film 40%, i.e. c. Impact Criminalisation of USA each essay is worth 3. The 1920s a. Society Culture: Music, Dance, Fashion Booklet (MN) Week 3 10% of final Boom b. Economy Investment ‘The Great Gatsby’ grade; Industry and Farming feature film Mock = Financial Scandals 60%) Bigotry & Prejudice All lessons 4. The Great a. Causes Overproduction Booklet (MN) Week 4-5 will include Complete Depression Innate Poverty Flow diagrams to ‘starters’ as flow Credit systems explain causation of a way of diagrams Protectionism Great Depression reinforcing b. Nature Unemployment including: Homelessness splatt, Internal Migration historical- hangman, Feature film: ‘The Bankruptcies spelling c. Impact Hoovervilles Grapes of Wrath’ bee, word Riots, Marches and Strikes Encourage students searches, Danger of revolution? to read Steinbeck etc. 5. The New Deal a. Purpose & Aims ‘Nothing to fear, but fear itself’ Booklet (MN) Week 9 b. Nature Various bodies that were Plenary Mix/Match created: CCC, AAA, NRA, WPA, Exercises Exercises c. Opposition Supreme Court, etc. 6. Assessment of a. Positives Alleviation of suffering Booklet (MN) Week 10 the New Deal b. Negatives Did it conquer unemployment? c. Role of WWII The real cure for the Depression? A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR GCE LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
FOURTH TOPIC: IV. THE USA’S RISE AS A WORLD POWER (1890-1945) TIME: 4 WEEKS THEME ASPECT CONTENT & AIMS RESOURCES TIME ASSES. HWK 1. The Rise of US a. The Old Myth Debunk idea America was Blank Maps of World Semester Timed test Map of US Imperialism not an imperialist nation 1 essays (part of colonies b. 1898 Annexation of Spanish Maps of Americas Week 14 continuous empire: Cuba, Puerto Rico & Feature Film: ‘The assess. weighting the Philippines Rough Riders’ procedure; set c. The Canal Control over Panama and Booklet (MN) four essays in motives behind it S1; total d. Teddy Roosevelt Roosevelt’s Policies Booklet (MN) weighting = 40%, i.e. each 2. US and WWI a. 1914-17 Neutrality and reasons behind it Booklet (MN) Week 15 essay is worth b. 1917-1918 Reasons for entry into WWI Booklet (MN) 10% of final US contribution to victory grade; EST = Effects of War on US incl. debts 60%) and reparations All lessons will c. Woodrow Wilson The Fourteen Points Booklet (MN) include Versailles ‘starters’ as a The League of Nations way of 3. Post-WWI a. Isolationism Rejection of Versailles Booklet (MN) Week 16 reinforcing Policy Refusal to join League of Nations including: b. Neutrality Washington Conferences Booklet (MN) splatt, Table to fill Kellog-Briand Pact historical- in on Dawes and Young Plans hangman, confers. 4. FDR’s Policy a. Partial Isolationism Booklet (MN) Week 17 spelling bee, ‘Good neighbour’ policy word searches, Policy in the Far East etc. b. WWII Neutrality acts Booklet (MN) Lend-Lease Feature Film: ‘Pearl War with Japan and Germany Harbor’ US contribution to victory
Plenary Exercises 5. Post-WWII a. Wartime Conferences Yalta Booklet (MN) Week 17 Policy Potsdam San Francisco & UNO b. The First Superpower The USA in 1945 Booklet (MN) A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR GCE LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968) VII. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS (1945-68) TIME: 4 WEEKS THEME ASPECT CONTENT RESOURCES TIME ASSESSMENT 1. a. b. c. d.
2. a. b. c. d. 3. a. Timed Essay in Class 4.
Timed Essay in Class 5.
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