syllabus


 * Syllabus **


 * Course Name: 11th Grade American History Advisor: Ms. Draksler **
 * Time: 4th Seminar (10:45-11:33 am) **
 * Location: Room 147 **


 * Trimester 3 Syllabus **
 * *Course Description: ** American History is a mandatory, one-year course for all Juniors enrolled at BHHS. This third Trimester, we will focus on early 20th Century and modern American History. This course enhances a student’s ability to apply reading and writing skills in a mature approach to construct an understanding of America’s rich and intricate history, its social, political, and economic fabric, and its numerous and diverse cultures.

***Propel American History Website:** __ http://propelamericanhistory.wikispaces.com/ __*


 * *Objectives: ** The study of American History provides students with the information and skills necessary to assess the timeline of America’s historical content both personally and within the different perspectives brought to the class by the students’ and teachers’ diverse experiences.


 * *Assessments: __The students will be assessed one time in the form of a Final Exam.*__ **
 * *Grading: ** The students in American History should expect to receive grades based on participation in: daily warm-ups, wrap-ups, class activities, quizzes, tests, reading assignments, writing assignments, concrete and digital projects, digital learning, and others based on necessary accommodations and modifications.


 * *Goals for Trimester Three: ** The Student Will Be Able to Define, Describe, Demonstrate, Question, Evaluate, and Formulate Understanding of the Following Themes using the 5 American Ideals of Equality, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, Democracy
 * ** The Twenties **
 * Understanding Postwar Tensions, the Politics of Normalcy, Popular Culture, the Clash Between Traditionalism and Modernism
 * ** The Great Depression and the New Deal **
 * Causes of, Response to, Human Impact on, and Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal
 * ** World War II **
 * Origins, Impact of, Fighting, and Aftermath of the War
 * ** The Fifties **
 * Peace, Prosperity, and Progress, Rebelling Against Conformity, Two Americas
 * ** The Civil Rights through the 5 American Ideals **
 * Segregation in Post-WWII America, The Civil Rights Revolution, Redefining Equality: From Black Power to Affirmative Action, the Widening Struggle
 * ** The Sixties **
 * The Age of Camelot, the Great Society, the Emergence of a Counterculture
 * ** The Seventies **
 * The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon, Politics and Society in the “Me Decade”
 * ** The Reagan Revolution **
 * The Shift to the Right Under Reagan, Ending the Cold War
 * ** Framing the Present **
 * US Domestic Politics at the Turn of the 21st Century, US Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, 9/11 and Its Aftermath: Debating America’s Founding Ideals