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Critical Thinking

• Primary Source Analysis (for Advanced Placement and World Studies Program) - developed by Adrian Gannon
  • Introduction to unit
  • Standards
  • Table of contents
  • What is a primary source?
  • Introduction to Primary Source Analysis (PSA)
  • Analyzing primary sources
  • Class and group discussions on the PSAs
  • Introduction of data based questions (DBQ)
  • Develop, construct, and present a DBQ
  • Group/peer evaluation of DBQs
  • Completion of assigned primary sources
  • Completion of assigned DBQs
  • Portfolio of work

   

History

U.S. History

• Analysis, Application, Evaluation, and Creation of Sources: The American Civil War - developed by Kyle Neville
  • Introduction
  • John Brown Stanford and rubric
    • accompanying documents
  • American Civil War visual discovery and rubric
  • Gettysburg film analysis and evaluation and rubric
  • Document based assessment and rubric
  • Create your own memorial (summative) and rubric
    • Gettysburg Address analysis and evaluation (formative) and rubric
    • Civil War letter analysis and evaluation (formative) and rubric
    • Civil War music analysis (formative) and rubric

• Industrial Revolution Unit - developed by Nick Guido
• Introduction
• Standards
• Create a business
• Invention Handbook
• Be the cartographer
• City solutions brochure
• Industrial Revolution hands-on-history discussion
• Communist Manifesto
• Industrial Revolution DBQ
  • Formative assessment: Document interpretation
  • Formative assessment: Thesis creation
  • Formative assessment: Analyzing bias
  • Formative assessment: Organization
  • Summative assessment: Document based question

• Advanced Placement U.S. History - developed by Meghan James
  • Overview of units
  • Outlining chapters
  • Vocabulary builder
  • Thesis writing
  • Primary source analysis
  • Founding a colony
  • Colony map identification
  • Introduction to writing the Document Based Question Essay (DBQ)
  • Colonial newspaper
  • Comparing the Articles of Confederation and The Constitution
  • Hamilton vs. Jefferson debate
  • The Marshall Court - Marbury v. Madison
  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Reform movements jigsaw
  • Slave narratives
  • Civil War concept map
  • Reconstruction plan

• Technology through the Ages - grades 9-10 - from the State of Washington

 

• Causes of Conflicts - grades 9-10 - from the State of Washington

 

• Dig Deep - grade 11 - from the State of Washington

• American History
• Commemorative stamp (create a stamp and essay)
  • see example stamps
• Taking sides in American history (debate)
• Dramatic presentation and rubric
• The American games (design a game)
• Argumentative essay and rubric
• Tea Party: Presentation, seminar and debate
• More course resources including student exemplars

• Revolutionary Period - developed by Mandy Montford
  • Revolutionary War Similes
  • Revolutionary War Compare/Contrast (group task)
  • Consequences of Revolutionary War -- broadside ballad (group task)
  • Declaration of Independence Survey
  • Enlightenment in the Colonies -- write a newspaper editorial
  • Causes/Consequences of French and Indian War -- concept map
  • Mercantilism Case Study (group task)
  • Essay on Contributions of African Slavery to Ethnocentrism/Racism Today

World History

• Ancient Greece - developed by Dana Romano
  • Overview
  • Standards
  • Ancient Greece pre-test
  • Greece map creation (includes formative tasks)
  • Minoan and Mycenaean DBQ
    • Formative task
    • Formative task
    • Formative task
  • Persuasive Athens/Sparta essay
  • Illiad/hero journey
  • Persian War vocabulary quiz
  • Greek philosphers socratic seminar (includes formative tasks)
  • Greek God Facebook page
  • Alexander the Great constructed responses
  • Hellenistic cultural diffusion e-response

• World History to the 16th Century
• Illuminating the past (essay and poster)
• Historical essay movie review
• Great debate
• Feature presentations on ancient civilizations
• Medieval production, tournament and feast in Word
• More course resources including student exemplars

Global Studies

• China and Japan - developed by Katja Stonebraker
  • American Exchange Student in Japan
  • Culture Wheel
  • Japan's Role in WWII Timeline
  • Landlord Wang Essay and Debate
  • Letter to Qianlong Emperor
  • Marco Polo's Kanbalu
  • Metaphors for Japanese Borrowing
  • High School Rules
  • You are the Tour Guide

   

Government and Civics

• Check and Balances - grade 11 - from the State of Washington

 

• Constitutional Issues - grade 11 - from the State of Washington

 

• U.S. Foreign Policy - grade 11 - from the State of Washington

Geography

• Cultural Interactions - grade 12 - from the State of Washington

 

• Humans and the Environment - grades 9-10 - from the State of Washington

Economics

• You and the Economy - grade 12 - from the State of Washington

 

• Government Revenue and Responsibility - grade 12 - from the State of Washington

 

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