PAPERBACK ATLAS Bring US history to life for your students by immersing them in the places where events unfolded.
Students advance their reading and writing skills as they immerse themselves in colonial life and decide to ally with either the Loyalists or the Patriots.
The lessons cover (1) evaluating evidence and primary source documents, (2) analyzing visual primary sources, (3) analyzing the question, (4) developing a thesis statement, (5) outlining and planning essay structure, (6) crafting an introductory paragraph, (7) writing and linking support paragraphs, and (8) summing up and concluding.
Nine curriculum units, with two completely new units, help students reflect on the impact and legacy of September 11, 2001.
The five projects—Colonial Convention, Multiple Perspectives on the American Revolution, Cost-Benefit Analysis of War, The Conservation Movement and Me, and Making Music: Politics, Culture, and Entertainment—each include implementation guidelines, an attention-grabbing "Entry Event" designed to inspire a creative thought process and introduce a problem or challenge, reproducible handouts, rubrics, and alignments to the key concepts […]
Lesson titles include "The Columbian Exchange," "Early Resistance to Colonial Authority," "British Colonial Policy: A Tradition of Neglect," "Testing the Constitution: The Whiskey Rebellion and the Frontier," and "The Settlement of the Northwest Territory.
Lesson titles include "The Development of Political Parties," "The Mexican War: Was It in the National Interest?," "Assessment of Lincoln’s Presidency," and "The Populist Movement: The Value of Third Parties.
Lesson titles include "The Rise of Labor Unions and Workers’ Ambivalences, 1870–1910," “Isolation: Fact or Revisionist Battleground?," "McCarthyism and the Climate of Fear," "Economic Recovery after World War II," and "Nixon, China, and Detente.
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