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United States History Curriculum

What follows are a collection of assignments and readings which are commonly (but not necessarily always) used in Mr.Cornet’s courses.  They are offered here for students who may have been absent and who need to get a copy of them.   By offering them online, it is hoped that . . .

  • All students will have fewer missing/late assignments.
  • These will support the learning of students with special needs and English Language Learners by making available necessary assignments and notes to their programs' support staff and parents.
  • Advanced Placement students (both in my course and elsewhere in the nation) will have more material to review in preparation for their exam.
  • Educators around the world may find these of value to their own instructional practices.

Let me stress that these certainly do not include everything we do (absent below, for instance, would be most film pieces and discussion prompts).  Rather, the curriculum which follows represent a collection of assignments commonly utilized in class and offer a glimpse of the type of material and learning's the course covers.  Questions may be directed to the instructor at John.Cornet@Phoenix.K12.Or.Us

LINK KEY:
Lec (Lecture slides),  BrS (Brainstorm),  Rea (Reading),  Inq (Inquiry),  * (indicates questions accompany the assignment)
 
General things
……...............REA...........…...................  Course Syllabus
…................................INQ*...................   Historical Thinking Skills
Settlement to 1754
LEC    BrS      Rea      Inq     1600-1700    Motivations Underpinning Colonial Settlement
LEC    BrS      REA    Inq     1600-1764    Development of Colonial Regional Culture
LEC    BrS      Rea      INQ* 1692              Salem Witch Trials
LEC    BrS      Rea      Inq     1753-1764    French and Indian War (causes and outcome)
Grievances, war and forming a new nation
Lec      BRS    Rea      Inq     1600-1753    English-Influenced Tensions During the Colonial Era
LEC    BRS*   Rea      Inq     1764-1776    Accumulation of Grievances
LEC    BrS      Rea      Inq     1776-1781    Revolutionary War
Lec      BrS      REA*  INQ* 1780             Benedict Arnold
Lec      BrS      REA*  Inq     1783             Treaty of 1783
LEC    BRS*   Rea      Inq     1781-1789    Forming a New Government
Lec      BrS      REA    Inq     1781-1791    Comparisons of Federalist/Anti-Federalist Views
A young nation finds it footing
LEC    BrS       Rea     Inq      1743-1826    Thomas Jefferson
LEC    BrS       Rea     Inq      1803             Louisiana Purchase
LEC    BrS       Rea     Inq      1804-1806    Lewis and Clark Expedition
LEC    BrS       Rea     Inq      1800-1837    Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
Lec      BRS     Rea     Inq      1816-1824    Era of Good Feelings
Lec      BRS*   Rea     Inq      1824-1840    Jacksonian Era
Lec      BrS      REA*  Inq      1801-1837    Contrasting Principles of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy
Antebellum, war and reconstruction
LEC    BrS      REA*  Inq      1787-1861    Antebellum and Slavery
LEC    BrS      Rea      Inq      1860             Election of 1860
LEC    BrS      REA*  INQ    1861-1865    Civil War
LEC    BrS      Rea      Inq      1865             Assassination of Lincoln
LEC    BRS*   Rea*    Inq      1865-1877    Reconstruction
Opening of the 20th Century
LEC    BRS     Rea       Inq      1877-1893    Gilded Age
LEC    BrS      Rea*     Inq      1894-1912    Progressive Era
Lec      BRS     Rea      Inq      1896-1954    Conditions which pre-stage the modern Civil Rights movement
LEC    BRS*   Rea       Inq      1914-1918    World War I
LEC    BrS       Rea      Inq      1918             Anastasia and Rasputin mythology
Lec      BRS*   Rea      Inq      1820-1920    Suffragette Movement
LEC    BRS*   Rea       Inq      1919-1929    Roaring Twenties
Lec      BRS     Rea       Inq      1896-1954    Early Foundations of Civil Rights Movements
Lec      BrS      REA*   Inq      1919-1929    Flappers
Lec      BrS      REA*   Inq      1919-1933    Prohibition
Economic collapse and domestic response
LEC     BrS       REA*  Inq      1929-1937    Great Depression
Lec       BRS     Rea      Inq      1929-1933    Hoover Administration
Lec       BRS*   Rea      Inq      1932-1939    New Deal and pre-war FDR
A world at war
LEC     BRS*    REA*  Inq     1939-1945    World War II    (excluding the Shoah)
Lec       BrS       REA*  Inq     1941-1945    Japanese American Internment Camps
LEC      BrS       Rea     Inq     1933-1945    Shoah / Holocaust
LEC      BrS       Rea     Inq     1945-1946    Post-war
Cold War
LEC   BRS1*  BRS2*  BRS3   1917-1991    Cold War  (a political science interpretation)
Embrace of and challenges to civil liberties
Lec      BRS*   Rea       Inq     1950-1959    The Fifties
LEC    BRS*   Rea        Inq     1950-1975    Vietnam
LEC    BRS*   REA*    INQ   1954-1969    Civil Rights Movement
Lec      BrS      REA*    Inq     1967             ‘I am Joaquin’ poem by Rodolfo Gonzales
LEC     BRS*  REA*    Inq     1960-1969    The Sixties
LEC     BrS     Rea        Inq     1969-1975    Nixon
LEC     BrS     Rea        Inq     1975             Impeachment (Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, Trump)
Other modern topics
LEC     BrS     Rea       Inq     1955-2003    Space Race
Lec      BRS*  Rea       Inq     1970-1979    The Seventies
LEC     BrS     Rea       Inq     1979-1988    AIDS
LEC     BrS     Rea       Inq     2001-2018    The era of terrorism
Broad overview thematic topics
Lec      BRS*    Rea     Inq      1600-1970    American Religious Movements
Lec      BRS*    Rea     Inq      1760-1986    Brief Overview of Immigration in America
Textbook and AP Resources
PDF      LINK1  assignment*     American Pageant: A History of the American People, 12th edition, by D.Kennedy and L.Cohen
2020     2011      Link2  Link3    AP Crash Course resources (the 2020 version is for the current exam)
LINK1  LINK2  Link3  Link4    Past AP exams in the public domain.