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United States History: Civil War to Present | Semester Two Course
Completed by 9 learners
Ages 14-18
Live Group Course
Live video meetings
2x per week, 18 weeks
4-16 learners per class
45 min
What's included
36 live meetings
27 in-class hoursHomework
1-2 hours per week. Students will be given assignments that may consist of reading parts of the text, reading documents, watching a video clip, or completing an assessment.Assessment
The learner will be assessed based on performance on the assessments (quizzes and tests) as well as participation in the synchronous lessons. Grade weighting: Classwork/HW: 30% Tests: 50% Final Exam: 20%Certificate of Completion
Grades and certificates of completion are available, but teacher requests that you inform her at the outset of the course.Class Experience
US Grade 9 - 12
Beginner - Advanced Level
The course outline with topics of coverage is below. Classes are 45 minutes in length and meet twice per week. While each class will be varied in the delivery of instruction, the instructor will utilize presentations that are guided by a daily focus, discussion questions/prompts that encourage higher-level thinking and discussion. Additionally, there will be video clips, review games, and quizzes (using MS Forms to submit for grading, which doesn't require signing up, just a name will be entered.) Learners are strongly encouraged to ask and answer questions, as well as to respond to each others' discussion points. There is an additional meeting added to the end of the schedule that will be used as a make up session should there be any reason to cancel a scheduled session. If no meetings are cancelled, the last session will not take place. NOTE: Teacher will take special care in acknowledging and presenting multiple viewpoints that exist on the many social, political, and historical issues in the nation's history. Many groups have been marginalized; coverage of those instances will be presented/discussed using factual and historical evidence. Course Outline: UNIT 8 – World War II: Fascism, Stalin, Hitler, appeasement, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, Home Front, War Production Board, “Rosie the Riveter”, A. Philip Randolph, Japanese-American Internment, Pacific Theater, Coral Sea, Midway, “island-hopping”, Douglas MacArthur, European Theater, Operation Torch, Tehran Conference, Normandy, V-E Day, Iwo Jima, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nuremberg Trials, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, United Nations, Mary McLeod Bethune UNIT 9 – Early Cold War Conflicts and the 1950’s: Berlin blockade, Cold War, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, iron curtain, satellite nations, containment, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Nuremberg Trials, Potsdam, Truman Doctrine, Korean War, General MacArthur, Red Scare, McCarthyism, subversion, Hollywood Ten, McCarran Act, brinkmanship, arms race, massive retaliation, Suez Crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine, military-industrial complex, Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill), Interstate Highway System, generation gap, “rock-n-roll”, termination policy, Cuban Missile Crisis UNIT 10 – Era of Social Change (Civil Rights and other Social Movements): Brown v. Board of Education (1954), New Frontier, Peace Corps, Great Society, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), March on Washington, sit-ins, civil disobedience, Civil Rights Act (1964), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Freedom Riders, Voting Rights Act (1965), Stokely Carmichael, Nation of Islam, "Black Power", "Black Panthers", Civil Rights Act (1968), affirmative action, Miranda v. Arizona (1966), Gideon v. Wainright (1963), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Title IX, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), National Organization of Women (NOW), Gloria Steinem, Roe v. Wade (1973), Cesar Chavez, Delores Huerta, United Farm Workers UNIT 11 – The Vietnam War and the Counterculture Revolution: Ho Chi Minh, domino theory, French Indochina, Dien Bien Phu, nationalism, guerilla warfare, Geneva Accords, Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietcong, U.S.S. Maddox, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, “search and destroy”, napalm, Agent Orange, Ho Chi Minh Trail, credibility gap, hawks vs. doves, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), teach-in, Tet Offensive, My Lai, 1968 Election, Vietnamization, Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger, Tinker v. Des Moines, War Powers Act, Twenty-sixth Amendment UNIT 12 – Passage to a New Century / Nixon and Beyond (1975-present): Southern Strategy, détente, SALT I, Helsinki Accords, Watergate, executive privilege, “stagflation”, Camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis, affirmative action, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Love Canal, OPEC, American Indian Movement, New Conservatism, Moral Majority, supply-side economics, deregulation, apartheid, Strategic Defense Initiative, Iran-Contra Scandal, AIDS epidemic, perestroika, glasnost, Persian Gulf War, Contract with America, North America Free Trade Agreement, globalization, Bush v. Gore (2000), 9/11, terrorism, Department of Homeland Security, Patriot Act, Election of 2008, Affordable Care Act, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission(2010), Tea Party, Election of 2016 ***Minimum enrollment of four must be met.***
Learning Goals
Examine the causes, course, & consequences of World War II on the United States & the world.
Understand the rise & continuing international influence of the United States as a world leader and the impact of social &political movements on American life.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
As is often the case when learning about war, civil rights, and marginalized groups, there may be sensitive content. Be assured that I have extensive experience teaching about marginalized groups and controversial topics. I always let the facts and evidence be the guiding force behind history.
Pre-Requisites
Students should have take the first semester of US History or the equivalent thereof.
Supply List
Students should have either a physical folder/notebook to take notes in or a method of organization for computer-based notes, such as OneNote.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
www.Poptential.org
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons
pbslearningmedia.org
www.TeachingTolerance.org
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
www.loc.gov
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
3 Teaching Certificates
New Jersey Teaching Certificate in Special Education
New York Teaching Certificate in Special Education
Florida Teaching Certificate in Social Studies/History
I have 30+ years of teaching experience, which includes 25 years of teaching history and government to high school-age students. I take special care to use historical evidence and facts when teaching history and especially marginalized groups and controversial topics.
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