United States History II (Full Year) - Part 2 of 4 - Self-Paced
Nicole Trusky
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In this 8 week course, students will study US History from the dawning of the Cult of Domesticity, through the Civil War, and up to the turn of the 20th Century. This is part 2 of a full year of US History.
Class experience
This is part two of a four part series covering United States History. If all four parts are taken, this is a full year of US History. There are in class and/or homework assignments each week. If a student completes all in class assignments, reading, and homework, this four part class could be used a credit on a high school transcript depending on your state's homeschool requirements. This US History II class is meant to be versatile in that it can be taken after US History I for students...
8 lessons//8 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1Lesson One-Topics covered: women in the 19th Century, gender divide in early America -Cult of Domesticity lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 2: "As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs" chapter in A Young People's History of the UnitedWeek 2Lesson 2Lesson Two-Topics covered: immigration, racism and discrimination in the 19th Century -Irish in 19th Century America lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 3: "War with Mexico" chapter in A Young People's History of the United StatesWeek 3Lesson 3Lesson Three-Topics covered: racism and discrimination in the 19th Century, Westward Expansion -Juana Briones lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 4: "Slavery and Emancipation" chapter in A Young People's History of the United StatesWeek 4Lesson 4Lesson Four-Topics covered: Civil War, Reconstruction, racism and discrimination in the 19th Century -Reconstruction lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 5: noneWeek 5Lesson 5Lesson Five-Topics covered: racism and discrimination in the 19th Century, Native American boarding school, forced assimilation -Carlisle Indian School lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 6: "The Other Civil War" chapter in A Young People's History of the United StatesWeek 6Lesson 6Lesson Six-Topics covered: workers rights, labor unions, labor strikes -Albert Parsons lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 7: "Robber Barons and Rebels" chapter in A Young People's History of the United StatesWeek 7Lesson 7Lesson Seven-Topics covered: workers rights, Populism -Election of 1896 lesson -Original Pledge of Allegiance lesson Suggested Reading prior to Week 8: "The American Empire" chapter in A Young People's History of the United StatesWeek 8Lesson 8Lesson Eight-Topics covered: American Imperialism -Annexation of Hawaii lesson
When students complete this class, they should be able to look at any historic document and "source" it. They will be able to determine who the author is, what the author's authority is, when the source was written and if that date impacts the source's reliability. They will also know how to take two accounts of the same story and pull corroborating facts out. They will know how to determine which sources are reliable and which are not. They will know what primary and secondary sources are. They will know how to determine which sources should be used for a research paper and which should not. They will learn key events and concepts in early America including Reconstruction, Westward Expansion, immigration, labor unions/strikes, Imperialism, and more.
My Masters degree is in American Studies and I spent a great deal of my graduate studies focusing on the Civil War, Westward Expansion, and the Industrial Revolution. I have been teaching this course in person to homeschoolers for a year and have been teaching History on Outschool for almost as long. I am constantly reading new works from prominent historians and I attend professional development courses each summer through The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which helps me keep up to date on historical scholarship.
Homework Offered
Each week, students will have work to do that would have been considered "in class" work if this were a live class. Instead, this could all be considered homework and students should expect there to be work to do each week. All work will be given in pdf form so that students can print the worksheets or they can upload the pdf to kamiapp.com and type directly onto the pdf. Students are strongly encouraged to read A Young People's History of the United States throughout the class. If they are participating in the reading, all reading will be done as homework.1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Student progress will be assessed through their class work.Grades Offered
Grades provided by request at end of class.
Students will be given pdfs each week that contain the in-class work and homework. These pdfs need to be printed or if the student prefers to type answers, pdfs can be uploaded to the Kami App website and students can type directly onto the pdfs. Students are strongly encouraged to use A Young People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, though another US History book that covers all of these topics can be substituted.
As with any US History course, we will be covering topics like death, war, racism, slavery, and sexism. I will not shy away from these topics, but will help the students understand that though racism, slavery, sexism, etc. are part of the fabric of American History, they are not acceptable by our standards today.
I use almost entirely primary sources as the curriculum for my History courses. Students will be reading primary sources during class and working to analyze those primary sources.
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Hi everyone! I'm Nicole Trusky, a homeschooling mom of three and lover of all things history and pop culture! I have a Master in Humanities with a concentration in American Studies and have been studying history for as long as I can remember (my...
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