This Decolonized U.S. History course is the first of a two-semester long course. This course should be taken concurrently with my 11th-grade Revolutionary Rhetoric English course. Throughout the first 14 weeks, students will examine primary and secondary sources from various American perspectives (i.e., Indigenous, Colonial Settler, African American, and Immigrant). In this way, we will explore our nation's origin and key political events to determine who we truly are. Live sessions take place once per week. New material (including vocabulary) will be provided during each class. 

Students will also learn grade-level appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills.

Homework will consist of readings with text-dependent questions and short answer questions. Two original essays and a project will also be required during the course.

🎓Units of study include:

📚Unit 1- Industrialization & The Gilded Age
📚Unit 2- Progressivism, Roaring 20s, The Great Depression, and WWI
📚Unit 3- The Cold War & The Civil Rights Movement
📚Unit 4- New Conservativism & Globalization

Week 1-- Intro to Industrialization & The Gilded Age
Week 2-- Transcontinental Railroad; Sitting Bull & Custer (Ghost Dance Movement)
Week 3-- Rockefeller and Carnegie; Ellis Island and Immigration (Workers' Rights Movement)
Week 4-- Wilmington Race Riot; DuBois & Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett & Henry McNeal Turner
Week 5-- Theodore Roosevelt (New Nationalism), John Muir (National Parks Movement) & Progressivism
Week 6-- Spanish American War, Puerto Rico, & Carlisle Indian Industrial School 
Week 7-- Woodrow Wilson & The Birth of a Nation (Ku Klux Klan); WWI
Week 8-- The Great Migration & Jacob Lawrence (Video Essay #1 Due)
Week 9-- The Great Depression; FDR, The New Deal & WPA; Woodie Guthrie
Week 10--A. Philip Randolph; WWII
Week 11-- Korean War; McCarthy; Truman & Eisenhower
Week 12--Brown v. Board of Education & School Desegregation; Civil Rights Movement; Mississippi Freedom Party; The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Week 13--Jimmy Carter; Reaganomics & Mass Incarceration; The Cold War Revisited
Week 14--Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump, and Biden: How did we get here? Where do we go from here? (Final Reflections Due)

My teaching style is interactive. I am not the sage on the stage. Instead, I am a facilitator and guide. Therefore, lecture time is limited to 20 minutes for each class period. The remaining class time is allocated to a whole-group discussion, think-pair-share, and Socratic Seminar. In this course, we learn and grow together.