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, and how reliable the resource is.
They will know what primary and secondary sources are.
They will be able to relate the historical sources we read to the aspect of United States government that we are studying.
They will be able to related historical sources to modern day issues.
They will understand certain aspects of United States government and how those aspects changed throughout the country's history.

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. 
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Students will be assessed through the work that they complete and turn in. I will respond to assignments that are turned in.
Grades Offered

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.