U.S. History, Book 4, requires high school students to process information in order to understand continuity and change in our nation’s history. Materials are designed to help students to understand the relationship between unit themes and concepts. Five sections focus on specialized topics covering the period 1960-1990. Part 1 deals with the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Part 2 shows the impact of the Vietnam experience on America. Part 3 illustrates the reevaluation of beliefs necessitated by Watergate. Part 4 examines the Carter and Reagan administrations. Part 5 investigates the complex issues affecting our future.
Lessons are not designed to accompany a specific textbook; they supplement your U.S. history curriculum and text book.
The activities are interesting, developmental, skill-related, and promote critical thinking. Students read excerpts from primary sources, write essays and paragraphs, draw inferences, form opinions, detect cause and effect relationships, and interpret maps, charts, graphs, and cartoons. They also examine the work of investigative journalists of the 1960s and 1970s, compare campaign promises with presidential accomplishments, create a model that contrasts demand-side and supply-side economics, and conduct a survey about problems in education.
U.S. History 3,U.S. History and Geography, Book 1,U.S. History and Geography, Book 2,U.S. History 1,U.S. History 2,U.S. History 4,COMPLETE SET: 4 U.S. History Books
America in Upheaval: The 1960s,America’s Turn to the Right: The 1980s,Disillusioned America: The 1970s,Technological Revolution: The 1990s
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