U.S. History 1
America: Creating the Dream, Beginnings-1865
U.S. History, Book 1, 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 from the beginnings of the nation to 1865. Part 1 studies the modification of English institutions and traditions. Part 2 demonstrates why the colonists severed ties with Britain. Part 3 illustrates how the new American republic developed its own identity. Part 4 focuses on the reforms that refined the concept of democracy. Part 5 traces the path to disunion and civil war from Lincoln through postwar America.
Lessons are not designed to accompany a specific textbook; they supplement your U.S. history curriculum and text book.
About the Series:
Social Studies curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking , reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Student Activities
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 create advertisements for potential settlers in the colonies, write campaign speeches for presidential candidates in 1800, and report on the efforts to define an American identity in the early national period.