U.S. History 3
Prelude to the Present, 1920-1960
U.S. History, Book 3, 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. Four sections focus on specialized topics covering the period 1920-1960. Part 1 examines how urbanization produced cultural conflicts with the values of an older, rural America. Part 2 focuses on the events that produced fundamental changes in the direction of government, organized labor, and business. Part 3 studies Pearl Harbor, America’s role in World War II, and domestic changes of that era. Part 4 explores postwar reaction, the Cold War, the Korean War, McCarthyism, and the civil rights movement.
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.
Price: $39.95
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 a visual display of the spin-offs of the automobile revolution, create slogans and buttons for political campaigns of the 1920s and 1940s, write diary entries from the perspective of a teenager during World War II, and relate the Harlem Renaissance to later developments in the civil rights movement.
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