Term Themes for 2019-20:
Overarching Theme: A focus on the five skills of civic education:
1. Develop and defending arguments
2. Finding/Using/Evaluating information
3. Collaborating with others
4. Deliberation of ideas
5. Solving problems
1. Develop and defending arguments
2. Finding/Using/Evaluating information
3. Collaborating with others
4. Deliberation of ideas
5. Solving problems
Unit 1: 1898-1945
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
Key Concept 1.1: Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass migration.
Key Concept 1.2: A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass culture and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under the pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
Key Concept 1.3: Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies renewed debates over the nation’s values and its role in the world while simultaneously propelling the United States into a dominant international military, political, cultural, and economic position.
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
Key Concept 1.1: Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass migration.
Key Concept 1.2: A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass culture and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under the pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
Key Concept 1.3: Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies renewed debates over the nation’s values and its role in the world while simultaneously propelling the United States into a dominant international military, political, cultural, and economic position.
Unit 2: 1945-1980
After World War II, the United States grappled with prosperity and unfamiliar international responsibilities while struggling to live up to its ideals.
Key Concept 2.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and attempting to defend a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences.
Key Concept 2.2: Liberalism, based on anticommunism abroad and a firm belief in the efficacy of governmental and especially federal power to achieve social goals at home, reached its apex in the mid-1960s and generated a variety of political and cultural responses.
Key Concept 2.3: Postwar economic, demographic, and technological changes had a far-reaching impact on American society, politics, and the environment.
After World War II, the United States grappled with prosperity and unfamiliar international responsibilities while struggling to live up to its ideals.
Key Concept 2.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and attempting to defend a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences.
Key Concept 2.2: Liberalism, based on anticommunism abroad and a firm belief in the efficacy of governmental and especially federal power to achieve social goals at home, reached its apex in the mid-1960s and generated a variety of political and cultural responses.
Key Concept 2.3: Postwar economic, demographic, and technological changes had a far-reaching impact on American society, politics, and the environment.
Unit 3: Period 9 1980-Present
As the United States transitioned to a new century filled with challenges and possibilities, it experienced renewed ideological and cultural debates, sought to redefine its foreign policy, and adapted to economic globalization and revolutionary changes in science and technology.
Key Concept 3.1: A new conservatism grew to prominence in U.S. culture and politics, defending traditional social values and rejecting liberal views about the role of government.
Key Concept 3.2: The end of the Cold War and new challenges to U.S. leadership in the world forced the nation to redefine its foreign policy and global role.
Key Concept 3.3: Moving into the 21st century, the nation continued to experience challenges stemming from social, economic, and demographic changes.
As the United States transitioned to a new century filled with challenges and possibilities, it experienced renewed ideological and cultural debates, sought to redefine its foreign policy, and adapted to economic globalization and revolutionary changes in science and technology.
Key Concept 3.1: A new conservatism grew to prominence in U.S. culture and politics, defending traditional social values and rejecting liberal views about the role of government.
Key Concept 3.2: The end of the Cold War and new challenges to U.S. leadership in the world forced the nation to redefine its foreign policy and global role.
Key Concept 3.3: Moving into the 21st century, the nation continued to experience challenges stemming from social, economic, and demographic changes.
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Your username is your first initial and last name (example: JLoja)
Your password is h1story
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Username: nhsstudent
Password: history
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Username: nhsstudent
Password: history
Friday, Sept 6 First Assignment
"History is about people...history is human...its a marvelous anecdote to the hubris of the present..."
-David McCullough, Historian
Directions:
1. Watch the two video clips below.
2. Read the article linked below: "History is NOT a Useless Major..."
3. Read the mission statement from the UMASS-Boston history department.
4. Answer the question below.
1. Watch the two video clips below.
2. Read the article linked below: "History is NOT a Useless Major..."
3. Read the mission statement from the UMASS-Boston history department.
4. Answer the question below.
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UMASS Boston History Department Mission Statement:
Studying history helps students obtain researching, writing, and critical thinking skills, as well as information about and perspectives concerning the human condition in different times and places. What is universal about the human experience? What is specific to a time and a place? How many different ways have societies been structured, changed over time, and interacted with one another? What have these societal structures and interactions meant for the daily lives of people? How has the modern world developed over time? Extensive study of history gives students knowledge and insight into all these issues. We believe that the study of history is indispensable to each of the three aims in education: training for work, preparation for public life, and enrichment of private life.
Studying history helps students obtain researching, writing, and critical thinking skills, as well as information about and perspectives concerning the human condition in different times and places. What is universal about the human experience? What is specific to a time and a place? How many different ways have societies been structured, changed over time, and interacted with one another? What have these societal structures and interactions meant for the daily lives of people? How has the modern world developed over time? Extensive study of history gives students knowledge and insight into all these issues. We believe that the study of history is indispensable to each of the three aims in education: training for work, preparation for public life, and enrichment of private life.