American Studies
Units of Instruction
Tradition and Rebellion:
Accepting Personal and Communal Responsibility
Unit 2
Before Citizenship:
The Quest for Recognition of Humanity
Unit 3
The Reckoning:
Falling Short of the Ideal
Unit 4
Renewed Purpose:
Quest for a Place to Belong
CONTACT US
Jacquelyn Whiting:
MsW.JBHS "at" gmail.com
jwhiting "at" region9ps.org
Sarah Hart
shart "at" region9ps.org
Reading Strategies: Primary Sources, Secondary Texts
Organizers for Reading Primary Sources: written source, map, cartoon
Writing Resources: Writing Group Protocol, Check your Grammar
On-Line Resources:
Digital
History: Comprehensive on-line US history text
History and
Archaeology from Smithsonian Magazine
Themes from
Gilder Lehrman
HistoryMatters
online survey course in US History
100 Milestone
Documents
American Studies at University of Virginia
Yale Avalon Project
National Archives
Resources from PBS
Recommended Texts:
Howard Zinn,
A People's
History of the United States
Rubrics:
analytical writing
exploratory
achievement
Complexity
Community
Communication
Calendars:
Aug-Sept,
October,
November,
December,
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June
Students in Action
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