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American History
August 8 to August 30, 2003
The Ideas of the Declaration
Class Intro


Nogales High School about 1920
Essential Question:
"How can knowledge of the past be used as a tool for success in the present?"
8.14
  • Open: Ask course essential question on board, students write answer. Turn-in
  • Discuss:
    1. Essential Questions (EQs).
    2. Read the Course Guide
    3. Review the class web page.
    4. Describe the position paper assignment
    5. The class notebook
    6. Grading and tardy policies.
    7. Course outcomes and outline/syllabus
    8. The Habits of Mind
    9. Constitutional and economic principle applications
    10. Tuning protocols and Socratic Seminars
    11. School discipline policy
  • Work on Class Web page and Course Guide review assignment due on 8.18..03
8.15
  • Activity on historical articles and work on Course Guide Review assignment
  • Course Guide Review work in-class
8.18
  • Course Guide Assignment due
  • Course notebook discussion,
  • Finish 8.14 discussion topics
8.19 and
20
8.21
8.22
8.25
8.26, 8.27 and 28
  • Video- "The Declaration of Independence- A Living Blueprint for Democracy"
  • Read in-class "Created Equal"
  • Read Ch. 4 sec. 3 in-class
  • Video Activities
8.29 Review for exam
8.30 Exam - Unit I

1SS-P1. Apply chronological and spatial thinking to understand the meaning, implications, and import of historical and current events.

PO 1. Compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and determining the lessons learned and analyze how change occurs
PO 2. Analyze how change occurs
PO 3. Use a variety of maps and documents to interpret human movement and the diffusion of ideas, technological innovations, and goods

· 1SS-P3. Develop historical interpretations in terms of the complexity of cause and effect and in the context in which ideas and past events unfolded.


PO 1. Show connections between particular events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments
PO 2. Interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event unfolded rather than solely in terms of present day norms and values
PO 3. Hypothesize how events could have taken different directions
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