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Year: 2006– 2007

School: Upper Columbia Academy

Teacher: Mark Janke School

Course: US History

Grade Level: 11

Credit: 10

Course Length: 2 semesters

Textbooks: Prentice Hall, America: Pathways to the Present

Other materials used:

  • Handouts
  • Media material
  • Class Website
  • Bettmann, Otto L. The Good Old Days-They Were Terrible! (New York: Random House, 1974)

Course Description: By completion of the course students will be able to:

  1. Apply the methods of social science investigation to investigate, compare, and contrast interpretations of historical events in the United States.
  2. Reason logically: argue both for and against a position.
  3. Recognize terms commonly used in grade-level materials, and determine meaning of unknown terms commonly used in grade-level materials.
  4. Identify main ideas, supporting details, and facts and opinions presented in written, oral, and visual formats.
  5. Select appropriate study techniques, and use a variety of listening skills.
  6. Identify principal parts and functions of the united state’s federal and state governments.
  7. Organize ideas in understandable format in planning written and oral presentations.
  8. Work with a team of peers to solve a problem.
  9. Write Chicago styled notation for all reports, presentations, and media.
  10. Use techniques of the writing process in developing written and oral assignments.
  11. Read course material with comprehension and retention of key figures, facts, terms, and dates.
  12. Use knowledge of government, law, and politics to make decisions about and take action on local, national, and international issues to further the public good.
  13. Uses knowledge of production, distribution, and consumption within modern economics to make decisions.
  14. Understand and analyze historical time and chronology.
  15. Examine the influence of culture on United States.
  16. Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping United States.
  17. Compare and contrast ideas in different places, time periods, and cultures, and examine the interrelationships between ideas, change, and conflict.
  18. Understand how ideas and technological developments influence people, culture, and environment.