Divergent Paths of the American People

How did individual regions of the United States become both more similar and more different?
What was family life like in each region?
How did work change between 1800 and 1850?
What was the impact of slavery on American politics, regional economies, family life, and culture?
What did the frontier mean to the nation in the first half of the nineteenth century?
How did Americans help people in need?
why go to school? What did Freedom mean and how to change over time?
How did the country become more connected in the first half century? What were slaves lives like?
How do you sleep families live in ways that were similar to and different from non-slave families?
How did people work to end slavery in what opposition did they face?
Why did Frederick Douglas believe in the United States should abolish slavery
How did Andrew Jackson change the country?
How did Manifest Destiny contribute to American expansion?
How did leading American thinkers justify America’s westward expansion in the nineteenth century (from classroom example)?
What were the consequences of the Mexican American War?
How did family life change during the Yirst half of the nineteenth century?

Becoming a historian

When becoming a Historian you will be working on the many skills to learn and incorporate into how you learn. These skills are listening, questioning, close reading, note taking, annotating, assimilation of meaning, contextualize, corroboration, collaboration, evaluating sources, critical thinking, writing, extrapolating, exploring complexity, on-line reasoning, conveying and ultimately Historical thinking. It sounds much more complicated but you will be able to do this. You have already started this "Strands" work since Kindergarten and will continue in to your adult life.

Standards

This will include learning California standards and content from a vest amount of curriculum areas from centuries of historiography by historians. The checklist that you will be working on all year long for mastery will include these ideas.

Guided vs. essential Questions

The Guided questions will be the larger ideas we will be asking as a class. When a topic from the standards come up there are questions that have been asked to understand the history. The essential question is the question that a chapter asks when you are looking for basic background information. The essential question introduces the topic of a section to chapter. Further the main idea is a heading you can use to know ahead of time what the textbook is mainly trying to get across to you in your studies of history.

Framework

This will include learning California framework standards and content from a vest amount of curriculum areas from centuries of historiography by historians. This historian checklist will be updating all year long will include these ideas too.

Doing the work

Standards base research will be demonstrated with IPNB, Historians Checklist, and your presentation of the work that you do for the course. Please always consult your syllabus and ask questions for clarification. Through all our classes we focus on safety, freedom-choice, empowerment, love, and fun. I hope this will meet your needs to become a great citizen historian, in which we say "philosopher king."