United States History, Middle School
                                                                             2016-2017 Course Outline

 Required Text: History Alive!  The United States Through Industrialism.  Hart, Diane. TCI.
           
Sequence of Units:
Unit 1: Our Colonial Heritage
     The first Americans, Settlement, the Colonies
Unit 2: Revolution in the Colonies
     The American Revolution
Unit 3: Forming a New Nation
     Creating the Constitution
Unit 4: Launching the New Republic
     The Federalists, Republicans, and the growth of American Democracy
Unit 5: An Expanding Nation
     Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
Unit 6: Americans in the Mid-1800s
     Reform, the worlds of North and South, African Americans
Unit 7: The Union Challenged
    The Civil War and Reconstruction
Unit 8: Migration and Industry
     Tensions in the West, Industrialization, and Immigration
Unit 9: A Modern Nation Emerges
     The Progressive Era, World War I, Linking Past to Present

In Class:
--Elaboration upon assigned reading through activities and lecture.
--Socratic discussion focused on a particular question related to the unit of study.  
--Group work with primary source documents  
--Map study
--Review and discussion of weekly homework.
 
Homework:
--Read assigned texts.
--Maintain an interactive history notebook.
--Complete intermittent research assignments. 


                                                                       This syllabus is subject to revision.