2nd Quarter Begins!

It’s begun!  The 2nd Quarter is the time to do your best in your classes.  It’s the time when you’ve (hopefully) become comfortable with other students in the class and with the teacher.  It’s the time when you’ve gotten over the shock of the new class and are ready to get down to work.  It’s [...]

US History 2 Unit Plans

Over the years, I have been uploading my lessons and activities as PDF files to my website.  One of those sets of lessons is based on a 18 week chronological breakdown of topics in US History 2.  Basically, I spend 1 week per decade (with exceptions for the 1960′s and the 1940′s).  On the unit [...]

Cuban Missile Crisis Project

Author: Nate Everett Title of Lesson: The Cuban Missile Crisis Curriculum Area: United States History Grade Level: 10th Grade Instructional Grouping: Heterogeneous Approximate Time Required Completing Lesson: 3, 83 minute class periods (blocks) Overview of Lesson: Students of history must live what they study.  Analysis of history is not passive, nor is it confined to [...]

Malcolm X on DonorsChoose.org

Because of a recommendation from a colleague AND because of the lack of resources and materials in my school and district ($1.4 million shortfall already in this fiscal year), I have decided to apply for stuff on DonorsChoose.org.  It’s a website that hooks up teachers with people and organizations that want to donate money to [...]

Unit 4: 1970′s Transition

Three Mile Island almost melted down.  Our president lied to the American people and resigned rather than face a potential trial.  The Supreme Court protected the reproductive rights (or legalized abortion, depending on your perspective) of women and polarized the nation ever since.  The Civil Rights movement faced new challenges as Latinos and Native Americans [...]

Unit 3: 1980′s Conservatism

Punky Brewster, Cheers, nuclear weapons, Reagan, Iran-Contra and more made up the 1980′s.  President Reagan brought the nation an increase in military power, conservative programs and national debt – but at the same time helped the nation through a deep recession.  Here’s the 1980′s unit plan that will walk you through the decade with assignments [...]

Unit 2: 1990′s Post Cold War

The 1990′s were a decade of enormous transition.  The Soviet Union faced a revolution and split apart.  In our area, Hurricane Bob destroyed thousands of homes on the same day.  President George H.W. Bush led an international coalition to throw Saddam Hussein and Iraq out of oil-rich Kuwait.  Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 and [...]

1980′s Museum Exhibit Assign.

The 1980’s was a very interesting decade. Ronald Reagan was president. The US and the USSR were enemies with thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at one another. Rubik’s cubes were everywhere. America went through a severe recession and the largest stock market crash since the Depression. A space shuttle exploded. Michael Jackson and Madonna were [...]

Podcast Project: 1980′s Interview

Welcome to the first podcast project for your class.  In case you didn’t know, podcasts are either audio or video files (mostly mp3’s) that are created to serve a variety of functions.  Some are about news, sports, entertainment, and culture, but ours are about history.  Usually podcasts are updated regularly through a RSS or iTunes [...]

Miniature Earth Project

In US History II today, I had the students view the flash video for the Miniature Earth Project in order to get a context for understanding issues of globalization that we discussed earlier in our notes.  Students were generally surprised to learn that the statistics of the world – broken down to a village of [...]

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