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7th Grade - the Medieval World

Unit 1:

Land in my Community

“Everything in US history is about the land -- who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how it became a commodity (‘real estate’) broken into pieces to be bought and sold on the market (p. 1).”

Unit 7:

Another World is Possible

FQ: Who controlled the land when the US was founded?

Topics:

  • Definition of Settler Colonialism
  • Native and American geographies
  • Slave Labor (Africa)
  • Revolutionary Era Leaders
  • Founding Documents

Unit 2:

The Founding of the US

FQ: How did slavery and the occupation of Native land fuel the US economic system?

Topics:

  • Expansion of Slave Labor/Abolition
  • Industrial Growth/Railroad/ Native Resistance
  • Cross-Cultural Solidarity

Unit 4: Slavery and Industrial Capitalism

Course Question: How does the settlement of the land that became the United States inform injustices in our world today?

FQ: How did different regions of US use the land?

Topics:

  • Cities, roads, canals, railroads
  • Enslaved Labor
  • Settler Expansion
  • Native Displacement

Unit 3: Regional Differences

FQ: How has land in my community been used over time?

Topics:

  • Local Tribal Communities
  • Colonization
  • American Settlement
  • My community today

8th Grade - Am Rev to Recon (19th c. US)

10th Grade - 20th c. world

Teaching Thesis:

Unit 5: Civil War and War in the West

FQ: How did the conquest of Native land increase the conflict over slavery in the US?

Topics:

  • CA as a State
  • Settler Violence
  • Free/Slave States
  • Indian Territory
  • Military Conflict

Unit 6: Reconstruction and Industrialization

FQ: What prevented a multi-racial democracy from succeeding in the 19th c?

Topics:

  • Recon Gov
  • Chinese Exclusion
  • White Nationalism
  • Land Grab

FQ: What is required for the US to repair past harm and prepare for a more just future?

Topics:

  • #LandBack
  • Reparations
  • #StopAAPIHate
  • Immigration Reform

Informed by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the US (2014).

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Draft your own course map and consider the specific topics to reinforce key concepts.

9th Grade - Ethnic Studies (possible)

7th Grade - Regional to Global Interconnection

8th Grade

Course Question:

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Course Teaching Thesis: 2-3 sentence possible response to the course question