Inclusive & Engaging U.S. History Year Long w DBQ Activities, Readings & More

This U.S. History year-long course examines the major events and turning points of U.S. history from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement. The course leads students toward a clearer understanding of the patterns, processes, and people that have shaped U.S. history. During this year long U.S. History course students will learn to read like historians and investigate history through engaging essential and inquiry questions. Teach students how to investigate history by empowering them with reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Recurring themes lead students to draw connections between the past and the present, between cultures, and between multiple perspectives.

Includes Black, Women's, Latinx, LGBTQ, and Asian American history! Teach the truth! Teach that history can always be viewed from multiple perspectives.

For the year-long curriculum, all the units are organized in student friendly activities that allow students to interact and learn from their peers. Many actives include videos, and all actives include all necessary readings and graphic organizers. Stop teaching history the boring way! Stop having your students memorize historical facts, and instead allow them to become historians. By evaluating the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues so your students will learn to make historical claims backed by documented and factual evidence. 

All lessons are google documents for you to edit as you see fit!

Covers:
Foundations of the United States Constitution

Civil War

Reconstruction

Industrialization

Immigration and Urbanization

Progressivism

Imperialism

the Great War (WWI)
World War II
the Cold War
Civil Rights

Included is a vast collections of primary source material, brought to you through cooperative and stations activities, creating lessons with diverse voices and perspectives, including the perspectives of people from historically marginalized or systemically silenced groups. Students will dive into historical inquiry around primary and secondary source documents designed for groups of students to work in cooperatively.

Through engaging activities students will contextualizing text, audio, and images, to touch on topics deeply important to the preservation of an inclusive U.S. democracy.

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