Marietta City Schools Pacing Guide

Subject: American History Grade Level: 9th / Honors
Time Frame: Semester Long / Year Long

Month / Week
	
CCS Benchmarks
	
Skills/Activities
	
Resources
	
Assessment

August
		
PRE - TESTING

September

Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2,3, 4, 5

Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) Standards 5, 6, 7, 8
	
Ch.13
-	SHEG Populism and the Election of 1896
-	Assimilation: Identifying Primary Sources
-	Google Slides (shared)
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity

9/11 - Students turn in and discuss interviews

Ch.14
-	Mother Jones Primary Source -     Cost/Benefits Chart
-	Robber Barron Selfie Assignment -	Google Slides (shared)
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity
	
Ch. 13
-	America the Story Of Us: Heartland video & questions
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans

Ch. 14
-	Alexander Graham Bell sound clips
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
Ch.13 - DAPL or Changing the Team name (Redskins) Opinion Essay and Exam
-	Formative Quizzes
Ch.14
- Unit exam next month)
-	Formative Quizzes

October
	
Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Industrialization and Progressivism
	
Ch. 15
-	Google Slides (shared)
-	Gilded Age Political Cartoon analysis
-	- America: The Story Of Us Cities with guided questions
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity
	
- The Men Who Built America: Oil Strike video & questions
- America The Story Of Us : Cities video & questions
- Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
Ch.14-16 Exam -Essay weighing the Costs/Benefits of Industrialization and Urbanization

	
(1877-1920) Standards 7, 8, 9

November

Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) Standard 8
	
Veteran’s Day (the week of)
-	Honor the Fallen Webquest -	Taking Chance
-	Google Slides (shared) Ch. 16
-	Wright Brothers activity -	Google Slides
-	SHEG Booker T Washington V. WEB DuBois
-	Google Slides (shared) -	Voter Literacy Test
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity

Ch. 17
-	Google Slides (shared)
	
Veteran’s Day
-	 Honor the Fallen website, Taking Chance DVD & questions
-	Wright Brothers video clip youtube
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
Ch.14-16 Exam -Essay weighing the Costs/Benefits of Industrialization and Urbanization

Ch.16 Section 3 -Twitter Activity or Letters

Plessy v. Ferguson Simulation

-	Formative Quizzes

December
	
Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Industrialization and Progressivism Standards 7 and 9

Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal
(1919-1941)
	
Ch. 17 cont.
-	Presidential Cell Phone activity -	Chart of movements for notes -	Iron Jawed Angels
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity
	
-      Iron Jawed Angels & guided questions
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
Ch.17 Test

Midterm Exam: Ch. 13 - 17

	
Standard 14

January

Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2,3, 4, 5

Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to
Post-World War I (1898-1930) Standard 10
	
Ch. 18
-	Imperialism Map
-	SHEG Maine Explosion
-	SHEG Spanish-American War
-	SHEG Philippine-American War -	Panama Canal Song
-	Panama Canal Documentary (BBC) -	Google Slides (shared)
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity

-	Youtube videos - Panama Canal song & documentary
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
- Imperialism Song Assignment
- Yellow Journalism Assignment
- Formative Quizzes - Test

February
	
Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to
Post-World War I (1898-1930) Standards 10, 11
	
Ch. 19
-	WWI Map
-	Trench Warfare Simulation
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity -	Google Slides (Shared)
	
-     World Wars Episode 1 -     Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
-	Formative Quizzes
-	WWI Test

March
	
Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to
Post-World War I (1898-1930) Standard 11

Prosperity,
	
Ch. 20
-	Harding and Coolidge Caricatures and presidents video
-	Palmer Raids
-	Sacco and Vanzetti
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity Ch.21 -
-	Webquest
-	Do the Charleston
-	America the Story of Us: Boom -	Scopes Trial
-	Harlem Renaissance Art Walk
	
-	Prohibition (Ken Burns) -Documentary with questions (just the beginning)
-	Harlem Renaissance Art Walk materials (music, poems, paintings)
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
-	Formative Quizzes
-	Art Walk Assignment
-	1920s Test -chp 20 & 21

	
Depression and the New Deal
(1919-1941) Standards 12, 13,14
	
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity

April
	
Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal
(1919-1941) Standard 15
	
Ch. 22
-	The Great Depression Begins -	Cinderella Man with Guided
Questions
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity
	
-	Hoover caricature and video
-	Cinderella Man DVD
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
-	Formative Quizzes
-	Great Depression Test

May
	
Historical Thinking and Skills Content Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal
(1919-1941) Standard 15
	
Ch.23 New Deal
-	Chart of New Deal Programs
-	New Deal Affects Web or Chart (Women, AA, NA, Mexican Americans, Laborers)
-	SHEG New Deal
-	America the Story of Us: Bust with guided questions
-	Tiered Timeline ongoing activity
	
-	FDR Inauguration Address 1933
-	Teacher Created Notes -	FDR Caricature and The
President's video
-	Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit lyrics
-	SHEG Dust Bowl
-	God Bless America lyrics and song
-	Song of the South -
-	America the Story of Us: Bust with questions
-	SHEG: New Deal
-	Teacher created notes
-	Textbook: The Americans
	
-	Formative Quizzes
-	New Deal Cereal Box Activity
-	Analyzing letters for Mrs. Roosevelt
-	New Deal Test