Pacing Calendar
Subject: Modern American History
Grade: Tenth Grade
Understandings:
 All four content statements under Historical Thinking and Skills are to be embedded
throughout the year in the different units as they fit.
 Historical readings will be done on a regular basis using primary and secondary sources.
Suggestions/Ideas:
 ODE Social Studies Model Curriculum : http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Academic-ContentStandards/Social-Studies
 Social Studies Wordpress site: http://wordpress.limacityschools.org/socialstudies/
Unit
Subject
Duration
Priority
Standards
5- Explain a grievance
listed in the
Declaration of
Independence in terms
of its relationship to
Enlightenment ideas of
natural rights and the
social contract.
6- Show how the
Northwest Ordinance,
in providing govt. for
the NW Territory, est. a
precedent for
governing the U.S.
1
Historic
Documents
1st Quarter
4 Weeks
7- Develop an
argument that a
particular provision of
the Constitution of the
U.S. would help
address a problem
facing the U.S. in
1780s. Connect to
Enlightenment.
8- Compare the
arguments of the
Federalists and AntiFederalists on a
common topic related
to the ratification of
the Constitution and
hypothesize why the
winning argument was
more persuasive.
9- Cite evidence for
historical precedents to
the rights incorporated
in the Bill of Rights
Supporting Resources
Standards
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Declaration of
Independence
http://edsitement.
neh.gov/lessonplan/declarationindependenceexpressionamerican-mind
6. Northwest
Ordinance
http://www.in.gov
/history/2692.htm
7. Enlightenment
and Constitution
http://www.tpsnv
a.org/teach/l_p/03
5/index.html
8. Federalist/AntiFederalist Debate
http://edsitement.ne
h.gov/curriculumunit/federalist-andanti-federalistdebates-diversityand-extendedrepublic
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
2- Analyze and
evaluate the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
10- Analyze how the
rise of corp., heavy
industry,
mechanized farming
and tech.
innovations
transformed the
American economy
from agrarian to
urban industrial…
2
Industrialization
and
Progressivism
1st/2nd Quarter
5 wks & 1 wk
buffer
12- Analyze and
evaluate how
immigration,
internal migration
and urbanization
transformed
American life.
13- Analyze the postReconstruction
political and social
developments that
led to
institutionalized
racism in the U.S.—
Describe racist
practices in postReconstruction
America.
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
5- Explain a
grievance listed in
the Declaration of
Independence in
terms of its
relationship to
Enlightenment ideas
of natural rights and
the social contract.
8- Compare the
arguments of the
Federalists and AntiFederalists on a
common topic
related to the
ratification of the
Constitution and
hypothesize why the
winning argument
was more persuasive.
11- Explain the major
social and economic
effects of
industrialization and
the influence of the
growth of organized
labor following
Reconstruction.
14- Analyze and
evaluate the success
of progressive
reforms during the
late 19th and early
20th centuries in
addressing problems
associated with
industrial capitalism,
urbanization and
political corruption.
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Industrial
Revolution I
http://www.monr
oefordham.org/do
cs/lessonplan3_th
e%20industrial%20
revolution.pdf
5. Jim Crow Laws
http://www.learni
ngtogive.org/lesso
ns/unit232/lesson
2.html
6. It’s a free
country…isn’t it?
http://www.learni
ngtogive.org/lesso
ns/unit161/lesson
1.html
7. Multiple lessons
on Progressivism
http://www.usd11
6.org/ProfDev/AH
TC/lessons/progre
ssivism.html
8. The Gilded Age
http://www.fitchb
urgstate.edu/uplo
ads/files/Teaching
AmericanHistory/p
agingtonindustry.p
df
9. Immigration
http://www.pbs.or
g/independentlens
/newamericans/fo
reducators_index.
html
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
2- Analyze the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
3
Foreign Affairs
from
Imperialism to
Post-WWI
(1898-1930)
2nd Quarter
3 wks and 1 wk
buffer
15- Analyze the
circumstances which
enabled the U.S. to
emerge as a world
power in the early
1900s.
16- Explain why and
how the U.S. moved
to a policy of
isolationism
following WWI.
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
5- Explain a
grievance listed in
the Declaration of
Independence in
terms of its
relationship to
Enlightenment ideas
of natural rights and
the social contract.
8- Compare the
arguments of the
Federalists and AntiFederalists on a
common topic
related to the
ratification of the
Constitution and
hypothesize why the
winning argument
was more persuasive.
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Imperialism
http://edsitement.
neh.gov/lessonplan/lesson-4imperialism-andopen-door
6. WWI
http://www.pbs.or
g/greatwar/resour
ces/lesson.html
7. WWI Part 2
http://www.truma
nlibrary.org/whistl
estop/study_collec
tions/ww1/index.p
hp?action=lessons
8. War & Peace
http://www.icivics.
org/teachers/lesso
n-plans/foreignpolicy-war-peaceand-everythingbetween
9. Foreign Policy
http://www.yale.e
du/ynhti/curriculu
m/units/1978/3/7
8.03.05.x.html
2- Analyze the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
4
Prosperity,
Depression and
the New Deal
2nd Quarter
3 wks & 3 day
buffer
18- Describe how an
improved standard
of living for many,
combined with tech.
innovations in
communication,
transportation and
industry, resulted in
social and cultural
changes and
tensions.
20- Describe how the
federal govts.
Monetary policies,
stock market
speculation and
increasing consumer
debt led to the Great
Depression. Explain
how the efforts to
combat the Great
Depression led to an
expanded role for
the federal govt.
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
17- Describe how
racial intolerance,
anti-immigrant
attitudes and the
Red Scare
contributed to
social unrest after
WWI.
19- Describe social
changes that came
from the Harlem
Renaissance,
African-American
migration,
women’s suffrage
and Prohibition.
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Great
Depression I
http://www.loc.go
v/teachers/classro
ommaterials/them
es/greatdepression/lesson
plans.html
6. Great
Depression II
http://www.stlouis
fed.org/greatdepression/curricu
lum.html
7. New Deal I
http://www.loc.go
v/teachers/classro
ommaterials/lesso
ns/dime/
8. The 1930s
http://www.pbs.or
g/wgbh/americane
xperience/features
/teachersresources/1930steachers-resource/
9. Harlem
Renaissance
http://www.readw
ritethink.org/classr
oomresources/lessonplans/harlemrenaissanceretrospectiveconnecting252.html
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
2- Analyze the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
5
From Isolation
to World War
(1930-1945)
3rd Quarter
3 wks & 2 day
buffer
22- Identify and
explain changes
American society
experienced with
the mobilization of
its economic and
military resources
during WWII.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
21- Analyze the
reasons for American
isolationist
sentiment in the
interwar period.
23- Summarize how
atomic weapons
have changed the
nature of war,
altered the balance
of power and started
the nuclear age.
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. WWII Part 1
http://www.nation
alww2museum.org
/learn/education/f
orteachers/lessonplans/
6. WWII Part 2
http://www.archiv
es.gov/education/l
essons/depression
-wwii.html
7. WWII Part 3
http://www.besthi
storysites.net/inde
x.php/ww2
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
2- Analyze the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
6
The Cold War
(1945-1991)
3rd/4th Quarter
6 wks & 1 wk
buffer
26- Analyze how the
Cold War and
conflicts in Korea
and Vietnam
influenced domestic
and international
politics between the
end of WWII and
1992.
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
24- Analyze the
policy of
containment the
U.S. followed
during the Cold
War in response to
the spread of
communism.
25- Explain how
the Second Red
Scare and
McCarthyism
reflected Cold War
fears in American
Society.
27- Explain how
the collapse of
communist
governments in
Eastern Europe
and the USSR
brought an end to
the Cold War era.
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Causes of Cold
War
http://www.pbs.or
g/behindcloseddo
ors/education/sna
pshotlessons/coldwar.ht
ml
6.
http://edsitement.
neh.gov/curriculu
m-unit/originscold-war-19451949
7. Korean Conflict
http://www.archiv
es.gov/education/l
essons/koreanconflict/
8. Vietnam
http://www.pbs.or
g/wgbh/pages/fro
ntline/shows/milit
ary/etc/lessons.ht
ml
9. Collapse of
Soviet Union
http://alex.state.al
.us/lesson_view.p
hp?id=9395
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
2- Analyze the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
7
Social
Transformation
in the U.S.
(1945-1994)
4th Quarter
4 wks & 2 day
buffer
28- Summarize the
struggle for racial
and gender equality
and the extension of
civil rights that
occurred in the U.S.
in the postwar
period.
31- Explain why the
govts. Role in the
economy,
environmental
protection, social
welfare and national
security became the
topic of political
debate between
1945 and 1994.
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
29- Describe how
American life in the
postwar period was
impacted by the
postwar economic
boom and by
advances in science.
30- Analyze the social
and political effects
of the continuing
population flow from
cities to suburbs, the
internal migrations
from the Rust Belt to
the Sun Belt, and the
increase in
immigration
resulting from
passage of the 1965
Immigration Act.
**See Historic
Document standards
5-9
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Civil Rights I
http://www.loc.go
v/teachers/classro
ommaterials/them
es/civilrights/lessonplans.
html
6. A Forum on
Racism
http://www.learni
ngtogive.org/lesso
ns/unit247/lesson
5.html
7. Civil Rights II
http://www.nytim
es.com/learning/t
eachers/lessons/ci
vilrights.html
8. Post War
Economic Boom
http://www.under
standingrace.org/h
istory/society/post
_war_economic_b
oom.html
9. Boom Time
http://www.pbs.or
g/wgbh/peoplesce
ntury/teachers/tgb
oom.html
1- Analyze a
historical decision
and predict the
possible
consequences of
alternative courses
of action.
3- Develop a thesis
and use evidence to
support or refute a
position.
United States
and the PostCold War World
(1991-Present)
8
4th Quarter
3 weeks & 2 day
buffer
2- Analyze the
credibility of primary
and secondary
sources.
33- Describe
political, national
security and
economic challenges
the U.S. faced in the
post-Cold War
period and following
the attacks on
September 11, 2001
4- Identify examples
of multiple causation
and long- and shortterm causal
relationships…
(analyze cause,
effect, sequence, and
correlation.
32- Analyze how
the American
economy has been
impacted by
improved global
communications,
international
trade,
transnational
business
organizations,
overseas
competition and
the shift from
manufacturing to
service industries.
Reminders:
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Sept 11th is Patriots Day
Sept 17th is Constitution Day (this may vary depending on the calendar year)
Sept 15th – Oct 15th Hispanic Heritage Month
February is Black History Month
March is Women’s History Month
April 22nd is Earth Day (this may vary depending on the calendar year)
1. Model
Curriculum
2. Wordpress Site
(look in High
School category)
3.Real Like An
Historian
http://sheg.stanfo
rd.edu/home_pag
e
4. Glencoe Text
5. Post Cold War
http://www.besthi
storysites.net/inde
x.php/americanhistory/1900/postcold-war
6. The Cold War
and Beyond
http://www.discov
eryeducation.com/
teachers/freelesson-plans/thecold-war-andbeyond.cfm
7. 9-11 Lessons
https://www.911
memorial.org/less
on-plans-9-12
8. Global
Communications
http://www.global
envision.org/teach
ers