🇺🇸 UNITED STATES HISTORY SYLLABUS

AMERICAN HISTORY

100

Question: What time period will students study in this course?

Question: What time period will students study in this course?

Answer: From the Colonization Age through Reconstruction after the Civil War.

200

Question: What major event comes after the period of Exploration and Colonization?

Question: What major event comes after the period of Exploration and Colonization?

Answer: The American Revolution.

300

Question: What theme focuses on the creation of the United States as a new country?

Question: What theme focuses on the creation of the United States as a new country?

Answer: Forming a New Nation.

400

🎲 DOUBLE OR NOTHING. 

Question: What theme focuses on the United States growing larger during the 1800s?

Question: What theme focuses on the United States growing larger during the 1800s?

Answer: An Expanding Nation.

500

Question: What theme focuses on the conflict that challenged whether the United States would remain united?

Question: What theme focuses on the conflict that challenged whether the United States would remain united?

Answer: The Union Challenged.

THINK LIKE A HISTORIAN

100

Question: What do we call someone who studies and interprets the past?

Question: What do we call someone who studies and interprets the past?

Answer: A historian.

200

Question: What should historians do with sources before deciding whether they are trustworthy?

Question: What should historians do with sources before deciding whether they are trustworthy?

Answer: Evaluate them.

300

Question: What is it called when a source favors one particular point of view?

Question: What is it called when a source favors one particular point of view?

Answer: Bias.

400

🔥 TRIPLE OR NOTHING

Question: Name three skills we will practice to help us think like historians.

🔥 TRIPLE OR NOTHING

Question: Name three skills we will practice to help us think like historians.

Answer: Any three: asking effective questions, evaluating sources, recognizing bias, drawing conclusions, identifying cause and effect, analyzing perspectives, or making inferences.

500

Question: If a historian wants to understand why an event happened, what relationship should they look for?

Question: If a historian wants to understand why an event happened, what relationship should they look for?

Answer: Cause and effect.

READY FOR CLASS

100

Question: What device must be fully charged and brought to history class every day?

Question: What device must be fully charged and brought to history class every day?

Answer: An iPad.

200

Question: What should you use to keep your history papers organized?

Question: What should you use to keep your history papers organized?

Answer: A folder.

300

Question: What three words describe the classroom culture students are expected to help create?

Question: What three words describe the classroom culture students are expected to help create?

Answer: Responsibility, Respect, and Resourcefulness.

400

Question: What type of pen should students have for history class?

Question: What type of pen should students have for history class?

Answer: A fine-tip Sharpie.

500

🎁 PRIZE BIN

Question: You come to class after being absent. What is your responsibility?

🎁 PRIZE BIN

Question: You come to class after being absent. What is your responsibility?

Answer: Find out what you missed and check Schoology for the lesson and assignments.

GRADES & ABSENCES

100

Question: What percentage of your grade comes from daily assignments?

Question: What percentage of your grade comes from daily assignments?

Answer: 50%.

200

Question: What percentage of your grade comes from tests and projects?

Question: What percentage of your grade comes from tests and projects?

Answer: 50%.

300

Question: What can you do if you are unhappy with your grade on an assignment?

Question: What can you do if you are unhappy with your grade on an assignment?

Answer: Redo the assignment.

400

Question: If you redo an assignment, what happens to your two grades?

Question: If you redo an assignment, what happens to your two grades?

Answer: They are averaged together.

500

Question: How much credit can you receive for late work if you turn it in before the lesson is tested?

Question: How much credit can you receive for late work if you turn it in before the lesson is tested?

Answer: 80%.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

100

Question: According to the syllabus, what can individuals do?

Question: According to the syllabus, what can individuals do?

Answer: Make a difference.

200

Question: What influences our actions?

Question: What influences our actions?

Answer: Our beliefs.

300

Question: Why does this class study people and events from the past?

Question: Why does this class study people and events from the past?

Answer: To understand change over time and better understand the world around us.

400

🔄 SWITCH A SEAT

Question: What does Philippians 2:4–5 tell us to consider besides our own interests?

🔄 SWITCH A SEAT

Question: What does Philippians 2:4–5 tell us to consider besides our own interests?

Answer: The interests of others.

500

Question: What does Ms. Webb hope students will better understand about history and the world?

Question: What does Ms. Webb hope students will better understand about history and the world?

Answer: That God is at work and that each person has a God-given purpose.