UNIT ONE: Toward Independence

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AMERICAN HISTORY
Interactive Student Notebook

The Interactive Student Notebook is used in class to help students organize the information discussed in class.  The Interactive Student Notebook strategy also helps students to interact more with the class materials as they process the lessons.
 
PowerPoint presentations are often used in class to present information and facilitate discussions.  PowerPoint helps to pair the auditory with the visual.
 
On the following pages I have tried to re-create the in-class lessons, activities, and presentations, following the LEFT SIDE - RIGHT SIDE format of the Interactive Student Notebook.

Sequence of the Unit
  1. Introduction to Course
    • Class Policies and Procedures
    • Making Your Year Count
    • How to Finish Well 
    • What is "History"?
    • What is "Doing History"? or How Do We Re-construct the Past?
    • Guiding Questions and Key Concepts and Ideas
    • Social Groups for this Year
  2. Colonial Regions (sectionalism)
    • Colonial Identity
      • New England Colonies
      • Middle Colonies
      • Southern Colonies
      • Backcountry
    • Different Points of View
    • Economic and Political Development 
  3. Toward Independence
    • Causes of the Break with Great Britain
  4. Declaration of Independence
    • ?
  5. Revolutionary War 
    • The War
    • Articles of Confederation

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