US History 1 Curriculum Notebook.docx

U.S. History 1 Curriculum Notebook
2017


Curriculum Notebook Table of Contents
Standards
Standards indicate the broad goals for a student to master in a course. Standards are typically set by a state or district school board.
Strand 1: Three worlds meet................................................................................................................. Page 4 Strand 2: Colonization ........................................................................................................................... Page 5 Strand 3: The American revolution ....................................................................................................... Page 6 Strand 4: The US Constitution ............................................................................................................... Page 7 Strand 5: The development of political institutions and process .......................................................... Page 8 Strand 6: Expansion............................................................................................................................... Page 9 Strand 7: The civil war and reconstruction............................................................................................ Page 10 Reading standards for literacy in history/social studies........................................................................ Page 11 Writing standards for literacy in history/social studies......................................................................... Page 13
Essential Learning Standards
Particular standards/objectives/indicators that a school/district defines as critical for student learning. In fact, they are so critical that students will receive intervention if they are not learned. Essentials are chosen because they 1. have endurance, 2. have leverage, and 3. are important for future learning. ....................................................................................................................................................................... Page 16
Curriculum Resources
The materials teachers use to plan, prepare, and deliver instruction, including materials students use to learn about the subject. Such materials include texts, textbooks, tasks, tools, and media. Sometimes organized into a comprehensive program format, they often provide the standards, units, pacing guides, assessments, supplemental resources, interventions, and student materials for a course. ....................................................................................................................................................................... Page 17
Pacing Guide
The order and timeline of the instruction of standards, objectives, indicators, and Essentials over the span of a course (semester or year). ....................................................................................................................................................................... Page 18
Units
A plan for several weeks of instruction, usually based on a theme, that includes individual lesson plans. Units often also include: Standards, learning targets/goals, skills, formative and summative assessment, student materials, essential questions, big ideas, vocabulary, questions, and instructional methods.
List of Units.................................................................................................................................................... Page 19 Understanding by Design .............................................................................................................................. Page 20
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Assessment Standards
A set of criteria to guide the assessment of student learning in a course that is based on Standards/Essentials of the course; this might include formative assessment practices, summative assessments/practices, common assessment plans, feedback practices, and a schedule for testing.
Ethics ..................................................................................................................................................... Page 21
Intervention Standards
A set of criteria to guide teachers to provide additional instruction to students who did not master the content in Tier 1 instruction. This might include: commercial intervention programs, teacher-developed intervention materials, diagnostic testing, RTI/MTSS processes, and a list of essential knowledge/skills that will prompt intervention if the student does not demonstrate mastery.
RTI ......................................................................................................................................................... Page 23 MTSS...................................................................................................................................................... Page 25
Supplemental Resources
Instructional materials, beyond the main curricular materials, used to strategically fill gaps/weaknesses of the core program materials.
Provo Way Instructional Model ............................................................................................................ Page 27
Evidence-based Pedagogical Practices
A list of teaching strategies that are supported by adequate, empirical research as being highly effective.
John Hattie ............................................................................................................................................ Page 31
Glossary
Terms and acronyms used in this document ........................................................................................ Page 32
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Course Standards
Standards indicate the broad goals for a student to master in a course. Standards are typically set by a state or district school board.
Strand 1: Three worlds meet
Prehistory – Ca. 1650
Europe’s exploration of America had a profound impact on the world. For thousands of years, complex and sophisticated American Indian civilizations had flourished in the Americas, separated from other parts of the world by vast bodies of water. After Columbus’ arrival, the lands of the Western Hemisphere were forever connected to the rest of the world. The international slave trade forced millions of Africans to the Americas, bringing these “three worlds” together in unprecedented ways. Patterns of trade, exploration, conquest, and settlement have ramifications that continue to the present day.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• How do historians and archeologists construct interpretations from artifacts, oral histories, legends, primary sources, and other evidence?
• What were the motives that led to European exploration?
• What were the effects of European exploration, especially on the indigenous
populations encountered?
• How has physical geography affected cultures historically?
• How does it affect cultures today?
• How is your own cultural history woven into the history of America?
Strand 1 standards:
1. Students will analyze evidence, including artifacts and other primary sources to make evidence-based inferences about life among several American Indian nations prior to European exploration of the Americas.
2. Students will compare and evaluate historians’ interpretations of the motivations and conditions that led to European exploration.
3. Students will draw from multiple perspectives and cite evidence to explain the effects of European exploration, specifically on Africa, the Caribbean, and North and South America.
4. Students will identify how the period of exploration has affected the current human geography of the Americas, and in particular the role their own cultural background has played.
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Strand 2: Colonization
Ca. 1565 – 1776
Driven by economic, religious, and political opportunities, colonial powers from Europe established footholds, then empires in North America. Many colonists fled poverty or persecution to start new lives in an unfamiliar land. Africans were enslaved and brought to the Americas against their will. Interactions between colonists and the indigenous peoples living in North America added complexity to the colonies. Geographic and cultural factors influenced where colonists settled and how they lived. Sectional and regional differences emerged that would affect American history. Patterns established within the English colonies on the Eastern seaboard would shape many of the dominant political, economic, linguistic, and religious traditions of the United States.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• What is a colony?
• What role did the concepts of self-government and religious freedom play in the
colonial era?
• How did economic philosophies such as mercantilism promote colonization?
• How were English colonization patterns on the Atlantic coast different from those of the
French colonies in the interior and Spanish colonization in what is now the
southwestern United States?
• How are colonization patterns of the French, Spanish, and English colonies evident in
human geography patterns today?
Strand 2 standards:
1. Students will identify the economic, social, and geographic factors that influenced the colonization efforts of the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish.
2. Students will compare and contrast the economic, political, and social patterns evident in the development of the 13 English colonies.
3. Students will use primary sources as evidence to contrast the daily life and contexts of individuals of various classes and conditions in and near the English colonies, such as gentry, planters, women, indentured servants, African slaves, landowners, and American Indians.
4. Students will explain historic and modern regional differences that had their origins in the colonial period, such as the institution of slavery; patterns of life in urban and rural areas; differences between the French continental interior, Spanish southwest, and English northeast; and the location of manufacturing centers.
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Strand 3: The American revolution
Ca. 1754 – 1787
Enlightened ideas from both sides of the Atlantic, coupled with world events and British policies, led many to question the common sense of the relationship between the American colonies and Britain. Over time, many colonists who had viewed themselves as loyal subjects of the king began to support an independence movement that would result in war, the formation of the United States of America, and the ratification of a unique Constitution. The contributions of Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, Madison, and other Founding Fathers, as well as those of men and women of all social classes and conditions, were vital in achieving independence and creating a new nation.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• What defines a political movement as a revolution?
• Are there specific conditions that are necessary in order for political revolutions to
occur?
• What were the important political philosophies used to justify the American Revolution
and advance the cause of liberty?
• How does the Declaration of Independence make a case for a new nation?
• What role did propaganda play in promoting the patriot cause?
• How do some events, like the winter at Valley Forge and Washington crossing the Delaware, become major parts of the narrative of history when other events, like
Morristown and Washington crossing the East River, do not?
• What led some colonists to become patriots, others to become loyalists, and some to
remain neutral?
• What is American exceptionalism, and in what ways has it shaped how Americans see
themselves?
Strand 3 standards:
1. Students will use primary sources to identify the significant events, ideas, people, and methods used to justify or resist the Revolutionary movement.
2. Students will compare and evaluate historians’ interpretations of the significant historical events and factors affecting the course of the war and contributing to American victory.
3. Students will use primary sources to compare the contributions of key people and groups to the Revolution, such as Paul Revere, Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, and Thomas Jefferson.
4. Students will explain how the ideas and events of the American Revolution continue to shape American identity.
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Strand 4: The US Constitution
Ca. 1781 – 1789
American independence brought with it the need for self-government. Dissatisfaction with inadequate early political structures led to the creation of the Constitution. The Constitutional Convention brought together the greatest political minds of the fledgling nation. Through debate and compromise, the Founding Fathers brought together in a unique way the principles and philosophies that had been theorized and tested for centuries. The Bill of Rights was then added, enumerating the rights of American citizens. In the end, the Constitution and Bill of Rights created the structure of a government that has functioned, survived crises, and evolved for over two centuries, affecting the life of every citizen today.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• What were the problems that led to the calling of a Constitutional Convention?
• What is the evidence that Enlightenment philosophies, the Articles of Confederation,
Shays’ rebellion, the Constitutional Convention, the Great Compromise, and the
ratification debate all influenced the creation of the Constitution?
• What vision of civic virtue is evident in the Constitution?
• How does a compound constitutional republic balance state and federal powers?
• Why is James Madison sometimes referred to as “the Father of the Constitution”?
• What is the role of compromise in political processes?
• How has the U.S. Constitution influenced political structures around the world?
• In what ways can the U.S. Constitution be considered an exceptional document?
Strand 4 standards:
1. Students will explain how the ideas, events, and compromises which led to the development and ratification of the Constitution are reflected in the document itself.
2. Students will describe the structure and function of the government that the Constitution creates.
3. Students will use historic case studies and current events to trace how and explain why the rights, liberties, and responsibilities of citizens have changed over time.
4. Students will use evidence to explain how the Constitution is a transformative document that contributed to American exceptionalism.
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Strand 5: The development of political institutions and
process
Ca. 1783 – 1861
The United States’ constitutional republic and the political systems that Americans are familiar with took shape as the Constitution was interpreted and applied. Reformers have worked to ensure that increasing numbers and classes of people enjoy the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Opposing political parties have worked to mold the leadership, laws, and policies of the new nation in order to fit their vision of America. The first half of the nineteenth century was rich with examples of these organizing efforts that have set precedents still followed in the 21st century.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• What are the primary functions of political parties?
• Why are there only two dominant political parties at the national level?
• Is the two-party political system good for American democracy?
• Are there conditions that are necessary in order for a reform movement to gain
momentum or critical mass?
• What are the most effective ways to promote reform?
• How have Supreme Court decisions shaped the government?
Strand 5 standards:
1. Students will use evidence to document the development and evolution of the American political party system and explain the historic and current roles of political parties.
2. Students will identify the conditions that gave rise to, and evaluate the impact of, social and political reform movements such as Jacksonian Democracy, the women’s rights movement, the Abolitionist movement, and anti-immigration reform.
3. Students will use case studies to document the expansion of democratic principles and rights over time.
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Strand 6: Expansion
Ca. 1783 – 1890
The territorial expansion of the United States created challenges and opportunities for the young nation. Significant advances in industrial technology, discoveries of vast natural resources, a series of gold rushes, visions of the destiny of the nation, continuing conflicts between American Indians and settlers, disagreements between slave states and free states, and a number of push and pull factors influenced territorial expansion. The physical, political, and human geography of the United States today reflects, in part, the 19th century expansion of the nation.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• What motivated settlers to move west?
• How do 19th century events such as the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican- American
War continue to affect the United States today?
• What is the relationship between land and power?
• How did the continent’s physical geography affect the expansion of the United States?
• What were the costs and benefits of the Industrial Revolution?
• How did industrial leaders use markets and capital to grow their businesses?
Strand 6 standards:
1. Students will compare and contrast historians’ interpretations of the ideas, resources, and events that motivated the territorial expansion of the United States.
2. Students will use primary sources representing multiple perspectives to interpret conflicts that arose during American expansion, especially as American Indians were forced from their traditional lands and as tensions grew over free and slave holding territory.
3. Students will identify the economic and geographic impact of the early Industrial Revolution’s new inventions and transportation methods, such as the Erie Canal, the transcontinental railroad, steam engines, the telegraph, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts.
4. Students will make a case for the most significant cultural, political, and economic impacts of territorial and/or industrial expansion.
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Strand 7: The Civil War and reconstruction
Ca. 1820 – 1877
Trends that started with the earliest colonization of America grew into sectional conflicts, and by the election of Lincoln in 1860 the nation was on the brink of civil war. The war had a profound impact on American society and American identity. Events leading to the war and the heavy toll of the war created a severely fractured America. The period of Reconstruction started the process of mending, but created new controversies as concepts of equality, democracy, and citizenship were redefined. The Civil War era and Reconstruction are important aspects of U.S. history, essential to understanding modern America, including race relations and inequality.
Possible Guiding Questions to Consider:
• Why were efforts at compromise unsuccessful immediately prior to the Civil War?
• What caused a growing number of people in the North to be opposed to slavery?
• Was it necessary and worthwhile to wage a war to preserve the Union?
• What does it take for a brother to take up arms against a brother?
• What forces made Reconstruction so difficult?
• Why does the Civil War remain such a defining event for American identity?
• Why does Lincoln reference ideas in the Declaration of Independence when referring to
the Civil War?
• What is the proper way to memorialize controversial events and people?
Strand 7 standards:
1. Students will explain how slavery and other geographic, social, economic, and political differences between the North, South, and West led to the Civil War.
2. Students will use evidence to interpret the factors that were most significant in shaping the course of the war and the Union victory, such as the leadership of Lincoln, Grant, and Lee; the role of industry; demographics; and military strategies.
3. Students will compare historians’ interpretations of the competing goals of Reconstruction and why many of those goals were left unrealized.
4. Students will use current events to evaluate the implications of the Civil War and Reconstruction for contemporary American life.
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Utah Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
The grades 6 – 12 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards below by number.
The CCR and grade-specific standards are necessary complements—the former providing broad standards, the latter providing additional specificity—that together define the skills and understandings that all students must demonstrate.
Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the next text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textural evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Craft and Structure
4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Note on Range and Content of
Student Reading
Reading is critical to building knowledge in history/social studies as well as in science and technical subjects. College and career ready reading in these fields requires an appreciation of the norms and conventions of each discipline, such as the kinds of evidence used in history and science; an understanding of domain-specific words and phrases; an attention to precise details; and the capacity to evaluate intricate arguments, synthesize complex information, and follow detailed descriptions of events and concepts.In history/social studies, for example, students need to be able to analyze, evaluate, and differentiate primary and secondary sources. When reading scientific and technical texts, students need to be able to gain knowledge from challenging texts that often make extensive use of elaborate diagrams and data to convey information and illustrate concepts. Students must be able to read complex informational texts in these fields with independence and confidence because a majority of reading in college and workforce training programs will be sophisticated nonfiction. It is important to note that these reading standards are meantto complement the specific content demands of the disciplines, not replace them.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
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Reading Standards for Literacy in RH History/Social Studies Grades 6-12
Key Ideas and Details
1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
3. Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
Craft and Structure
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social studies.
5. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
6. Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
8. Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.
9. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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Utah Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
The grades 6 – 12 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards below by number.
The CCR and grade-specific standards are necessary complements—the former providing broad standards, the latter providing additional specificity—that together define the skills and understandings that all students must demonstrate.
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Range of Writing
10. Write routinely over extended me frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Note on Range and Content of Student Writing
For students, writing is a key means of asserting and defending claims, showing what they know about a subject, and conveying what they have experienced, imagined, thought, and felt. To be college- and career-ready writers, students must take task, purpose, and audience into careful consideration, choosing words, information, structures, and formats deliberately. They need to be able to use technology strategically when creating, refining, and collaborating on writing. They have to become adept at gathering information, evaluating sources, and citing material accurately, reporting findings from their research and analysis of sources in a clear and cogent manner. They must have the flexibility, concentration, and fluency to produce high-quality first-draft text under a tight deadline and the capacity to revisit and make improvements to a piece of writing over multiple drafts when circumstances encourage or require it. To meet these goals, students must devote significant time and effort to writing, producing numerous pieces over short and long time frames throughout the year.
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Writing Standards for Literacy in
History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects 6-12
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
a. Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the
claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form and in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from or supports the argument presented.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.
a. Introduce a topic and organize complex ideas, concepts, and information
so to make important connections and distinctions; including formatting (e.g., heading), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic.
c. Use varied transitions and sentence structures to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
d. Usepreciselanguage,domain-specificvocabularytomanagethe complexity of the topic and convey a style appropriate to the discipline and context as well as to the expertise of likely readers.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation provided (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).
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3. Not applicable as a separate requirement (Students’ narrative skills continue to grow in these grades. The standards require that students be able to incorporate narrative elements effectively into arguments and informative/exploratory texts. In history/social studies, students must be able to incorporate narrative accounts into their analyses of individuals or events of historical import. In science and technical subjects, students must be able to write precise enough descriptions of the step-by-step procedures they use in their investigations or technical work that others can replicate them and (possibly) reach the same results.
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Range of Writing
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Course Essential Learning Standards
Particular standards/objectives/indicators that a school/district defines as critical for student learning. In fact, they are so critical that students will receive intervention if they are not learned. Essentials are chosen because they 1. have endurance, 2. have leverage, and 3. are important for future learning.
STRAND 1: THREE WORLDS MEET
1.1 (Centennial Only)
1.3 1.4
STRAND 2: COLONIZATION
2.2 2.3 2.4
STRAND 3: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
3.1 (Before and During) 3.4
STRAND 4: THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
4.1 4.2 4.3
STRAND 5: THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
5.1 5.2
STRAND 6: EXPANSION
6.2 6.3
STRAND 7: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
7.1 7.2 7.4
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Curriculum Resources
The materials teachers use to plan, prepare, and deliver instruction, including materials students use to learn about the subject. Such materials include texts, textbooks, tasks, tools, and media. Sometimes organized into a comprehensive program format, they often provide the standards, units, pacing guides, assessments, supplemental resources, interventions, and student materials for a course.
Link above contains American Indian PowerPoint Presentation, Christopher Columbus worksheet, and Updated Native American worksheet.
Link above contains Colonization worksheet and Thirteen Original Colonies PowerPoint Presentation
STRAND 1: THREE WORLDS MEET
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B4ccNxnqh6GyVC1YeTcwaDV6Y1U
STRAND 2: COLONIZATION
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B4ccNxnqh6GyTm41NTJ3c3hZQXc
STRAND 3: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B4ccNxnqh6GydzJsWlQxX015T3c
Link above contains Conflict with Britain PowerPoint Presentation, Examples of Character
Traits PowerPoint Presentation, French and Indian War PowerPoint Presentation, Declaration
of Independence PowerPoint Presentation, and Valley Forge worksheet.
STRAND 4: THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B4ccNxnqh6GyVjd3OFVRSXg4M1U
Link above contains Bill of Rights worksheet, US Constitution in Spanish, Congress Simulation
PowerPoint, and How to Pass a Law PowerPoint.
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Course Pacing Guide
The order and timeline of the instruction of standards, objectives, indicators, and Essentials over the span of a course (semester or year).
TERM 1: Three Worlds Meet, Colonization, Start American Revolution
TERM 2: US Constitution
TERM 3: New Nation, Industrialization, Expansion, Civics Test (in March?)
TERM 4: Civil War, Reconstruction, Plains Wars
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Units
A plan for several weeks of instruction, usually based on a theme, that includes individual lesson plans. Units often also include: Standards, learning targets/goals, skills, formative and summative assessment, student materials, essential questions, big ideas, vocabulary, questions, and instructional methods.
Units List
1. Three Worlds Meet
a. Prehistoric Native American Tribes- Early Colonization/Columbian Exchange
2. Colonization
a. Thirteen Colonies
3. American Revolution
a. French & Indian War- Treaty of Paris
i. Events: Tax Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Lexington & Concord, Declaration of Independence, Trenton/Princeton, Valley Forge, Saratoga, Yorktown
ii. People: Sons of Liberty, Daughters of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, (Benedict Arnold?)
1. Honorable Mentions: Alexander Hamilton, Lafayette, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Paul Jones, Paul Revere, Thomas Paine, Cornwallis
4. US Constitution
a. Articles of Confederation, Constitutional Convention, Articles I-VII, Bill of Rights.
Highlights: Great Compromise, Congress, How to Pass a Law, Presidential Powers, Electoral College, Supreme Court, Historic Cases (Marbury v Madison, Dred Scott, Brown v Board, etc), Freedoms of Expression, Search & Seizure, Right to a Fair Trial
5. New Nation
a. Political parties (Jeffersonian Democracy vs. Federalists)- Lewis & Clark
6. Industrialization
a. Important Inventions & their impact, Urbanization
7. Expansion
a. War of 1812 (Tecumseh), Manifest Destiny, Jacksonian Democracy & Indian Removal,
Mexican-American War, Women’s Rights Movement, Immigration Movement 8. Civil War
a.
i.
ii.
Road to War (sectional differences), Abolition Movement, Failed Compromises (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas), Election of 1860/Secession, Battles/Events, People, End of War
Events: Fort Sumter, Bull Run I, Shiloh, Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Petersburg/Appomattox
People: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman
9. Reconstruction
a. Assassination, President Johnson vs. Radical Republicans, Amendments 13-15, End of
Reconstruction (Jim Crow Laws), Remembering the Civil War 10. Plains Wars
a. Gold Rush, Oregon Trail/Mormon Trail, Reservations, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull and the Lakota Sioux (Wounded Knee Massacre), The Long Walk, Geronimo
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Planning Guide: Jay McTighe, an expert in unit planning and author of Understanding by Design, has written four point to consider when planning units. They are presented below.
UbD Design Standards Stage 1 – To what extent does the design:
1. focus on the “Big ideas” of targeted content? Consider: are . . .
– the targeted understandings enduring, based on transferable, big ideas at the heart of the
discipline and in need of “uncoverage”?
– the targeted understandings framed as specific generalizations?
– the “big ideas” framed by questions that spark meaningful connections, provoke genuine
inquiry and deep thought, and encourage transfer?
– appropriate goals (e.g., content standards, benchmarks, curriculum objectives) identified? – valid and unit-relevant knowledge and skills identified?
Stage 2 – To what extent do the assessments provide:
2. fair, valid, reliable and sufficient measures of the desired results? Consider: are . . .
– students asked to exhibit their understanding through “authentic” performance tasks? – appropriate criterion-based scoring tools used to evaluate student products and
performances?
– a variety of appropriate assessment formats provide additional evidence of learning? Stage 3 – To what extent is the learning plan:
3. effective and engaging? Consider: will students . . .
– know where they’re going (the learning goals), why (reason for learning the content), and
what is required of them (performance requirements and evaluative criteria)?
– be hooked – engaged in digging into the big ideas (e.g., through inquiry, research, problem- solving, experimentation)?
– have adequate opportunities to explore/experience big ideas and receive instruction to equip them for the required performance(s)?
– have sufficient opportunities to rethink, rehearse, revise, and/or refine their work based upon timely feedback?
– have an opportunity to self-evaluate their work, reflect on their learning and set future goals? Consider: the extent to which the learning plan is:
– tailored and flexible to address the interests and learning styles of all students?
– organized and sequenced to maximize engagement and effectiveness?
Overall Design – to what extent is the entire unit:
4. coherent, with the elements of all 3 stages aligned?
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe 2005
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Assessment Standards
A set of criteria to guide the assessment of student learning in a course that is based on Standards/Essentials of the course; this might include formative assessment practices, summative assessments/practices, common assessment plans, feedback practices, and a schedule for testing.
Ethical Assessment Practices (USBE ethics training)
Licensed Utah Educators should:
1. Ensure students are enrolled in appropriate courses and receive appropriate instruction
2. Provide instruction to the intended depth and breadth of the course curriculum
3. Provide accommodations throughout instruction to eligible students as identified by an
ELL, IEP, or 504 team.
4. Use a variety of assessments methods to inform instructional practices
5. Introduce students to various test-taking strategies throughout the year
6. Provide students with opportunities to engage with available training test to ensure that
they can successfully navigate online testing systems, and to ensure that local
technology configurations can successfully support testing.
7. Use formative assessments throughout the year using high-quality, non-secure test
questions aligned to Utah Standards.
Licensed Utah Educators shall ensure that:
1. An appropriate environment reflective of an instructional setting is set for testing to limit distractions from surroundings or unnecessary personnel.
2. All students who are eligible for testing are tested.
3. A student is not discouraged from participating in state assessments, but upon a
parent’s opt-out request (follow LEA procedures), the student is provided with a
meaningful educational activity.
4. Tests are administered in-person and testing procedures meet all test administration
requirements.
5. Active test proctoring occurs: walking around the room to make sure that each student
has or is logged into the correct test; has appropriate testing materials available to
them; and are progressing at an appropriate pace.
6. No person is left alone in a test setting with student tests left on screen or open.
7. The importance of the test, test participation, and the good faith efforts of all students
are not undermined.
8. All information in the Test Administration Manual (TAM) for each test administered is
reviewed and strictly followed (see 53A-1-608; R277-404).
9. Accommodations are provided for eligible students, as identified by an ELL, IEP, or 504
team. These accommodations should be consistent with accommodations provided
during instruction throughout the instructional year.
10. Any electronic devices that can be used to access non-test content or to
record/distribute test content or materials shall be inaccessible by students (e.g., cell phones, recording devices, inter-capable devices). Electronic security of tests and student information must not be compromised.
11. Test materials are secure before, during and after testing. When not in use, all materials shall be protected, where students, parents cannot gain access.
No one may enter a student’s computer-based test to examine content or alter a student’s response in any way either on the computer or a paper answer document for any reason.
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Unethical Assessment Practices (USBE ethics training)
It is unethical for educators to jeopardize the integrity of an assessment or the validity of student responses.
Unethical practices include:
1. Providing students with questions from the test to review before taking the test.
2. Changing instruction or reviewing specific concepts because those concepts appear on
the test.
3. Rewording or clarifying questions, or using inflection or gestures to help students
answer.
4. Allowing students to use unauthorized resources to find answers, including dictionaries,
thesauruses, mathematics tables, online references, etc.
5. Displaying materials on walls or other high visibility surfaces that provide answer to
specific test items (e.g., posters, word walls, formula charts, etc.).
6. Reclassifying students to alter subgroup reports.
7. Allowing parent volunteers to assist with the proctoring of a test their child is taking or
using students to supervise other students taking a test.
8. Allowing the public to view secure items or observe testing sessions.
9. Reviewing a student’s response and instructing the student to, or suggesting that the
student should, rethink his/her answers.
10. Reproducing, or distributing, in whole or in part, secure test content (e.g., taking
pictures, copying, writing, posting in a classroom, posting publically, emailing).
11. Explicitly or implicitly encouraging students to not answer questions, or to engage in
dishonest testing behavior.
12. Administering tests outside of the prescribed testing window for each assessment.
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Intervention Standards
A set of criteria to guide teachers to provide additional instruction to students who did not master the content in Tier 1 instruction. This might include: commercial intervention programs, teacher-developed intervention materials, diagnostic testing, RTI/MTSS processes, and a list of essential knowledge/skills that will prompt intervention if the student does not demonstrate mastery.
PCSD MTSS/RTI Model
Provo City School District's Academic MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support) details the system for providing Tier 1, 2, and 3 instruction; interventions; and assessment to help each student receive appropriate support. It is detailed below.
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PCSD MTSS/RTI Model Provo City School District's Academic MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support) details the system for providing Tier 1, 2, and 3 instruction; interventions; and assessment to help each student receive appropriate support. It is detailed below.
Unpacking the Complexity of MTSS Decision Making
Successful MTSS implementation is a highly complex process that involves the following tasks:
1. Gathering accurate and reliable data
2. Correctly interpreting and validating data
3. Using data to make meaningful instructional changes for students
4. Establishing and managing increasingly intensive tiers of support
5. Evaluating the process at all tiers to ensure the system is working
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Utah’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports USBE website:
http://www.schools.utah.gov/umtss/UMTSS-Model.aspx
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Supplemental Resources
Instructional materials, beyond the main curricular materials, used to strategically fill gaps/weaknesses of the core program materials.
Instructional materials, beyond the main curricular materials, used to strategically fill gaps/weaknesses of the core program materials.
The Provo Way Instructional Model
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1. Student focus
2. Educator credibility
3. Meeting norms
4. Professional Learning Communities (PLC)/Collaboration 5. Civility policy
6. Appearance and interactions
7. Continual Leaning
8. Testing ethics
9. Research orientation
10. Policy adherence
1. Culture
2. Safety–emotional and physical 3. Physical classroom space
4. Relationships
5. Family connections
6. Procedures
7. Classroom management
8. Student artifacts
9. Student focus
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1. Formative evaluation
2. Summative evaluation
3. Feedback:
4. Performance of understanding 5. Self-reported grades
6. Student self-evaluation 7. Testing ethics
8. Differentiation
9. Data analysis
10. Response to interventions (RTI)/Multi-tiered system of success (MTSS)
1. Lesson design
2. Teacher clarity: share LT, share SC, share PoU
3. Evidence-based instructional strategies
4. Based on data
5. Student engagement
6. DOK – Depth of Knowledge
7. Differentiation
8. Student ownership of learning
9. Curriculum notebook
10. RTI/MTSS
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1. State standards
2. Curriculum map/pacing guide 3. Units
4. Objectives
5. Curriculum Notebooks
6. Course essentials
7. Current
8. Planning
Professional Associations Websites
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Evidence-based Pedagogical Practices
A list of teaching strategies that are supported by adequate, empirical research as being highly effective.
Hattie's Visible Learning
John Hattie, creator of Visible Learning, is a leading education researcher who has analyzed meta analyses in order to rank education practices (and factors) from most effective to least effective.
Hattie's list of highest ranking factors can be found at: https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/
or
https://visible-learning.org/nvd3/visualize/hattie-ranking-interactive-2009-2011-2015.html
Hattie's original book on the topic can be found at:
https://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analyses- Achievement/dp/0415476186
Definitions of Hattie's factors can be found at:
https://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analyses- Achievement/dp/0415476186
Learning Targets
Provo City School District employs the use of learning targets, success criteria, formative assessment, and feedback. A basis of study on these topics is the book, Learning Targets, by Connie Moss and Susan Brookhart, can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Targets-Helping-Students-Understanding- ebook/dp/B008FOKP5S.
The district has produced four videos that demonstrate elements of learning target instruction and can be found at:
http://provo.edu/teachingandlearning/learning-targets-videos/
Teacher Resource Guide
Provo City School District's Teacher Resource Guide helps teachers meet the Utah Effective Teaching Standards and includes effective teaching practices. It can be found at: http://provo.edu/teachingandlearning/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/01/11182016-TRG- fixed.pdf
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Glossary
Terms and Acronyms used in this document
Assessment Standards
College and Career Readiness
Curriculum Resources
Essential Learning Standards
Evidence-based Pedagogical Practices
Intervention Standards
Learning Target
A set of criteria to guide the assessment of student learning in a course that is based on Standards/Essentials of the course; this might include formative assessment practices, summative assessments/practices, common assessment plans, feedback practices, and a schedule for testing.
The College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards
and grade-specific standards are necessary complements—the former providing broad standards, the latter providing additional specificity—that together define the skills and understandings that all students must demonstrate.
The materials teachers use to plan, prepare, and deliver instruction, including materials students use to learn about the subject. Such materials include texts, textbooks, tasks, tools, and media. Sometimes organized into a comprehensive program format, they often provide the standards, units, pacing guides, assessments, supplemental resources, interventions, and student materials for a course.
These are also known as power standards. They are particular standards/objectives/indicators that a school/district defines as critical for student learning. In fact, they are so critical that students will receive intervention if they are not learned. Essentials are chosen because they: 1. have endurance, 2. have leverage, and 3. are important for future learning.
A list of teaching strategies that are supported by adequate, empirical research as being highly effective.
A set of criteria to guide teachers to provide additional instruction to students who did not master the content in Tier 1 instruction. This might include: commercial intervention programs, teacher- developed intervention materials, diagnostic testing, RTI/MTSS processes, and a list of essential knowledge/skills that will prompt intervention if the student does not demonstrate mastery.
(LT) A Learning Target is a target that is shared and actively used by both the teacher and the students as a classroom learning team. (Moss & Brookhart, 2012).
MTSS
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support is an approach to academic and
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Pacing Guide
Performance of Understanding.
Provo Way Instructional Model
RTI
Success Criteria
Standards
Supplemental Resources
Units
behavioral intervention. It is part of the intervention standards.
The order and timeline of the instruction of standards, objectives, indicators, and Essentials over the span of a course (semester or year).
(PoU). Student results that provide compelling evidence that the student has acquired the learning target. (Brookhart, 2012).
The five areas of expectations for successful instruction identified by Provo City School District.
Response to Intervention is an approach to academic and behavioral intervention. It is part of the Intervention standards.
Detailed explanation requirements for different levels of quality. They are also referred to as “student-fors” to be used during the formative learning cycle in the day’s lesson (Moss & Brookhart, 2012).
Standards indicate the broad goals for a student to master in a course. Standards are typically set by a state or district school board.
Instructional materials, beyond the main curricular materials, used to strategically fill gaps/weaknesses of the core program materials.
A plan for several weeks of instruction, usually based on a theme, that includes individual lesson plans. Units often also include: Standards, learning targets/goals, skills, formative and summative assessment, student materials, essential questions, big ideas, vocabulary, questions, and instructional methods.
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