8400   U. S. HISTORY 31-32

 

Year,  2 credits

 

Prerequisite: None

 

 

 

United States History is a two semester course which builds on concepts developed in previous studies of American history.  After reviewing American history through the Civil War, students will be able to identify the interaction of key events, persons, and groups with political, economic, social, and cultural influences on state and national development in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries.  Students will develop inquiry skills using primary source material, examine cause and effect, identify different perspectives and relate historical situations to current issues.  Students will study themes and that affect them today-civil rights, democratic participation, etc.  There will be a fee charged for this class.

 

 

 

Students will be able to place time periods of study into chronological order, in addition students will examine important themes and concepts in Indiana and U.S. History while developing skills and processes of historical thinking and inquiry students will gather and organize information from primary and secondary sources from a variety of sources.  Students will exercise their skills as future citizens in a democratic society by engaging in problem solving and civic decision making in the classroom, school and community setting.