Essential Question: Was the Marshall Plan more helpful to the United States or Western Europe?
Common Core Standards: RH1, RH6, RH8
Introduction:
This lesson is designed to be part of a broader Cold War unit plan. Students should have a basic knowledge of the outlines of the Cold War in terms of major issues and geography. It is based primarily on a series of primary sources maintained by the Library of Congress.
Common Core Standards: RH1, RH6, RH8, WHST1, WHST8, WHST9
Introduction
In teaching the history of the Cold War at both the university and secondary levels, many
teachers shroud the complexities of the Cold War in hyperbole. Students often fail to understand
that conflict between the two superpowers would not necessarily result in a nuclear armageddon
and that the entire period did not consist of the calculated brinksmanship displayed by John F.
The Road to WWII, Bubble Gum Cards, and the “Horrors of War”
Essential Question: How can everyday items help us understand the past?
Common Core Standards: R2, R4, R7, WHST1, WHST8
Introduction:
Essential Question: What was Woodrow Wilson’s vision of the world after the Great War?
Common Core: RH2, RH6
Objectives:
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
Time: 1 Block period (1:45)
Common Core Standards: RH1, RH5, WHST2
Objectives:
The Centennial International Exhibition, 1876
Common Core Standards: RH2
Connections: This lesson should be preceded by a lesson on the origins of the world’s fair experience. It is to be included in the discussion of the flowering of the industrial revolution in the U.S.
Essential Question: How important was Civil War diplomacy to why the Union won?
Common Core Standards: WHST9, RH6
Introduction:
Essential Question: How did Americans’ interactions with Texas evolve in the time from 1821 until after the Mexican-American War?
Common Core Standards: RH2, RH6
Introduction:
It is difficult to get a good, brief, online history of Texas in English in the period from 1821 until after the Mexican-American War. The following should be read with a critical eye for their overall positive treatment of all things Texas:
Essential Questions:
Was the War of 1812 a “Second American Revolution”?
Or
Was the War of 1812 a war of choice or a war of necessity?
Common Core Standards: RH9, WHST1
Initiation:
Time: 1 Block period (1:45)
Standards:RH1
Objectives: