U.S. History II College Preparatory

Course Level:        College Preparatory

Credits:                   5

Grade Level:          10

Prerequisite:

NJ Course Code:    04-102-E

The US and The World History (a.k.a. US History II) course provides students with essential understandings of the various social, economic, religious, and political forces interwoven in the expansion of the United States and its evolution from hemispheric influence to a global superpower in the Twentieth Century, all resulting in significant changes to the global landscape, political stage, and world economy.  Students should expect engaging, bell-to-bell instruction, purposeful and focused activities, and authentic skills-based formative and summative assessments.  Much of the workload for U.S. History II is focused in the classroom where the expectation for students is to come prepared to meet the goals of the days' lessons through active engagement and participation.  Students will receive homework based upon the need to further demonstrate the understanding of concepts or skills as indicated through the curricular learning objectives.  Both primary and secondary texts and documents of appropriate rigor and challenge are used, including many documents found/retrieved by students independently in class via multiple forms of technology.  Students study historical issues of major significance, including Progressivism, women's rights, segregation and discrimination, immigration, world wars, economic collapse, social reform, and the domestic turbulence of civil disobedience, assassinations, drugs, unpopular war, economic strength, and the importance of an educated electorate to democracy.  It is highly recommended that students who enroll in U.S. History II Honors also enroll in English II Honors.

Holocaust Commission Mandate

The curricula address issues of bias, prejudice and bigotry, including bullying through the teaching of the Holocaust and genocide for all children in grades K to 12. The implementation of this mandate will be found in the district’s K to 12 social studies curriculum,specifically in standard 6.3 (K to 4 and 5 to 8) and during the appropriate time periods in grades 9‐12 (standard 6.1, Era 11 and 6.2, Era 4)

Amistad Commission Mandate

The mandate requires the teaching of the African slave trade, slavery in America,the vestiges of slavery in this country and the contributions of African‐Americans to our society. Evidence is found in all grade bands in the district’s K to 12 social studies curricula, [e.g., units about slavery, civil rights, Contemporary United States History (Era 14)].

LGBT+ A board of education shall include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students as part of the district’s implementation of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Social Studies.