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December 2014

Unit Cover Page


Unit Title: World War I
Time Frame: 3 weeks
Course: U.S. History
Grade Level: 11

CURRICULUM/STANDARDS
List all appropriate national, state or district curriculum or standards that align to this unit:

Concept 7: Emergence of the Modern United States


PO 2. Assess how the following social developments influenced American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries:
a. Civil Rights issues (e.g., Womens Suffrage Movement, Dawes Act, Indian schools, lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson)
b. changing patterns in Immigration (e.g., Ellis Island, Angel Island, Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Act of 1924)
d. mass media (e.g., political cartoons, muckrakers, yellow journalism, radio)
e. consumerism (e.g., advertising, standard of living, consumer credit)
PO 3. Analyze events which caused a transformation of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:
f. World War I (e.g., League of Nations, Isolationism)
g. Red Scare/Socialism

KEY THEMES/QUESTIONS
List the key themes/questions that are guiding this unit:
How did World War I and its aftermath impact the U.S. at home?
How did it affect minorities (women, African Americans, Mexican Americans)?
How did it change U.S.-foreign relations?

ASSESSMENT
List the assessments that will be used to gauge student learning. This may include traditional quizzes or
exams, as well as major learning activities such as simulations, labs, etc.
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Two exit tickets in a quiz-like format that addresses the weeks readings (each will be done on Fridays)
Test

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RESOURCES/MATERIALS
List all resources (copyrighted or otherwise) that you will need to teach this unit. This should be a
comprehensive list of all resources you will need to create or borrow (including textbook chapters, additional
readings, videos, power points and teaching notes, handouts, assessments, etc.)
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American Vision - Chapter 16


YouTube video on Espionage and Sedition Acts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_gj4UFegBQ
Summaries from PBS on Schenck v. U.S. and Abrams v. U.S.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/capitalism/landmark_schenck.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/landmark_abrams.html
Pictures and diary entries of servicemen and women
Maps of Europe during WWI
Trench warfare and wartime technology pictures
Political cartoons or posters to be shown in class daily as a starter (except for test and survey day)
Great Migration pictures, advertisements for work, newspaper snippets from the Crisis and Chicago Defender
Zimmerman telegram
Prompts for exit tickets
Test
PowerPoint presentations on: American involvement in the war, wartime agencies and funding, Russian establishment
of communism, end of the war and treaty, and the aftermath of the war

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Unit Calendar
(For each class period, list the topic of the day, as well as main learning activities. You may list standards if you
choose.)
(Insert or delete days of the week as appropriate for your school district calendar. Add or delete weeks depending
on the length of your unit.)

MONDAY
Jan. 19th

TUESDAY
Jan. 20th

WEDNESDAY
Jan. 21st

THURSDAY
Jan. 22nd

FRIDAY
Jan. 23rd

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Day
No School

Review WWI in
Europe
- Reading in class and
PowerPoint

Espionage and
support for the war
at home
- Watch video on the
Espionage and
Sedition Acts. Read
Supreme Court
summaries.
Discussion.

Wartime agencies
and funding the
war
- PowerPoint on the
topic and exit ticket at
the end of class on
the readings in class
this week.

Jan. 26th

Jan. 27th

How did America


get involved?
German
submarines vs.
American ships.
The Zimmerman
telegram
- Anticipatory Set to
be used and
PowerPoint. Read
Zimmerman
telegram.
Jan. 28th

Jan. 29th

Jan. 30th

Workforce at home:
women, Mexican
Americans, and
African Americans
- Reading in class and
PowerPoint (emphasis
on female and Mex.
Am. Experience)

The beginning of
the Great Migration
(African American
experiences from
yesterday to be
fleshed out more)
- Picture carousel
around the room with

Trench warfare and


wartime technology
- PowerPoint of the
technological
advances, analysis
and discussion of
them and their impact
on the war. Exit ticket

The draft, American


soldiers
experience, African
Americans and
women in the
military
- Reading in class.

Continuation of
American military
experience, with
emphasis on
African Americans
and women
- Using primary
sources again to

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Pictures, descriptions,
and journal/diary
entries to be
employed.
Feb. 2nd

discuss African
American and female
experience in the
military.
Feb. 3rd

Continue
discussion of
technology and
U.S. Battles on the
Western Front
- Reading in class and
PowerPoint
presentation.

Russias exit from


the war and
establishment of
communism in
1917
- Map activity and
analysis to look at the
changing European
borders. Discussion
on how Russias move
will later affect U.S.
history.

Great Migration
pictures. Discussion.

Feb. 4th

Feb. 5th

End of the war and


Treaty of Versailles.
(Focus on German
reparations and
League of Nations)
- (Post survey for
research will be
handed out this day
at the beginning of
class)
- Reading in class and
discussion about the
importance of the
League of Nations and
about how German
reparations will later
contribute to bringing
about WWII.

The aftermath:
Inflation and
strikes, racial
unrest and the
Red Summer of
1919, the Red
Scare and creation
of the FBI
(xenophobia and
limits on
immigration)
- Discussion revolving
around the use of
photographs and
other primary
sources.

on reading from this


week.

Feb. 6th
WWI Test

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