[District Planner has this Unit scheduled for 4 weeks]

Economic Understandings: use basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, voluntary exchange,productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events.

o Embedded some specifics under Unit 5 (cattle drives and beef prices; Panama Canal and increased trade)

Direct review and teaching for four major sectors in the U.S. Economy (connect back to teaching 1st Quarter with Rights & Responsibilities & Economic Review)

o Bank function in providing checking and savings accounts and loans.o Government function in taxation and providing certain goods and services.

Civic Understandings: Students will explain how Constitutional Amendments have maintained a representative democracy. (Amirah & Joni)

o Explain how voting rights were protected by the 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th

amendments. (may also move forward and include Voting Rights Act of 1965)

Historic Understandings: Students will describe the U.S. involvement in World War I and post WWI America (Warren & Will)

o Sinking of the Lusitania --- Explain how German attacks on U.S. shipping during the war in Europe (1914-17) led the U.S. to join the fight against Germany.

o Concern over safety of U.S. shipso U.S. Contributions to the Waro Treaty of Versailles – 1919

o The Jazz Age – Music Focus - cultural developments and individual contributions of the 1920’s & 1930’s: Louis Armstrong &: Duke Ellington (Kaylie & Keyoni)

o Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes (Victor & Xi)o Baseball and Babe Ruth (Tao)o Transportation Advances of the 20’s & 30’s: the Automobile and Henry Ford & the

Airplane and Charles Lindbergh (Ian & Jai)

Historic Understandings: Students will explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans (Chyna & Hanna)

o Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Chyna)o Herbert Hoover (Chyna)o Franklin Roosevelt (Hanna)o The Dust Bowl (Avery & NaVadica)o Soup Kitchens (Andriana)o Main features of the New Deal and “alphabet soup” --- the CCC, WPA, and TVA

(Hanna)o Cultural elements of the 1930’s:

o Duke Ellington (Kaylie & Keyoni)o Margaret Mitchell (Direct Teaching)o Jesse Owens (DeAundrea)

RESEARCH GUIDE1. Research key people from the turn of the century (late 1800’s/early 1900’s)

Why is this person important to this time period?o What was this person’s time period? Birth date? Death date?

Why is this person famous? What impact did this person have on American life? What influence did their background or childhood play in who they became? What obstacles did this person have to overcome? How did geography or location influence this person?

2. Research important events from the turn of the century (late 1800’s/early 1900’s) Where did this event occur? Why is this event important? How did location or geography influence this event? What change(s) occurred in the course of American history as a result of this

event? What were the short-term consequences of this event? Were there any long-range consequences of this event? How might the course of history been different if this event had not

happened?