COURSE OUTLINE CALENDAR
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this is the schedule we will be following in U.S. History throughout the entire year. You can usually get a pretty good idea what your homework will be for any given week just by checking this calendar.
August 20 to August 22 – Student Handbook/ Class Orientation
August 25 to August 29 –/Chapter 1
- “Exploration and the Colonial Era”
September 2 to September 8 - - Chapter 2
- “Revolution and the Early Republic
September 9 to September 12--The U.S. Constitution
September 15 to September 19 - Chapter 3
- “The Growth of a Young Nation”
September 22 to September 26 - Chapter 4
- “The Union in Peril”
September 29 to October 3 - Chapter 5
- “Changes on the Western Frontier”
October 6 to October 10 - Chapter 6
- “A New Industrial Age”
October 13 to October 17 - Chapter 7
- “Immigrants and Urbanization”
October 20 to October 24 Chapter 9
- “The Progressive Era”
October 27 to October 31 - Chapter 10
- “America Claims an Empire”
November 3 to November 7 - Chapter 11
- “The First World War”
November 11 to November 14 - Chapter 8
- “Life at the Turn of the Century” & Chapter 12
- “Politics of the Roaring Twenties”
November 17 to November 21- Chapter 13
- “The Roaring Life of the 1920’s”
December 1 to December 5 - Chapter 14
- “The Great Depression Begins”
December 8 to December 12 - Chapter 15
- “The New Deal”
December 15 to December 19 – First Semester Review and Finals Week
January 5 to January 9 - Chapter 16
- “World War Looms”
January 12 to January 16 - Chapter 17
- “The United States in World War II”
January 20 to January 23 - Chapter 19
- “The Postwar Boom”
January 26 to January 30 - Chapter 18
- “Cold War Conflicts”
February 2 to February 6 - Chapter 20
- “The New Frontier and the Great Society”
February 9 to February 13 - Chapter 21
- “Civil Rights”
February 17 to February 27 (Two weeks) - Chapter 22
- “The Vietnam War”
March 2 to March 6 - Chapter 23
- “An Era of Social Change”
March 9 to March 13 - Chapter 24
- “An Age of Limits”
March 16 to March 20 – Chapter 25
- “The Conservative Tide”
April 6 to April 10 - Chapter 26
- “The United States in Today’s World”
April 13 to April 17
- Review for Star Testing/Semester II Objective Final
April 20 to April 24
- “STAR TESTING”
April 27 to May 20 - Supplementary Readings
- “Current Issues: The War on Terror”
May 21 to June 5 - Supplementary Readings
- “Religion in America”
June 8 to June 10 – Second Semester Final Project