Pace Academy
2014-2015
Academic Year
Pacing Guide-U.S. History I & II
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Beginnings to 1861
Chapter 2: Balancing Liberty
Text; Sections: 2-1: Road to Independence
(Declaration)
2-2: The Constitution of the U.S.
2-3: The Origin of American Politics
Slavery
Native
American Resistance
Undeclared
War w/France
The War of 1812
Supplemental: U.S.
Chapter 2 Test
[Fri., 12 September]
Chapter 3: An
Emerging Nation [15
Sept. – 19 Sept.]
Text; Sections: 3-1: Life
in the New Nation
3-2: The Market Revolution
3-3: Religion
and Reform
3-4: The Coming of the Civil War
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes; Chapter Test
September 20th
Saturday School
Chapter 3 Test
[Fri., 19 September]
Unit 2: Building a Powerful
Nation
Chapter 4: The
Civil War
[22 Sept.-4 October]
Text; Sections: 4-1: From
Bull Run to Antietam
4-2: Life Behind the Lines
The Trent
Affair (England )
Page 2 Pacing
Guide (Continued)
Unit 2 (continued)
Chapter 4: The Civil
War (cont’d)
4-3: The Tide of War Turns
4-4:
Devastation and New Freedom
Chapter Test 4
[Fri., 3
Oct. ]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes; Projects
Chapter 5:
Reconstruction
[6-10 October]
Text; Sections: 5-1: Presidential Reconstruction
5-2: Congressional Reconstruction
5-3: Birth of the New South
5-4: The End of Reconstruction
Chapter Test: 5 [Fri., 10 Oct.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes
Chapter 6: The
Expansion of American Industry [13-17
Oct.]
Text; Sections:
6-1: Technological Revolution
6-2: Growth of Big Business
6-3: Industrialization and
Workers
6-4: The Great Strikes
Chapter Test 6 [Fri.,17 Oct.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes; Projects
October 18th
Saturday School
Chapter 7: Looking
to the West 1860-1900
[20-24
Oct.]
Text; Sections:
7-1: Moving West
7-2: Conflicts with American
Indians
7-3: Mining, Ranching, and
Farming
7-4: Populism
Page 3
Pacing Guide (Continued)
Unit 2 (Cont’d)
Chapter 7: Looking
to the West (Cont’d)
Chapter Test 7 [Fri., 24 Oct.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes
Chapter 8 & 9:
Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life;
Life at the Turn of the 20th
Century
[28-31
Oct.]
Text; Sections
8-1: Politics in a Gilded Age
8-2: The Challenge of the Cities
9-1: The Expansion of Education
9-2: The World of Jim Crow
Chapter Test 8, 9
[Fri., 31 Oct.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes
Unit 3: The United States
Chapter 10:
Becoming a World Power 1890-1915 [3-7 Nov.]
Text; Sections:
10-1: The Pressure to Expand
10-2: The Spanish American War
10-3: A New Foreign Policy
10-4: America ’s New Role
Chapter Test 10 [Fri., 7
Nov.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes
November 10-11
Veterans Day/Teacher Workday
Chapter 11: The
Progressive Reform Era 1890-1920 [12-14 Nov.]
Text; Sections: 11-1: The Origins of Progressivism
11-2: Progressive Legislation
11-3: Progressivism under Taft
and Wilson
11-4: Suffrage at Last
Chapter Test 11 [Fri., 14 Nov.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes
November 15th Saturday
School
Page 4
Pacing Guide
(Cont’d)
Unit 3 (cont’d)
Chapter 12: The World War I Era: 1914-1920 [17-21 Nov.]
Text; Sections: 12-1:
The Road to War
12-2: The U.S. Declares War
12-3:
The Americans on the European Front
12-4: The Americans on the Home Front
12-5: Global Peacemaker
Chapter Test 12
[Fri.,
21 Nov.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary, Notes,
Projects
Chapter 14: Politics and Prosperity: 1920-1929 [ Nov.]
Text; Sections: 14-2:
A Business Boom
14-3: The Economy in the Late 1920’s
Chapter Test 14 (Take Home Quiz ) [Due date:
1 Dec.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary, Notes,
Projects
Unit 4: Boom Times to Hard
Times [December]
Chapter 15: Crash and Depression: 1929-1933 [1-5
December]
Text; Sections: 15-1:
The Stock Market Crash
15-3: Surviving the Great Depression
15-4: The Election of 1932
Chapter Test 15 [Fri., 5 Dec.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary, Notes,
Projects
Unit 5; Hot and Cold War
[December]
Chapter 16: The New Deal:
1933-1941; Chapter 17: The
Road
To War: 1931-1941 [ 8-12 Dec.]
Text; Sections: 16-1, 2
Forging A New Deal; Critics
17-1, 2 Rise of Dictators; Europe
Goes to War
17-3 Japan Builds an Empire
17-4 From Isolationism to War
Chapter Test 16, 17
[Fri., 12 Dec.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary, Notes, Projects
Page 5
Pacing Guide (Cont’d)
Unit 5 (cont’d)
Chapter 18: WWII, Americans at War 1941-1945 [15-19
Dec.]
Text; Sections: 18-1
Mobilization; Strategy
18-2
The Holocaust
18-3
Retaking Europe
18-4
The War in the Pacific
Chapter Test 18 [Fri., 19 Dec.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes;
Projects
W I N T E R B R E A K
[22 Dec.-2 Jan.]
Chapter 19: The Cold War 1945-1960
[2-5 Jan.]
Text; Sections 19-1
The Origins of the Cold War
19-2
The Cold War Heats Up
19-3
The Korean War
19-4
Continuing the Cold War
Chapter Test 19
[Fri., 5 Jan.]
Supplemental: Vocabulary; Notes;
Projects
Common Core Review Semester
Test
[8-12 Jan.]
Semester Ends
[16 January]
Unit 6: The U.S.
Text; Chapters: 17- Becoming
a World Power
18- The Progressive Reform Era
19- The World War I Era
Supplemental: Unit Quiz
Unit Project:
Identifying and Testing Alternatives
Field Trip: TBD
.
Unit 7: Boom Times to Hard
Times: 1920-1941 [30 Nov – 22 Jan. ]
Text; Chapters: 20-
Political Parties in our Democracy
21- Voting and Elections
22- Confronting Society’s Problem
23- The New Deal
Supplemental: Chapter Test and Unit Quiz
Unit Project: Why
Did the Market Crash?
Benchmarks
:
Unit 8: Hot and Cold War: 1931-1960 [25 Jan. – 12 Feb.]
Text; Chapters: 24-
WWII-The Road to War: 1931-1945
25- WWII:
Americans at War-1941-1945
26- The Cold War:
1945-1960
27- The Post
War Years at Home
Supplemental: Unit Quiz; Chapter Tests
Unit Projects:
Recognizing Cause and Effect
Benchmarks
Unit 9: A Period of Turmoil and
Change, 1950-1975 [15
Feb.-– 12 March]
Text; Chapters: 28-
The Civil Rights Movement
29- The Kennedy and Johnson Years
30- An Era of Activism
31- The Viet Nam War
Supplemental: Unit Quiz; Chapter Tests
Unit Projects:
Encounters with Segregation
Benchmarks
Page 4
Pacing Guide (Continued)
Unit 10: Continuity and Change: 1969-Present [15 March – 2 April]
Text; Chapters: 32- Nixon, Ford, and Carter
33- The Conservative
Revolution
34- Entering a New
Era
Supplemental: Unit Quiz; Chapter Tests
Unit Projects: Understanding
the Left and the Right
Benchmarks
EOC Review; Project Completions [5 April- 2 June]
Benchmarks; quizzes
