Monday, 08 January 2007

Dear students, parents, and other interested persons,

I hope that this section will prove valuable in that you will be able to better prepare for classes and that you will be less confused in preparing for exams and tests. The page numbers here come from your prescribed text, Holt's rather abbreviated, but accessible, Call to Freedom. The Oxford Native Peoples of the Americas is This page also contains some of my class explanations, additional materials, and past papers.

However, please remember that the material provided here is merely a plan and, while every effort is being made to adhere to it, it must necessarily be subject to change as we struggle our way through the educational gauntlet. So, the final authority on material required for the exams comes from the official school Exam Revision List.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Kerr

`Term I Content`

(Topics covered &

text-book page numbers)

`Skills`

European Commercial Revolution (9)

Early Explorers (10)

Columbian Exchange (11)

European Reformation (12)

Spanish Armada and pirates (12)

Roanoke Colony & Legends (12)

Jamestown Colony (13)

Pilgrim Fathers & Thanksgiving (14-15)

New England Colonies (16)

Salem Witch Trials (16)

Pennsylvania & Quaker Values (17)

Slavery (18)

Independent guided research on any topic of historical interest for students.

Map Work

Using Tables

Ancient maps & drawings

History vs Legend/Film

History vs religion

History and Film

Find/evaluate sources

Summarise/paraphrase

Intro & organisation

Feedback session

Sources List

`Term II Content`

Taxation Acts (21)

Boston Riots (21)

Paul Revere

Lexington (21-23)

Declaration of Independence (30-33)

Yorktown (24)

Treaty of Paris (34-35)

Elected Officials and voters (82-83)

Economic factors leading to war

Industrial North vs Agricultural South (109)

Slavery Issues

Lincoln vs the Confederacy (110)

Famous Names (111-112)

Emancipation of Slaves (112)

NY Riots (112)

Gettysburg Address (113-114)

History & Epic Poetry

Primary Sources

Long & short term causes and effects

Graphs and Charts

Comparison & Contrast Tables

Summarising

Analysing Video

Primary Sources

History vs Film

Primary Sources

`Term III Content`

Western Trails (105)

Mormons (105)

California Gold Rush (107)

Plains Wars (154)

Battle of Little Bighorn (155-156)

Boom Towns (160-161)

Pony Express and Telegraphs (161)

Railroads (162)

Ranches (164-166)

Cowboys (166)

Cattle Drives (167-168)

`Big Business`

Steel (184-185)

Railways (186)

Light & Power (187-188)

Communications (188)

Transport: Cars & Planes (189)

Entrepreneurs (192-193)

`The Workplace`

Unions (198-199)

Immigrants (212-217)

`Cities`

Growth (218-219)

Transportation (219-220)

Problems (221-222)

Corruption (238-239)

Reformers (246-250)

Map Work

Cause & Effect

Point-of-view

Interpreting Art

Compare & contrast

Economic Factors, Graphs

Links with science, and economics

Making inferences,

Interpreting photographs

Analysing diagrams and photographs

Understanding cartoons

`Term IV Content`

`Government & Business`

Ford and the Model T (364-366)

The Car Culture (366-367)

Business Booms (367-368)

Advertising (368-369)

Prohibition and Gangs (380-381)

`Fads and Fun`

Radio (391), Movies (392-393), Sports (393-394)

`The Arts`

The Jazz Age (396)

The Haarlem Renaissance (397-398)

The Lost Generation (398-399)

Fine Art (399-400)

The booming 20s (414-415)

Causes of the Crash

Black Tuesday (415-416)

Economic Collapse (417-419)

Effects on cities (420-421)

Roosevelt (426)

The New Deal (426-427)

Line graphs (83, 99, 177, 185, 251, 263, 404, 466)

Bar graphs (163, 179, 403, 464)

Pie graphs (231)

Tables (367, 436, 439)

Problem-solution

Cause Effect

Tables

Art

Cause-effect

Summarising

Opinions depicted through music, fine art and literature.

Analysing diagrams

Analysing photographs

Analysing graphs

Evaluating solutions

Statistical interpretation

Columbian Exchange.doc

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