History
Teachers will form daily lesson plans for 9th-grade history classes around the following outlines derived from Khan Academy.
9th Grade, Fall Semester
World History, 600 BC to 600 AD
Week 1: Early Human Societies (pre-600 BC)
Week 2: The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Agriculture
Week 3: Ancient Mesopotamia
Week 4: Ancient Egypt
Week 5: Ancient India
Week 6: Shang China
Week 7: Ancient Persia
Week 8: Classical Greece
Week 9: The Empire of Alexander the Great
Week 10: The Roman Empire
Week 11: Imperial China
Week 12: Early Judaism
Week 13: Early Christianity
Week 14: Early Hinduism
Week 15: Early Buddhism
Week 16: Syncretism
Week 17: Transregional Trade: The Silk Road
Week 18: Finals
9th Grade, Spring Semester
World History, 600 AD to 1900
Week 1: Byzantine Empire
Week 2: European Middle Ages: feudalism and serfdom
Week 3: Origins of Islam
Week 4: Spread of Islam
Week 5: The Mongols
Week 6: Song China
Week 7: Medieval Japan
Week 8: Maya, Aztec and Inca
Week 9: Human migration
Week 10: Development of new trading cities
Week 11: Cultural interactions along trade routes
Week 12: Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Week 13: Mughal Rule in India
Week 14: Sikhism
Week 15: European Renaissance
Week 16: The Russian empire
Week 17: French Revolution/Latin American independence
Week 18: Finals
10th Grade, Fall Semester
Teachers will form daily lesson plans for 10th grade history classes around the following outline largely derived from William J. Bennett’s two-volume America: The Last Best Hope.
U.S. History, 1492 to 1914
Week 1: Westward the Course (1492-1607)
Week 2: A City Upon a Hill (1607-1765)
Week 3: The Greatest Revolution (1765-1783)
Week 4: Reflection and Choice: Framing the Constitution (1783-1789)
Week 5: The New Republic (1789-1801)
Week 6: The Jeffersonians (1801-1829)
Week 7: Jackson and Democracy (1829-1849)
Week 8: The Rising Storm (1849-1861
Week 9: Freedom’s Fiery Trial (1860-1863)
Week 10-13: In-Depth Study of Pres. Lincoln and the Civil War (“Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
Week 14: A New Birth of Freedom (1863-1865
Week 15: To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds (1865-1877)
Week 16: An Age More Golden than Gilded (1877-1897)
Week 17: The American Dynamo – Shadowed by War (1897-1914)
Week 18: Finals
10th Grade, Spring Semester
U.S. History, 1914 to Present Day
Week 1: America and the Great War (1914-1921)
Week 2: The Boom and the Bust (1921-1933)
Week 3: FDR and the New Deal (1933-1939)
Week 4: America’s Rendezvous with Destiny (1939-1941)
Week 5: Leading the Grand Alliance (1941-1943)
Week 6: America Victorious (1943-1945)
Week 7: Truman Defends the Free World (1945-1953)
Week 8: Eisenhower and Happy Days (1953-1961)
Week 9: Passing the Torch (1961-1969)
Week 10: Nixon’s the One (1969-1974)
Week 11: The Years the Locust Ate (1974-1981)
Week 12: Reagan and Revival (1981-1989)
Week 13: The 1990s – Advent of the World Wide Web and Technology
Week 14: America Attacked, 9-11
Week 15: Elections to Remember: 2000, 2008, 2016
Week 16: The Post-Crash Decade
Week 17: How Do We Continue the Story?
Week 18: Finals
11th Grade, Fall Semester
U.S. Government
Week 1: U.S. House of Representatives
Week 2: U.S. House of Representatives
Week 3: U.S. Senate
Week 4: U.S. Senate
Week 5: President
Week 6: President
Week 7: First Lady
Week 8: President’s Staff
Week 9: Supreme Court
Week 10: Supreme Court
Week 11: Cabinet Agencies
Week 12: Cabinet Agencies
Week 13: Governors
Week 14: Governors
Week 15: State Legislatures
Week 16: City Government
Week 17: Voters, Advocacy
Week 18: Finals
11th Grade, Spring Semester
Economics
Lesson plans to be developed around economist Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics.
Week 1: What is Economics?
Week 2: Prices and Markets
Week 3: The Rise and Fall of Businesses
Week 4: The Role of Profits and Losses
Week 5: Business and Government
Week 6: Productivity and Pay
Week 7: Controlled Labor Markets
Week 8: Investment and Speculation
Week 9: Risk and Insurance
Week 10: National Output
Week 11: Money and the Banking System
Week 12: The Role of Government
Week 13: International Trade
Week 14: International Transfers of Wealth
Week 15: “Non-Economic” Values
Week 16: Myths About Markets
Week 17: Project
Week 18: Finals
12th Grade, Fall Semester
Minnesota History
Teachers will develop lessons around a variety of sources, including A Popular History of Minnesota by Norman Risjord.
Week 1: Of Ice and Early Man
Week 2: First Nation’s (The Dakota, The Ojibwe)
Week 3: Explorers and Fur Traders
Week 4: Explorers and Fur Traders
Week 5: From Wilderness to Statehood
Week 6: From Wilderness to Statehood
Week 7: Minnesota’s Two-Front Civil War
Week 8: The Early Impact of the Church
Week 9: Life on the Prairie
Week 10: The Influence of the Logging and Rail Industries
Week 11: The Birth of the Mill City
Week 12: Ignatius Donnelly and the Politics of Reform
Week 13: Birth of the Farmer-Labor Party
Week 14: The Cloquet Fire and Other Notable Disasters
Week 15: Lindberg’s Historic Flight
Week 16: Humphrey and Civil Rights
Week 17: Minnesota Exceptionalism: Host to Corporations
Week 18: Finals
12th Grade, Spring Semester
Twin Cities History
History of the Twin Cities curriculum to be developed. Students to be encouraged to work with community historical societies.
9th Grade, Fall Semester
World History, 600 BC to 600 AD
Week 1: Early Human Societies (pre-600 BC)
Week 2: The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Agriculture
Week 3: Ancient Mesopotamia
Week 4: Ancient Egypt
Week 5: Ancient India
Week 6: Shang China
Week 7: Ancient Persia
Week 8: Classical Greece
Week 9: The Empire of Alexander the Great
Week 10: The Roman Empire
Week 11: Imperial China
Week 12: Early Judaism
Week 13: Early Christianity
Week 14: Early Hinduism
Week 15: Early Buddhism
Week 16: Syncretism
Week 17: Transregional Trade: The Silk Road
Week 18: Finals
9th Grade, Spring Semester
World History, 600 AD to 1900
Week 1: Byzantine Empire
Week 2: European Middle Ages: feudalism and serfdom
Week 3: Origins of Islam
Week 4: Spread of Islam
Week 5: The Mongols
Week 6: Song China
Week 7: Medieval Japan
Week 8: Maya, Aztec and Inca
Week 9: Human migration
Week 10: Development of new trading cities
Week 11: Cultural interactions along trade routes
Week 12: Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Week 13: Mughal Rule in India
Week 14: Sikhism
Week 15: European Renaissance
Week 16: The Russian empire
Week 17: French Revolution/Latin American independence
Week 18: Finals
10th Grade, Fall Semester
Teachers will form daily lesson plans for 10th grade history classes around the following outline largely derived from William J. Bennett’s two-volume America: The Last Best Hope.
U.S. History, 1492 to 1914
Week 1: Westward the Course (1492-1607)
Week 2: A City Upon a Hill (1607-1765)
Week 3: The Greatest Revolution (1765-1783)
Week 4: Reflection and Choice: Framing the Constitution (1783-1789)
Week 5: The New Republic (1789-1801)
Week 6: The Jeffersonians (1801-1829)
Week 7: Jackson and Democracy (1829-1849)
Week 8: The Rising Storm (1849-1861
Week 9: Freedom’s Fiery Trial (1860-1863)
Week 10-13: In-Depth Study of Pres. Lincoln and the Civil War (“Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
Week 14: A New Birth of Freedom (1863-1865
Week 15: To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds (1865-1877)
Week 16: An Age More Golden than Gilded (1877-1897)
Week 17: The American Dynamo – Shadowed by War (1897-1914)
Week 18: Finals
10th Grade, Spring Semester
U.S. History, 1914 to Present Day
Week 1: America and the Great War (1914-1921)
Week 2: The Boom and the Bust (1921-1933)
Week 3: FDR and the New Deal (1933-1939)
Week 4: America’s Rendezvous with Destiny (1939-1941)
Week 5: Leading the Grand Alliance (1941-1943)
Week 6: America Victorious (1943-1945)
Week 7: Truman Defends the Free World (1945-1953)
Week 8: Eisenhower and Happy Days (1953-1961)
Week 9: Passing the Torch (1961-1969)
Week 10: Nixon’s the One (1969-1974)
Week 11: The Years the Locust Ate (1974-1981)
Week 12: Reagan and Revival (1981-1989)
Week 13: The 1990s – Advent of the World Wide Web and Technology
Week 14: America Attacked, 9-11
Week 15: Elections to Remember: 2000, 2008, 2016
Week 16: The Post-Crash Decade
Week 17: How Do We Continue the Story?
Week 18: Finals
11th Grade, Fall Semester
U.S. Government
Week 1: U.S. House of Representatives
Week 2: U.S. House of Representatives
Week 3: U.S. Senate
Week 4: U.S. Senate
Week 5: President
Week 6: President
Week 7: First Lady
Week 8: President’s Staff
Week 9: Supreme Court
Week 10: Supreme Court
Week 11: Cabinet Agencies
Week 12: Cabinet Agencies
Week 13: Governors
Week 14: Governors
Week 15: State Legislatures
Week 16: City Government
Week 17: Voters, Advocacy
Week 18: Finals
11th Grade, Spring Semester
Economics
Lesson plans to be developed around economist Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics.
Week 1: What is Economics?
Week 2: Prices and Markets
Week 3: The Rise and Fall of Businesses
Week 4: The Role of Profits and Losses
Week 5: Business and Government
Week 6: Productivity and Pay
Week 7: Controlled Labor Markets
Week 8: Investment and Speculation
Week 9: Risk and Insurance
Week 10: National Output
Week 11: Money and the Banking System
Week 12: The Role of Government
Week 13: International Trade
Week 14: International Transfers of Wealth
Week 15: “Non-Economic” Values
Week 16: Myths About Markets
Week 17: Project
Week 18: Finals
12th Grade, Fall Semester
Minnesota History
Teachers will develop lessons around a variety of sources, including A Popular History of Minnesota by Norman Risjord.
Week 1: Of Ice and Early Man
Week 2: First Nation’s (The Dakota, The Ojibwe)
Week 3: Explorers and Fur Traders
Week 4: Explorers and Fur Traders
Week 5: From Wilderness to Statehood
Week 6: From Wilderness to Statehood
Week 7: Minnesota’s Two-Front Civil War
Week 8: The Early Impact of the Church
Week 9: Life on the Prairie
Week 10: The Influence of the Logging and Rail Industries
Week 11: The Birth of the Mill City
Week 12: Ignatius Donnelly and the Politics of Reform
Week 13: Birth of the Farmer-Labor Party
Week 14: The Cloquet Fire and Other Notable Disasters
Week 15: Lindberg’s Historic Flight
Week 16: Humphrey and Civil Rights
Week 17: Minnesota Exceptionalism: Host to Corporations
Week 18: Finals
12th Grade, Spring Semester
Twin Cities History
History of the Twin Cities curriculum to be developed. Students to be encouraged to work with community historical societies.