Course Overview
This course covers American history from our country’s indigenous roots to current issues that affect the United States today. This course takes a thematic, interdisciplinary, and multicultural approach to deepening students’ understanding of the political, economic, and social foundations of the United States and the legacies we see today. Students are encouraged to investigate the impact of power and resistance in shaping the identity of the United States. Furthermore, students should critically examine the ideals that are essential to the United States and how they have been lived throughout the course of history. Within this course, students will engage in interdisciplinary investigations of the development and legacy chattel slavery, the promises and limitations of the Constitution, the social, cultural and economic impacts of Americas Wars, as well as contemporary American issues and politics to gain a greater understanding of how a global economy impacts social, ethnic, and racial groups in the United States.
The following unit is also a part of this course and will be made available within Skyline in 2022:
- The Red Summer in Chicago (Facing History and Ourselves)
Units
- What's New in Skyline!
- 1. Native Americans of Illinois
- 2. Diversity and Identity in the Story of the United States
- 3. Systems of Power and Their Legacies in the U.S.
- It's Supreme: U.S. Constitution
- Facing History and Ourselves: The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
- 4. The Domestic Impact of War
- 5. Resistance Movements and Struggles
- Reparations Won
- 6. Using Counter Narratives
- 7. U.S. Actions in a Changing World
- 8. Your Place in a More Connected World