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Eighth Grade Traditional History
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Eighth Grade Traditional History Curriculum Guide
Class Length: 36 weeks
Schedule: 5 day/week
Instructions: This curriculum guide provides a full year of instruction using the materials on
SchoolhouseTeachers.com. If you choose to use this method, you do not need to use the lesson plans that are
included with each separate course. This guide incorporates all the content and assignments needed to meet all
the objectives on the Scope and Sequence. As you will see, it incorporates material from multiple courses and
resources and is hyperlinked to each one so that you can find them easily. Lists of additional materials and
resources are also provided. Please note that this is only one way to address the objectives for the year. We
encourage you to find a combination of materials, both on and off our site, that best fits your family.
Resources needed:
• Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com
• 3-ring binder for compiling the notebook assignments
• Access to the Internet, computer, and printer
• Ability to use World Book resources (included with your membership)
In addition, we have other resources that can be used as supplemental material from our site.
• Interdependence of the States
: stand-alone unit in our Unit Studies and More section
• Civil Rights Movement: 18-week course looks at the events leading to the Civil Rights Movement and the
impact of many key figures
• Our World Book libraries include webquests about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Louise Parks.
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Week 1: After the War/Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Week 2: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do/Blockades,
Bombs, and Bolsheviks
Week 3: Blockades, Bombs, and Bolsheviks/The
Great and Mighty Empire
Week 4: The Great and Mighty Empire/The Tiny
Nation That Could
Week 5: The Celestial Empire/Strife and Sacrifice
Week 6: Strife and Sacrifice/Two Men of Influence
Week 7: Two Men of Influence/The People’s
Republic of China
Week 8: The People’s Republic of China/The
Forgotten War
Week 9: The Buck Stops Here/The Golden Decade
Week 10: The Golden Decade/I Like Ike
Week 11: I Like Ike/The Red Scare
Week 12: The Red Scare/Separate and Not So
Equal
Week 13: American in Camelot/Cuba
Week 14: Cuba/The Berlin Wall
Week 15: The Berlin Wall/Meanwhile in China
Week 16: Meanwhile in China/Lyndon B. Johnson
Week 17: Where No Man Has Gone Before/Come
Together
Week 18: Come Together/The Swinging Sixties
Week 19: The Swinging Sixties/Nam
Week 20: Nam/Five Presidents and War
Week 21: Vietnam at Home/Righting Wrongs of 1968
Week 22: Righting Wrongs of 1968/Nixon’s Watergate
Week 23: Nixon’s Watergate/Presidents of the ‘70s
Week 24: Presidents of the ‘70s/The Middle East
Week 25: Terror/The Great Stagflation
Week 26: The Great Stagflation/”Gipper” and “41”
Week 27: “Gipper” and “41”/The Reagan Doctrine
Week 28: The Reagan Doctrine/It All Falls Down
Week 29: Challenger and Challenges/The Persian Gulf
War
Week 30: The Persian Gulf War/The Comeback Kid
Week 31: The Comeback Kid/It’s the ‘90s
Week 32: It’s the ‘90s, “43,” and the Hanging Chads
Week 33: One September Morning/The War on Terror
Week 34: The War on Terror/An Historic Election and
Beyond
Week 35: An Historic Election and Beyond/Current
Events – Why Care?
Week 36: Current Events – Why Care?
*Page numbers provided correspond to the PDF page numbers and not the number at the bottom of
each page.
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Week 1: After the War/Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date:
Click on Unit 1: Lessons 1–9 on the course download page. (Teacher note: Printable
worksheets and additional assignments are at the end of the unit.)
Read Lesson 1, pp. 1–2.
Download Unit 1: Answer, Discuss, and Explore and begin researching the terms
and developing a timeline for Lesson 1.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
Day 2 | Date:
Read Lesson 1, pp. 3–4.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Explore Some More. Take notes on what
you learned.
Answer the second discussion question.
Continue researching terms and adding to your timeline.
Day 3 | Date:
Read Lesson 1, pp. 5–6.
Answer the third discussion question in Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Complete the timeline.
Day 4 | Date:
Answer the fourth discussion question in Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Read Faith Point.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
Day 5 | Date: ____________________________________
Read Lesson 2, page 7.
In Unit 1: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the terms (bottom right)
and adding to your timeline (bottom left).
Print a map and complete the activities in the box in the top left corner.
Answer the questions in the left middle box in your notebook.
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Week 2: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do/Blockades, Bombs, and Bolsheviks
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 2, page 8.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the propaganda cartoon.
Continue researching the terms and adding to your timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 2, pp. 9–10.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin the Discussion activity. Consider writing
more than just a few lines.
Complete the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Discussion activity.
Answer the remaining discussion questions.
Read and complete Faith Point (top right box).
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 3, page 11.
Using Unit 1: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research the terms and add the events
to your timeline.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 3, pp. 12–13, stopping at “A Russian Rewind.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, learn more about the Berlin Airlift. Take notes
on what you learned.
Answer the second discussion question.
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Week 3: Blockades, Bombs, and Bolsheviks/The Great and Mighty Empire
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 3, pp. 13–14.
Answer the third discussion question in Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 2 | Date:
Answer the remaining discussion question in Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
If you have time, watch Fiddler on the Roof.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 4, page 15.
Using Unit 1: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, page 4, research the terms and add the
events to your timeline.
Complete the map activity.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
Day 4 | Date:
Read Lesson 4, page 16.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the videos under Explore Some More.
Take notes on what you learned.
Answer the second discussion question.
Day 5| Date:
Read Lesson 4, pp. 17–18.
Answer the third discussion question in Answer, Discuss, and Explore in your
notebook.
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Week 4: The Great and Mighty Empire/The Tiny Nation That Could
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Answer the remaining discussion question for Lesson 4 in Answer, Discuss, and
Explore.
Copy Genesis 12:1–3 in your notebook, using your best handwriting.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 5, page 19.
Using Unit 1: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research “Israel declares statehood”
and add it to your timeline.
Answer the map questions.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 5, page 20.
Read the memoirs of Clark Clifford found on the Jewish Center for Public Affairs
website (link in third box on right side) in Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Take notes
on what you learned.
Answer the second discussion question.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 5, page 21.
Spend some time looking through the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (link in
bottom right box) in Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Answer the third discussion question.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Copy Hebrews 11:8–12 in your notebook, using your best handwriting.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
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Week 5: The Celestial Empire/Strife and Sacrifice
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 6, page 22.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, look at the brief lesson on imperialism found
in World Book Online.
Print the map of China in the top left box and complete label the locations.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 6, page 23.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, follow the link in the bottom right box to
watch the National Geographic documentary. Take notes on what you learned.
Answer the second discussion question.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 6, pp. 24–25.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the third discussion question.
Complete Unit 1 Extras #1 on page 40 of the lessons—write a report on a
missionary using pp. 41–42.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the remaining discussion questions.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 7, page 26.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the events (top left box) and
add them to your timeline.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
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Week 6: Strife and Sacrifice/Two Men of Influence
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 7, page 27.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Explore Some More. Take notes on
what you learned.
Answer the second discussion question.
Continue researching events and adding to the timeline.
Day 2 | Date:
Read Lesson 7, pp. 28–29.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the third discussion question.
Complete the timeline, if necessary.
Day 3 | Date:
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the remaining discussion question.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 8, page 30.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the first two discussion questions in
your notebook.
Day 5 | Date:
Read Lesson 8, page 31.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Explore Some More and follow the
links. Take notes on what you learned.
Using the questions in the bottom right box, write an essay about the people in
your life who influence you.
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Week 7: Two Men of Influence/The People’s Republic of China
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 8, pp. 32–33.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the third discussion question.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Answer the final discussion question.
Discuss what you learned this week with your teacher.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 9, page 34.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research the events and place them on
your timeline.
Answer the first discussion question.
Day 4 | Date: __________________________________
Read Lesson 9, page 35.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read the fable told by Mao Zedong and
answer the questions below it.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 9, pp. 36–37.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, follow the link to watch “PBS China A
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Week 8: The People’s Republic of China/The Forgotten War
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Print and complete Unit 1 Test, if desired (it is found on the lessons page).
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Click on Unit 2: Lessons 10–15 on the course download page. Print the sheets at
the end of this unit to be used with these lessons.
Read Lesson 10, page 1.
Click on Unit 2: Answer, Discuss, and Explore and begin researching the
terms and add to the timeline.
Complete the map activity.
Answer the first Short Answer question in your notebook.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 10, page 2.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the second Short Answer question.
Watch the documentary about the South Korean wilderness.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 10, pp. 3–5.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the third discussion question.
Watch the National Geographic documentary about North Korea.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the remaining discussion questions.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
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Week 9: The Buck Stops Here/The Golden Decade
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 11, page 6.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, view the image with the piano in the top left
and read the box that is directly below it. Create your own political cartoon.
Answer the first discussion question in your notebook.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 11, page 7.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the second discussion question.
Read and complete Explore Some More.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 11, pp. 8–9.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the third discussion question.
Using the link in the bottom right, watch President Truman play the piano.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the remaining discussion questions.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 12, page 10.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, start the 1950s worksheet activity.
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Week 10: The Golden Decade/I like Ike
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 12, page 11.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, continue to work on the worksheet.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 12, pp. 13–14.
Continue with the worksheet.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Complete the worksheet about the 1950s.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 13, page 14.
Add to your timeline the dates when Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president.
Using the Presidential Biography Organizer on page 35 of the lessons, begin
researching Dwight D. Eisenhower and writing an essay about him. Take your time!
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 13, page 15.
Continue working on your presidential biography.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch “Eisenhower: The American
Experience.”
Take a virtual visit of President Eisenhower’s Presidential Library using the link in
the bottom left box.
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Week 11: I Like Ike/The Red Scare
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 13, pp. 16–17.
Complete the rough draft of your paper.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Complete the final draft of your presidential biography.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 14, pp. 18–19.
Print the propaganda notebooking found on pp. 23–24. Use these with Answer,
Discuss, and Explore.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read the box titled “Propaganda” and start the
working on your propaganda poster.
Day 4 | Date:
Read Lesson 14, page 20.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research parts of the lesson as suggested in
the bottom left box.
Answer the first two discussion questions.
Continue work on your project.
Day 5 | Date:
Read Lesson 14, pp. 21–22.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the third discussion question.
Complete your poster or project.
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Week 12: The Red Scare/Separate and Not So Equal
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Unit 2: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the remaining discussion
questions.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Present your poster or project.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 15, pp. 25–26.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the first three discussion questions.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 15, page 27.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research the terms and add dates to your
timeline.
Answer the fourth discussion question.
Look at the cartoon and answer the questions below it.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 15, pp. 28–29.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete the box titled In Their Own
Words.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the remaining discussion questions.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Complete any unfinished work.
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Week 13: America in Camelot/Cuba
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Click on Unit 3: Lessons 16–22 on the course download page.
Read Lesson 16, page 1.
Download Unit 3: Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Use pp. 9–10 at the end of Unit 3: Answer, Discuss, and Explore to complete the
Presidential Biography.
Research the terms and add them to your timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 16, page 2.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Explore Some More. Take notes on what
you learned.
Watch the American Experience documentary about JFK.
Continue working on the biography.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 16, pp. 3–4.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete the box titled “First Hand.”
Continue to work on the biography.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Present the biography you completed.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 17, page 5 and the two lines at the top of page 6.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the terms and add the
dates to your timeline.
Take a look at the map and answer the question found in the second box on the
left.
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Week 14: Cuba/The Berlin Wall
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 17, page 6 and the top of page 7.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Explore Some More. Take notes on what
you learned.
Continue researching terms and adding them to your timeline.
Answer the first three discussion questions.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 17, pp. 7–9.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the fourth and fifth discussion
questions.
Using the link in “From Russia,” watch the video about the Crisis.
Complete the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, finish the discussion questions.
Complete any unfinished activities.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 18, page 10.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, print and complete the map found in “It’s Map
Time!”
Spend some time researching the creation of the Berlin Wall and add the date to
your timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 18, page 11.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the video of the German Exhibition at
the British Museum in Explore Some More. Take notes on what you learned.
Answer the first three discussion questions.
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Week 15: The Berlin Wall/Meanwhile in China
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 18, pp. 12–13.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Explore Some More.
Answer the remaining discussion questions.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 19, page 14 and the top of page 15.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete “Watch a Missionary Biography.”
Begin researching the terms and add to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date:
Read Lesson 19, pp. 15–16
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the first, third, and fourth activities
in Explore Some More. Take notes on what you learned.
Answer the first three discussion questions.
Continue researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 5 | Date:
Read Lesson 19, page 17.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the second activity in Explore Some
More. Take notes on what you learned.
Complete the discussion questions.
Complete the timeline.
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Week 16: Meanwhile in China/Lyndon B. Johnson
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read the bottom left box about the Chinese
children’s song.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 20, page 18.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin working on the Presidential Biography
using the worksheet on page 6.
Research the terms and add them to your timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 20, pp. 19–20.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the two listening activities in Explore
Some More. Take notes on what you learned.
Continue working on the biography.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Find a short video that speaks of Lyndon Johnson’s life and/or presidency on
YouTube or other such video service.
Follow the link to the LBJ Library and spend some time looking around.
Continue to work on the biography.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Present the biography you completed.
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Week 17: Where No Man Has Gone Before/Come Together
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 21, page 21.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the terms and add to the
timeline.
Answer the first discussion question.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 21, page 22.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Read and complete Explore Some More. Take
notes on what you learned. (Watching Hidden Figures is optional.)
Answer the second discussion question.
Continue researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 21, pp. 23–25.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the last two discussion questions.
Complete Fly Me to the Moon.
Complete the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 22, page 26, stopping at “Protest!”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore and pp. 9–10, begin working on your famous
American biography.
Begin researching the terms and adding events to your timeline.
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Week 18: Come Together/The Swinging Sixties
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 22, pp. 26–27, beginning at “Protest!”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete the top right box about the
“I Have a Dream” speech. Take notes on what you learned.
Continue to work on the biography.
Continue to research terms and add events to your timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 22, pp. 28–30.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the discussion questions.
Continue to work on the biography.
Complete researching terms and adding events to your timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Present the biography you completed.
Complete the Unit 3 test, if desired.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Download Unit 4: Lessons 23–27 from the course download page.
Read Lesson 23, page 1.
Download Unit 4: Answer, Discuss, and Explore and begin working on the
WebQuest on page 1.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 23, page 2.
Continue working on the WebQuest.
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Week 19: The Swinging Sixties/Nam
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 23, pp. 3–5.
Click on Unit 4: Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Continue to work on the WebQuest.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Complete the WebQuest.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 24, page 4.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete “It’s Map Time!”
Begin researching the Geneva Accords and add any pertinent dates to your
timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 24, page 5.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete Explore Some More. Take
notes on what you learned.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 24, pp. 6–7.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the discussion questions.
Read the World Book article about President Wilson’s Fourteen Points using the
link in the bottom left box.
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Week 20: Nam/Five Presidents and War
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 25, page 8 and the top of page 9, stopping at “Eisenhower’s Domino.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete “It’s Map Time!”
Read the information in the bottom right box and click on the Timeline feature link.
This activity can be worked on throughout the week.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 25, pp. 9–10, stopping at “Kennedy Arms.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read the story of the American officer and
watch the first video (viewer discretion is advised) in Explore Some More. Take
notes on what you learned.
Continue researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 25, pp. 10–13.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, finish Explore Some More.
Answer the discussion questions.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
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Week 21: Vietnam at Home/Righting the Wrongs of 1968
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 26, pp. 14–15, stopping at “In the News.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete In the News. For the final video, go
to YouTube and search “NBC Radio News 1972 Vietnam” and choose one or more
of the videos. It is a radio broadcast, so there might not be an actual video that
plays.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 26, pp. 15–16, stopping at “More Trouble.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Protest activities.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 26, pp. 16–18.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the first three discussion questions.
Watch the first four videos in In Their Own Words.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the last two discussion questions.
Watch the last video in In Their Words.
Read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 27, pp. 19–20, stopping at “Indian Citizenship Act.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete It’s Map Time!
Begin working on your timeline.
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Week 22: Righting the Wrongs of 1968/Nixon’s Watergate
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 27, pp. 20–21.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Explore Some More. Take notes on
what you learned. (You may want to break this up a bit since the Alcatraz radio
panel audio is more than an hour long.)
Continue working on your timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 27, pp. 22–23.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Short Answer questions
Read the Alcatraz Proclamation. The link is provided in the bottom left box.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Complete the Unit 4 test, if desired.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Click on Unit 5: Lessons 28–32 on the course download page.
Read Lesson 28, pp. 1–2.
Download Unit 5: Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Use page 2 to begin a biography of
Nixon.
Complete In Their Own Words.
Begin researching the terms and add dates to your timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 28, pp. 3–4, stopping at “Taped.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the documentaries and use the
notebooking pages on page 3 to write about what you learned.
Continue working on the biography.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
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Week 23: Nixon’s Watergate/Presidents of the ‘70s
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 28, pp. 4–6.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore
Continue to work on the biography.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Present the biography you completed.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 29, pp. 7–8, stopping at Jimmy Carter.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching and writing biographies for
Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Use the Presidential Biography Organizer on page 2
for directions.
Research the terms and add the dates to your timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 29, pp. 8–9.
Continue working on the biography.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Watch section by viewing the
videos.
Continue to work on the biography.
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Week 24: Presidents of the ‘70s/The Middle East
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Present the biography you completed.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 30, page 10.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete It’s Map Time.
Begin researching the terms and add to the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 30, page 11.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Explore Some More. Take notes on what
you learned. The Sahara Desert documentary is very long. You may want to split it
between days. Use this YouTube video for the Suez Canal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jl5y-1ewW8
.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 30, pp. 12–13.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Short Answer questions.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
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Week 25: Terror/The Great Stagflation
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 31, pp. 14–15, stopping at “Iran Hostage Crisis.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the terms and add to the
timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 31, pp. 15–16.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete Explore Some More. Take
notes on what you learned.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 31, page 17.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the discussion questions.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and complete it.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 32, pp. 18–19, stopping at “Stagflation?”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the terms and add to the
timeline.
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Week 26: The Great Stagflation/The “Gipper” and “41”
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 32, pp. 19–20, stopping at “Oil Shortage.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Read Explore Some More. Take notes on what
you learned. (You may want to preview or omit altogether the Crash Course video
as some words and references may be deemed unacceptable for your student.)
The Economics course is no longer available.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 32, pp. 20–22.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, answer the discussion questions.
Look at the political cartoon and answer the question to the left of it.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete any unanswered discussion
questions.
Download, print, and complete the Unit 5 test, if desired.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Click on Unit 6: Lessons 33–37 on the course download page.
Read Lesson 33, pp. 1–2.
Download Unit 6: Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Use page 2 to complete the
Presidential Biography.
Begin researching the terms and add to the timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 33, pp. 3–4.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the four videos (the first one is
optional). Take notes on what you learned.
Continue working on your biography
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
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Week 27: The “Gipper” and “41”/The Reagan Doctrine
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 33, pp. 5–6.
Complete your biography.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete Faith Point.
Present your biography.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 34, pp. 7–9, stopping at “The Reagan Doctrine.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete It’s Map Time!
Begin researching the terms and add to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 34, pp. 9–11.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch some of the videos. Take notes on
what you learned.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the videos not watched the previous
day. Take notes on what you learned.
Complete the discussion questions.
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Week 28: The Reagan Doctrine/It All Falls Down
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Faith Point.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 35, pp. 12–13, stopping at “Every Day Behind the Iron Curtain.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, print the notebooking pages (5–6).
Begin researching the terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 35, pp. 13–15, stopping at “Finding Freedom.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the videos that are in In Their Own
Words. Take notes on what you learned. (The first video begins with a bit about Las
Vegas but nothing offensive.)
Work on the notebooking assignment.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 35, pp. 15–18.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Explore Some More.
Watch the Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall Documentary using
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myW1Padwxqk
.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the discussion questions.
Complete Faith Point.
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Week 29: Challenger and Challenges/The Persian Gulf War
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 36, pp. 19–20, stopping at “Gate of Heavenly Peace.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin the ‘80s’ WebQuest.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 36, pp. 20–21.
Continue working on the 80’s Web Quest.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 36, pp. 22–23.
Continue working on the ‘80s’ Web Quest.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Complete any unfinished work.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 37, pp. 24–25.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, begin researching the terms and adding to the
timeline.
Complete It’s Map Time!
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Week 30: The Persian Gulf War/The Comeback Kid
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 37, pp. 26.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Explore Some More. Take notes on
what you learn.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Short Answer section.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Soldier Stories.
Download, print, and complete the Unit 6 test, if desired.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Click on Unit 7: Lessons 38–44 on the course download page.
Read Lesson 38, pp. 1–2.
Download Unit 7: Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Use page 2 to begin working on
the Presidential Biography.
Begin researching the terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 38, page 3.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Explore Some More. Taking notes on
what you learn. (The American Experience video links are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dDwNowackQ
for Part 1 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WaCJ1WzPcM for Part 2.)
Continue to work on the biography.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
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Week 31: The Comeback Kid/It’s The ‘90s
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 38, page 4.
Complete the biography.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete Faith Point.
Present your biography.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 39, pp. 5–6, stopping at “Bosnia.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore. pick a topic for the research assignment and
begin researching today. Print the Newspaper Brainstorming pages (pp. 4 and 5).
Begin researching the terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 39, pp. 6–8, stopping at “Oklahoma City.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the bottom right box. Take notes on
what you learn.
Continue the research assignment.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 39, pp. 8–9.
Complete the research assignment.
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Week 32: It’s the ‘90s/”43” and the Hanging Chads
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Present the research assignment.
Complete It’s Map Time!
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 40, pp. 10–11, stopping at “The Electoral College.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, print page 2 to begin the Presidential
Biography.
Begin researching the terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 40, page 11.
In Answer, Discuss, and Explore, the Explore Some More section contains a couple
of long videos and a few shorter ones plus some reading. Split these up as you see
fit over the next three days. Take notes on what you learn.
Continue work on the biography.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 40, page 12.
Complete the biography.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete the Faith Point.
Present the biography.
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Week 33: The September Morning/The War on Terror
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 41, pp. 13–15, stopping at “Collapse.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, pick a topic for the research assignment (top
left box) and begin researching today. Print the Notebooking pages on pp. 9 and
10.
Begin researching the terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 41, pp. 15–17, stopping at “Al-Qaeda.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Watch one or all of the News Reports on 9/11
as It Happened videos, taking notes on what you learn. (Some of the videos may be
of a sensitive nature. Consider previewing them.)
Complete First Responders section.
Continue the research assignment.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 41, pp. 17–18.
Click on Unit 7: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read and complete Faith Point.
Complete the main research assignment.
Research on one of the men listed in the box: Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, etc.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Click on Unit 7: Answer, Discuss, and Explore, complete The Government
Responds.
Present the research assignment.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 42, pp. 19–20.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, find the definitions to the words in the bottom
left box and add important dates to your timeline.
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Week 34: The War on Terror/An Historic Election and Beyond
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 42, pp. 21–23, stopping at “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch some of the videos in the Explore Some
More section (you’ll watch the rest on Day 2). Take notes on what you learn.
Complete discussion questions through “What are weapons of mass destruction?”
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 42, pp. 23–24.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the rest of the videos in the Explore
Some More section
Complete the article from the National Review.
Answer the remaining discussion questions.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, read Faith Point and the linked article.
Complete any unfinished work.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 43, page 25–26, stopping at “Donald Trump.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore. Use page 13 to complete a biography for each
president in this lesson. Start your research.
Begin researching the terms and adding to the timeline.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 43, pp 26–27.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, watch the first four videos in Explore Some
More. Take notes on what you learn. (The last video is quite long, so it will be
assigned next week.
Continue work on the presidential biography.
Start work on the First Ladies report. Choose one First Lady and use pp. 14–17 to
write your report.
Complete researching terms and adding to the timeline.
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Week 35: An Historic Election and Beyond/Current Events–Why Care?
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore.
Watch the final video under Explore Some More. Begin watching at 10:30 in.
Complete the biography.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Present your presidential biography.
Complete the First Ladies report.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 44, pp. 28–30, stopping at “Migrant Workers.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research The Women’s Movement.
Research the European Union.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 44, pp. 30–32, stopping at “Human Trafficking.”
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research the Internet.
Research Migrant Farm Workers.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Read Lesson 44, pp. 32–34.
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research Environmentalism.
Research Human Trafficking.
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Week 36: Current Events - Why Care?
NOTES:
Read material and complete activities from the course US and Modern World History.
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Using Answer, Discuss, and Explore, research Global Terrorism.
Download, print, and complete the Unit 7 test, if desired.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Pick a current event that interests you and begin research to create a poster
presentation. Be creative.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Continue your research and begin organizing information on your poster.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Finish your current event poster presentation.
Day 5 | Date: _________________________________
Present your current event poster to your teacher or audience.
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