History Now. From the Teachers Desk



	Introduction Lesson Plan 1: High School Lesson Plan 2: High School Lesson Plan 3: Middle School Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School Search Lesson Plans by History Standard

Lesson Plan 1: High School

The Jungle
By Roberta McCutcheon

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)--
Standard 1: How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people.

Lesson Plan 2: High School

The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass and the Origins of American Music
By Erin Cavallaro

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) -- Standard 2: How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions.
Standard 3: The extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800.
Standard 4: The sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period.

Lesson Plan 3: Middle School

Farewell to Manzanar: Japanese Internment Camps During World War II
By Nicole Marsala

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 8: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)--
Standard 3: The causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the US role in world affairs.

Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School

Going to School, Then and Now: Education in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird
By Carla Nordstrom

This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National Standards for History:

Era 6: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)--
Standard 1: How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people.
Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)--
Standard 4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties.
Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)--
Standard 2: Economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States.

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