U. S. History

Students will read campaign speeches given by Truman and Dewey in September, 1948, in Salt Lake City, and then compare the two by filling out a checklist of typical campaign speech characteristics.

Evaluate the constitutionality and fairness of controversial Presidential elections.

Students will create a Social Media Campaign for Richard Nixon in hopes of him winning the 1960 Election.

Students will get a chance to a hands-on project and will get to incorporate competition, propaganda, lobbying and victory or defeat.

Understanding the 1824 election

Using both primary and secondary sources, students will research and analyze the candidates and issues of the 1976, 1980, and 1984 campaigns.

This lesson will allow students to gain insights into the political customs and traditions associated with presidential elections.

This unit will use primary documents to provide practice in close reading, in identifying tone, and in applying tone recognition to an analysis of nuance in content.

Compare and contrast various types of camps in World War II.

Students will read a section from To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights and analyze the directions under the executive order and the interpretation by the committee of what they were supposed to accomplish.