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This lesson will require students to examine the primary sources of personal letters and conduct biographical research on either President or first lady Truman. They will then use their information to determine the influence and relationship of the first lady and her presidential husband and examine her influence on the issues of the time.

Students will be tasked with researching, analyzing, and creating a paper over the influence of a First Lady of the United States.

This will introduce units on Modern Terrorism. It will also help increase their awareness, foster collaboration, and practice the skill of chronology.

Students will choose a presidential candidate and construct a campaign poster and a lapel campaign button in support of that candidate.

The student will be able to analyze and determine central themes in George Orwell’s Animal Farm as these themes relate to the novel’s role as an allegory of Communism in Russia during WWII.

Students will research the impact of World War II on Major League Baseball and create a trading card using a draw program.

This unit will engage the students in discussions, independent reflection with written summaries, research, and others to guide students to answer the question, was life during the fifties really nifty?

This lesson prepares students to use primary sources for research purposes. It provides students the opportunity to work on their analysis and research skills.

Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka

The students will read about events and people significant to the women's suffrage movement in the United States. They will review documents, photographs, poems and listen to music associated with the movement. They will compose a poster using four primary source documents.