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HISTORY 10: MODERN WORLD HISTORY
Recognizing our increasingly complex and inequitable world, History 10 helps students
understand the evolution of the present by examining the past. Students investigate
signi昀椀cant historical questions about the roots and impact of colonialism and the
evolution of race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, crimes against humanity, and justice in
the 19th century and beyond. An important focus is comparing and contrasting events
across time and around the globe to identify patterns and study how different cultures
face these issues. The course utilizes student projects to develop the skills and mindsets
to understand, question, and challenge the modern legacies of these long-standing
con昀氀icts. Students explore texts such as Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel
Wilkerson, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi,
and This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore while creating op-eds, letters,
syllabi, graphic histories, galleries, mini-lectures, unit plan proposals, and other projects
of the public historian. Through these projects, students learn how they can affect positive
change in the world while developing thinking skills, skills of expression, and habits of
mind. Students focus on analysis of bias and perspective, development of nuanced thesis
statements, diverse evidentiary selection and cogent analysis, and historical narration
and contextualization. While the course covers certain critical historical moments
together, each student has the opportunity to carve out their niche of expertise,
pursuing questions and connections that they 昀椀nd important and relevant.
HISTORY
HISTORY 11: US HISTORY
How does a nation change over time? How did the people in the United States
create, alter, and dismantle systems, ideas, and practices throughout American
history? In this course, 11th grade historians discover and learn to evaluate the
complexity of the United States by tracing patterns of continuity and change
throughout its history. While we read a common text of These Truths: A History of
the United States by Jill Lepore, students build a thorough timeline of U.S. History
by layering on multiple perspectives through the exploration of non-dominant
narratives through supplemental texts embedded in our thematic units. Students
examine the development of American history through research and investigation
into the ways that the Constitution has been applied and interpreted, how the
American perception of international con昀氀ict has changed, how communities have
advocated for rights, and how original systems that were created have persisted
and shifted as the conditions and context of America have changed over time.
Students ultimately put their developed skills and historical context to work in
the second semester as each chooses a specialized topic related to U.S. history,
conducts original historical research, and crafts a thesis-driven term paper.
