Curriculum Map

 Month:

Six Weeks April-May

Unit: 

 American Homefront During WWII

Essential Questions: 

What is historical inquiry and how can we use it to learn about the past?

Were Japanese Internment Camps during WWII a justified means of protecting the Nation, or were they an unnecessary violation of civil and human rights?

Content: 

 Vocabulary:

• Historical Inquiry
• Primary Source
• Secondary Source
• Reliability
• Validity
• Perspective
• Internment Camp
• Civil Rights
• Human Rights

Scope:

• The components of historical inquiry
• Basic background on the events that led to WWII
• The attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii
• Anti-Japanese propaganda and sentiments following Pearl Harbor and after the US entered WWII
• The creation of Japanese Internment Camps
• Life in Japanese Internmennt Camps
• Connecting/comparing the response to Pearl Harbor and the response to 9/11

Skills:

• Students will be able to use a variety of sources to study historic and contemporary events in the United States.
• Students will be able to investigate different interpretations of events and identify circumstances of time and place that influence the author's perspective.
• students will be able to undertake case studies to research violations of basic civil and human rights.
• Students will be able to explain the significance of historical evidence and weigh the importance, reliability and validity of that evidence.

Assessment: 

Formative:

• Pre Test
• Journal Entries
• Exit Tickets
• Quiz
• Paricipation in Group Discussions
• Trial- Culminating Group Project

Summative:

• Post Test
• Data Based Question- Essay

 Allignment:

NYS Social Studies Standard 1: History of the United States and New York

Intermediate

1.2- Important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs and traditions from New York State and United States history illustrate the connections and interactions of people and events across time and from a variety of perspectives.

1.4 The skills of historical analysis include the ability to: explain the significance of historical evidence; weight the importance, reliability and validity of evidence; understand the concept of multiple causation; understand the importance of changing and competing interpretations of different historical developments.

Lesson Plans: 

• Pre Test

• Historical Inquiry- Setting the Stage

• Conflicts Abroad

• Mini Lesson 1: Types of Sources
• Pearl Harbor
• Mini Lesson 2: Reliability and Validity
• America Enters the War
• Fear Escalates
• Internment Camps on American Soil
• Mini Lesson 3: Perspective
• Quiz
• Life in an American Internment Camp
• All for One
• Making Connections to Contemporary Events
• Trial: Japanese Americans vs. Federal Government
• Post Test
• Data Based Question