• US II CP & Honors

    Specific Objectives:   Students will develop/refine their understanding of the following

     

    • The Progressive Era (1890 – 1917)

    • The spread of American Imperialism (1895 - 1917)

    • World War I (1914  - 1918)

    • The Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929)

    • The Great Depression (1929 – 1941)

    • World War II (1941 – 1945)

    • The Cold War Era (1949 – 1989)

    • Post Cold War and toward a New Millennium  (1989 - 2000)

    • The Challenges Ahead  (2000 – TODAY)

     

    Rogues & Reformers

    General Objectives:

    This is a semester survey course

    • It will focus on various people, famous and infamous, well known and should be known, and why their fame continues or increases into the 21st century.   

    • We will attempt to decipher the myth and folklore from reality and hope to discern why they are in our popular culture

    • We will also attempt to introduce you to some new individuals that are famous and infamous and clarify the reality from the myth

     

    Specific Objectives:   

    These are the Units and the individuals we will be discussing:

     

    The “Old West”

     

    William H. Bonney   a.k.a. “Billy the Kid”

    Wyatt Earp

    Jesse James

     

    "Bootleggers & Bank Robbers"

     

    Al Capone

    Eliot Ness

    Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow

    John Dillinger



    Literary Figures

     

    Vlad Tepis, a.k.a. “Dracula”

    William Wallace

    Elizabeth “Lizzie” Borden

     

    Twentieth Century

     

    Michael Collins

    Oskar Schindler

    Malcolm X

    Jimmy Hoffa