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Cultivating America

Forgetting History?  Forget the Future.
Excuses for not Teaching History
History Mythbusting I
History Mythbusting II
History Mythbusting III
History Mythbusting IV
History Mythbusting V
History Disclaimer
The Marginalization of Social Studies
Why Do We Teach History?

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History is ugly.
​In particular, the founding centuries of the United States of America were pretty dirty:  they were times of filth and stink.  But the 17th and 18th centuries also provide us with the rich origin of our great nation.
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Things have not always been rosy for our citizens (for some even less rosy than others), and even our greatest leaders had their flaws.  That's what makes our study so important.
​We continue to strive for that goal:  "...a more perfect union..."
We the People of the United States,
in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty
to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution
​for the United States of America.
There is a line in the Preamble of the United States Constitution that mentions, "...in order to form a more perfect union..."  It tells us that we do not consider our nation perfect, but that we strive to understand things better to make things better.  Understanding the goals helps us identify our mistakes and our flaws so we can correct them and fix them.
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A Somewhat Chronological Journey through the School Year

American History Collection Complete

​AUGUST and SEPTEMBER
Colonial Pangs
Dig It!
​Eagles
​Discovery?
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So You Want to Settle a
​     New Colony
​The Lost Colony
Jamestown Colonization 
​     (1607)
The Starving Time

Burial Dig​​
Matoaka
1619
Plimouth (1620)
​The Champs
Meanwhile at the Mississippi
     (17th Century)

Primary Sources Gallery
     Walk: 
Colonial America*
​Avast! (1717)
It's a Witch Hunt (1730)
Introducing George Washington
​Meet G Dub
Boy George
Rules of Civility
The Survey Says...
The George Washington 
​     Masonic Cave
 (1748)
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OCTOBER
French and Indian War
Material Culture:  Artifact Walk*
The Neutral Zone
Prologue to the Revolution (1754)
​Join or Die​
Hail, Columbia
Meanwhile at the Mississippi (18th Century)
​​Braddock's March (Summer 1755)
​Daniel Boone was a Man
Siege, Surrender, and Massacre (August 1757)
Fort "Carry On" (July 1758)
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Trader Faire​
George Washington's Mount Vernon
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Chocolate in George Washington's America
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NOVEMBER
Seeds of Revolution
Primary Sources Gallery Walk:  Founders*
Here's Johnny (and Abigail)
​A Massacre in Boston (March 5, 1770)
​The Liberty Tree
​NE14T? (December 16, 1773)
That's Intolerable (and Coercive)!  (1774)
The First Continental Congress (September 5, 1774)
"Liberty or Death" (March 23, 1775)
The Dunmore Proclamation
Man with Four Jobs (April 18, 1775)
The Shot Heard 'Round the World (April 19, 1775)
​Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (May 10, 1775)
​The Second Continental Congress (May 10, 1775)
An American Thanksgiving
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DECEMBER
Revolution:  Act One
Primary Sources Gallery Walk:  American Revolution*
​​​Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775)
​Knox, Knox
Postmaster General (July 1775)
​A Message from the King (August 23, 1775)
Paine's the Name (January 10, 1776)
Oh, Betsy!
​Introducing Tom
Monticello
The Turtle
We Hold These Truths... (July 4, 1776)
Let Freedom Ring
JANUARY
Revolution:  Act Two
New York, New York (September 20, 1776)
"One Life to Lose" (September 22, 1776)

Spitfire (October 11-13, 1776)
M & M (November 16, 1776)
​Crisis (December 1776)

Delaware Crossing  (December 25, 1776)​
An American in Paris (December 1776)
Liberty Enlightening the World
From 711 to 007
Sybil Ludington (April 26, 1777)
America's Favorite Fighting Frenchman
​Who Were the Hessians?​ (October 1776 and August 1777)
Valley Forge (December 19, 1777)
Allies at Last (February 1778)
Articles of Confederation (June 1778)
New Frontier (October 1779)
​"I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight." (September 23, 1779)
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FEBRUARY
Revolution:  Act Three
​​Unsung Heroes in the South and in the West (March 1780)
Benj. Franklin, Jack of All Trades
I'm Rubber; You're Glue (June 1780)
Oh, What a Tangled Web... (July 1780)
​My Dearest (Valentines Day)
AKA Deborah Sampson (July 1781)
​What Does the Fox Say?​
The Invisible Man (September 1781)
The World Turned Upside Down (October 19, 1781)
So Long, Farewell (May 22, 1782)
​Hail to the Chief (Presidents Day)
Mumbet
Father of American Archaeology (1783)
Shays' Rebellion (August 1786)
Philadelphia Convention (May 1787)
Constitutionally Speaking (1789)
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MARCH
Farewell, Old Friends
George Washington's Farewell Address (September 19, 1796)
Sweet Lips, Venus, Drunkard, and Truelove
​The Death of George Washington (December 14, 1799)
Good Doctor Rush
An Obelisk in DC
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1800)
The End of an Era (July 11, 1804)
Material Culture:  Artifact Walk*
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​​APRIL and MAY
On the Grow
The Louisiana Purchase
     (July 4, 1803)
Corps of Discovery
​Go West!
Compromise (August 10, 1821)
​A Trail of Tears (1831)
Scott Free? (1847)
​Going Underground
​Lincoln (1860)
​Uncivilly Civil (April 12, 1861)
​World's Fair 2.0 (1904)
The Nation's Tallest Monument

Material Culture:  Show-and-
     Tell 
Artifact Walks*
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*Items in blue represent days in which students will conduct walk-through evaluations of teacher-provided historical documents, maps, political cartoons, and artifacts.  Students will be asked to interpret, and evaluate these items using their skills in observation and inference based upon evidence and prior knowledge.  Classwide conversations will ensue.

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