Toolbook Set: American Foundations - Performance Education

Toolbook Set: American Foundations
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TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class

Purchase the American Foundations Toolbook Set now and the majority of your planning for the coming fall will be complete.

American Foundations Teacher Toolbook Set Includes:

Colonial America
Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class! Lectures with graphic organizers. Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons. Beacoups of mapping. Games galore, including “The Gong Show.” Group analysis and debates. Projects: Students teach the class. Homework on the internet. Heavy on terms: ). “The ABCs of Colonial America” (recall terms). “Can you talk like a colonial American?” (define terms). “Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.) Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!” Concludes with the mother of all tests: 516 questions! (Not only will you have more time, but your students will perform great on end of grade tests.) [Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]

Exploration: Why the Europeans colonized North America. Thumbnail profile of each explorer. (“Pizarro was not a nice guy.”) “If you were Henry Hudson, what would YOU have done?” The Columbian Exchange.
Colonization: Why the English founded colonies in the New World. Geography of colonial America. The Mayflower Compact. Life in colonial America. Games: “Name that colony!” “Name that region!” Which colonies were founded for religious freedom?
Key events: The 15 major events in colonial America.
Key people: Play “Name that founder!” Interpret famous quotations from John Winthrop’s “City upon a hill” to John Smith’s “He who does not work, shall not eat.”
Mercantilism: How England eclipsed Spain.
Representative government: Why representative government arose in the Thirteen Colonies. How religion contributed to the growth of representative government. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Great Awakening.

The American Revolution
Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class! Create a human timeline: A dozen years of grievances, 1763-1776. Lectures with graphic organizers. Interpret documents, quotations, speeches, and political cartoons. Map the war. Group analysis: What were the ideals embedded in the Declaration of Independence? (How slavery contradicted those ideals.) Problem-solving: What if your school were run the way the British ran the colonies? Predict: Why the British should have won the war. Role-playing: If you were General Washington, what would you have done? Write a persuasive essay: “I am George Washington . . .” Women of the Revolutionary War. Evaluate: What was our revolution’s impact on the rest of the world? Projects: Students teach the class. Homework on the internet. Games galore, including “The Gong Show.” Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the American Revolution” (recall terms). “Can you talk like a patriot?” (define terms). “Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.) Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!” Concludes with the mother of all tests: 559 questions. [Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]

The Causes
The Declaration of Independence
The Revolutionary War
The Leaders
The Results

The U.S. Constitution
Nobody does it better! Lectures with gobs of graphic organizers. Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons. Group analysis: What if your school were run like the Articles of Confederation? Debates. Games galore. Projects: Students teach the class. Homework on the internet. Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the U.S. Constitution” (recall terms). “Can you talk like a Founding Father?” (define terms). “Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.) Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!” Concludes with the mother of all tests: 551 questions. [Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]

Origins of the U.S. Constitution: Three documents. Two philosophers. What is the main purpose of government?
The Articles of Confederation: An experiment that failed.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Using worksheets, students become the actual delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Guys v. Gals: While the guys deliver clever speeches, the gals explain the bundle of compromises.
Ratification: From the Federalist Papers, interpret famous lines such as “If men were angels . . .” A debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
The Bill of Rights: Using political cartoons, examine your rights – yesterday and today.
Principles Beneath the Constitution: Play “Name that branch!” and “Separate those Powers!” To what extent did the Constitution live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence?

Regularly priced, these Teacher Toolbooks total almost $100!

Part No.	Title
BZ-4116	Colonial America
BZ-4117	The American Revolution - Sample
BZ-4118	The U.S. Constitution - Sample