In this lesson, students will learn the difference between temperance and intemperance. Additionally, students will complete a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting societal views of temperance and Intemperance. Students will write a well constructed paragraph describing the origins, nature, and impact of the Temperance movement in 19th century America.

In this lesson, students will identify important information from a variety of document types relating to the United States' participation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Secondly, students will focus on sequencing and rating the importance and/or usefulness of the documents to the overall theme. Finally, students will work in a small group setting to create a proposal for Woodrow Wilson as to what should be done with Alsace-Lorraine. The final objective allows students to compare their proposal to the actual Treaty of Versailles.

In this lesson, students will identify the colonists' grievances and concerns for unfair treatment by the British King and Parliament and examine the purpose of the Declaration of Independence as identified in the document. Students will interpret grievances and concerns stated in the Declaration of Independence and then design a poster that will describe each part of the Declaration of Independence.

In this lesson, students will develop skills for historical and geographical analysis, with regard to Virginia's central role in the Civil War, including the ability to: a) identify and interpret primary and secondary sources to understand events in history; b) determine cause and effect relationships; d) draw conclusions and make generalizations; f) sequence events in Virginia history; g) interpret ideas and event from different historical perspectives; h) evaluate and discuss issues orally and in writing; i) analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events.

In this unit, students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812, the significance of the Battle of New Orleans and other major battles, and how the war helped shape American nationalism. Students will demonstrate their learning by correctly analyzing a poem, three songs, two speeches, three photographs/political cartoons, completing a Venn diagram that compares two battles, and by completing a worksheet. Finally, they will construct a drawing with dialogue or a political cartoon that addresses at least one aspect about the legacy of the war.

In this lesson, students will identify and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding of events and life in United States history to 1877. Students will learn about the problems that were created by the lack of a common currency under the Articles of Confederation and draw conclusions about weaknesses formed by other facets of government under the Articles of Confederation. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the challenges faced by the new nation by identifying the weaknesses of the government established by the Articles of Confederation.

In this lesson, students will learn to recognize different types of prejudice. Additionally, given four primary source documents, a capture sheet, and a survey about immigrants, students will accurately analyze the similarities between views on the Chinese, Irish and Latino immigrants using political cartoons and provide oral and written evidence of their findings.

In this lesson, students will examine Sarah Josepha Buell Hale's contribution to the invention of Thanksgiving, in order to examine the social, moral and ethical virtues middle class Americans advanced during the Jacksonian era. The students will analyze primary sources to examine S.J.B.H., as a social reformer during the Second Great Awakening, contribution to the invention of Thanksgiving in order to critique social, moral, and ethical virtues middle class Americans advanced during the Jacksonian era. Students will respond to a DBQ writing prompt to demonstrate understanding and analysis of how differences in the goals of national holidays affected political conscientiousness in the building of nationalism. Students will also design a classroom exhibit, like a museum room, for fun, using a shutterfold (foldable) on social reform integrating the letters written by S.J.B.H.