Mr. Henry’s Social Studies 7 Class, 2012 - 2013

1. Mr. Henry’s Social Studies 7 Class, 2012 - 2013 United States History, 1865 to the Present

2. The Jaguar TeamThe Jaguar Core includes the following teachers: Social Studies 7: Mr. Henry & Ms. ThompsonEnglish 7: Ms. Solheim & Ms. TrojnarScience 7: Ms. Abrams & Ms. Gay, Math 7:Ms. Reyes & Ms. Parker The Jaguar Team

3. Mr. Adam Patrick Henry Graduate of Virginia Tech, Class of 1996 B.A. in History and Education Master’s Degree in History from Old Dominion University, 2007 15th year with the Virginia Beach City Public Schools – seven at Larkspur Middle and eight here at Princess Anne Middle.

4. Jaguar Policies and Procedures During Core Plus today, we will be reviewing some of the procedures and guidelines you will need to know about in order to be successful! Remember, our goal is to create and maintain and excellent learning environment, and to support one another’s efforts to achieve. We want to create a culture that loves learning and a climate where we are free to take risks!

5. Mr. Henry’s Contact Information Home Phone: (757) 630-0468 School Phone: (757) 648-4950, extension 62080 E-mail: adhenry@vbschools.com (This is the preferred method of contact! I’ll check my e-mail daily – and frequently.) If you leave a message for me through the school, I probably will not hear the message or respond to it in a timely manner. You should either e-mail me, or (in case of an emergency!) call me.

6. United States History, 1865 – the Present The seventh grade History curriculum picks up where the sixth graders left off – with the Civil War and Reconstruction. Our class will span US History from 1865 to the present day, incorporating elements of geography, economics, and political science along the way. Historical methods will be emphasized during the year as well – meaning that students will be engaged in the “stuff” of history – research, discourse, debate, writing, and peer review!

7. Unit One: Reuniting the Nation In the late 1800s, a diverse group of Americans settled in the West. Both conflict and cooperation characterized the Frontier.

8. Unit Two: Getting Down to Business While the great industrialist of the late 1800s gained wealth and influence, labor unions formed to demand and end to child labor, higher wages, safer working conditions, and the 8-hour day.

9. Unit Three: A Nation Transformed Immigration, urbanization, and the origins of progressive reform in the USA.

10. Unit Four: Competition and Conflict Yellow Journalism The Spanish-American War, imperialism in the Pacific, policies toward Latin America, and the emergence of the United States as a world power are chronicled in the unit.

11. Unit Five: Progressive Reforms Prohibition may not have lasted, but the woman’s suffrage movement did. The expansion of democracy – through both local and national movements (17th Amendment, 19th Amendment) is featured in this unit, as are social and economic reforms (child labor laws, consumer safety, income tax reform, and the “trustbusting” efforts of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.)

12. Unit Six: World War I The United States’ involvement in the “Great War” was brief, but decisive. President Woodrow Wilson’s failed effort to craft a lasting peace in the aftermath of the war is as much a theme to this unit as the participation of the “doughboy” Americans. The failure to resolve Europe’s underlying economic and political problems, unfortunately, played a large part in engendering conflict 20 years later.

13. Unit Seven: America Goes from Boom … Liberated women of the 1920s (flappers!), Henry Ford, the “Tin Lizzy,” and prosperity characterized the “Jazz Age.” Literary figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and the Harlem Renaissance-inspired Langston Hughes all found their uniquely American voices during this period as well.

14. Unit Seven: …to Bust! The Great Depression and FDR’s efforts to end the economic catastrophe continue to shape political discourse in the United States.

15. Unit Eight: World War II

16. Victory in Europe and the Pacific

17. Unit Nine: Transitions in Pursuit of Peace The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union generated a nuclear arms race which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Anxiety and concern were constant. But the war never came; and the USSR collapse of old age in the early 1990s.

18. Unit Ten: Turmoil at Home and Abroad The Civil Rights Movement, the woman’s movement, and the social protest generated on college camps across America during the 1960s (and throughout the Vietnam War Era) energized and revolutionized society during the late 20th Century. But they caused turmoil and conflict as well.

19. Unit Eleven: Globalization and Interdependence Where are we, now? How will our children reinvent America in the 21st Century?

20. Mr. Henry’s Wikispace www.pams-henry.wikispaces.com During the course of the school year, you can expect to find classwork activities, homework, make-up assignments, review guides, and materials to review in preparation for the Virginia SOL Test.

21. This is what you can expect… Put this sheet in your folder of papers, have your parents sign the sheet, and return it to school tomorrow! THANK YOU! Have your parents find the Course Expectations Sheet on the www.PAMS-Henry.wikispaces.com website and sent an e-mail acknowledging they have read the sheet to me at adhenry@vbschool.com.