The curriculum calendar is intended to inform instructors, students, and parents alike about the content and teaching strategy that will be utilized on a day by day in this unit on Imperialism & the Spanish-American War.
Lesson OneTopic: Driving Factors of Empires and Examples From History.
Objective: Students will be able to define and explain the four main driving factors of empires. Strategy: Lecture, Analyzing Text, and Writing Activity. |
Lesson TwoTopic: Vocabulary of the Age of Imperialism.
Objective: Students will be able to learn the key vocabulary terms associated with age of imperialism and are able to demonstrate their correct acquisition of the new vocabulary terms in a creative historical writing assignment. Strategy: Tea-Party Activity & Writing Activity. |
Lesson ThreeTopic: The White Man’s Burden- Poem and Societal Drive
Objective: Students will be able to engage in a class discussion of the racial/cultural superiority mindset of the western powers. Strategy: Read Aloud Activity, Line Placement Activity, and a Reflective Writing Activity about a time in the student’s lives when they discriminated against or mistreated for being themselves. |
Lesson FourTopic: Spanish-American War- The Cuban Chapter
Objective: Students will be able to articulate the naked aggression of the United States during the war for Cuba verbally and in writing. Strategy: Mini-Lecture, Graphic Text Examination/Read Aloud & Writing Activity. |
Lesson FiveTopic: America’s Road to Imperialism
Objective: Students will be able to articulate verbally and in writing the role the media played in fomenting the Spanish-American War. Strategy: Viewing The Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War, Note-Taking Graphic Organizer, and Writing Activity. |
Lesson SixTopic: Spanish-American War- The Philippines
Objective: Students will be able to explain how U.S. army began fighting the Filipino insurgents that they had ostensibly come to support and the war continues for the U.S. despite Spain’s abdicating control over the Philippines. Strategy: Mini- Lecture, Graphic Text Examination/Read Aloud & Writing Activity. |
Lesson SevenTopic: A Snap Shot in Time
Objective: Students will be able to examine a photographic primary source document and reenact the events portrayed in the image with their fellow students. Strategy: Kinesthetic Group Activity & Interior Monologue Writing Activity. |
Lesson EightTopic: Structured Five Paragraph Essay
Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate in writing what they have learned about empires as a form of government and their own opinion regarding empires as a desirable political structure or not in the form of a five paragraph essay. Strategy: Mini-Lecture & work time in class to seek help on and to finish a structured five paragraph essay. |