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Why I didn’t bring my book to class.

by Michelle Priddy

  I have to walk to school in the morning and as I was walking, this huge spaceship beamed me up out of nowhere! So then, this alien guy asked me to bring him to his leader and I was like "Bring me to your leader first." He agreed and I met his leader and his leader was like "to save our planet we need your history book." This was horrible. I could not give them my book, because if I did, I knew Mr. Gallagher would be so mad at me - so I ran away. I was running through the spaceship when a swarm of evil monkeys attacked me with their bananas. I felt defeated and tired and I could not fight them off. But I had to for the approval of Mr. Gallagher.  So in the midst of the attack I pulled out my secret weapon. It was a rubber hammer. I fought them all off. I had won. Then I ran into all the aliens chatting it up in their dining room. They spotted my history book and immediately pulled out their Japanese fighting swords. There were so many that I gave up the book and ran for my life. Then they congratulated me with a huge carnival with clowns and everything. I was their hero. Their planet was saved.  I got a statue of me put right in the center of their city. That is why I do not have my book today. Next time I will try and be more careful and not get abducted, by aliens. Ok - thanks - bye.

Grade 10 U.S. History

Unit One: Exploration

§          Native Peoples (by region—including South American civilizations)

§          Commercial Revolution

§          Spanish, French, British motives, exploration and colonization

Unit Two: The 13 Colonies

§          Jamestown and Plymouth

§          Emergence of the American Identity

§          Salutary Neglect

§          Slavery and Indentured Servitude

 

Unit Three: The Road to the Revolution, French and Indian War

§          Causes and effects of the French and Indian War

§          End of salutary neglect

§          Taxes and acts

§          American response: Thomas Paine, Committees of Correspondence

§          Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party

Unit Four: American Revolution, Declaration of Independence

§          European Inspiration for the Declaration of Independence, motives

§          Major leaders and battles of the Revolution

§          Major strengths and weaknesses

§          Treaty of Paris of 1783

 

Unit Five: The Formation and Framework of American Democracy

§          Articles of Confederation

§          Constitution and Constitutional Convention and Compromises

§          Federalists, Anti-Federalists and the Bill of Rights

§          Massachusetts influence

 

Unit Six: Launching a New Nation

§          Washington: Rebellions, Neutrality, shaping the Presidency and the Cabinet

§          Adams: Foreign Affairs Controversies and Supreme Court

§          Jefferson: Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo

§          Madison: War of 1812

§          John Marshall's Supreme Court cases

 

Unit Seven: The Age of Jackson

§          Indian Removal and Indian Policy

§          Conflicts with the Banks and the Supreme Court

§          Establishment of "Democracy of the Common Man"

§          The Origins of Sectionalism

 

 Unit Eight: Social Movements in American Society

§          Industrial Revolution and Immigration

§          Early Feminism

§          Abolitionism

§          American Religions

§          School and Prison Reform

§          Early American Literary Movements

 

Unit Nine: Manifest Destiny

§          America's changing geography

§          Marginalization of Native Americans

§          "California here we come!"

§          Conflict with Mexico

Unit Ten: A Dividing Union / Sectionalism

§          Attempts at Reconciling Sectional Differences

§          Escalation to Violence

§          Abolitionism

 §         The Birth of the Republican Party and the Lincoln/Douglas debates

 

Unit Eleven: The Civil War

§          Major Battles

§          Strengths and Weaknesses of the North and South

§          Major Leaders

§          Emancipation Proclamation

§          Legacy of the Civil War

 

 Unit Twelve: Reconstruction

§          Three Phases of Reconstruction

§          Impeachment of Johnson

§          Emergence of the Jim Crow South

§          Changes in the Southern Economy