History Repeats Itself in the Classroom, Too!

Gregory Gray taught Advanced Placement American Government, Political Economy, and World History in the Social Science Department at Irvine High School, Irvine, CA for 32 years. He currently supervises teacher candidates at Portland State University.Jennifer Donnelly has been teaching Social Science in the Irvine Unified School District for eight years. She teaches multiple courses each year including World History, AP European History, US History, AP US History, and Political Economy.

History Repeats Itself in the Classroom, Too!, provides a practical approach for satisfying the exigency of Common Core Standard implementation for social studies teachers, social studies departments and secondary school administrators. It is also an excellent source for teachers of all experience levels that are searching to augment their own content knowledge, to be aware of their students’ prior/future experiences in Social Studies and to collect rigorous writing and project based activities to be applied in the classroom. This book makes a cogent argument for the vertical alignment of social studies curriculum as an effective method for teachers to prepare students to handle readings of increasing difficulty and to improve the quality of citizenship education for all secondary students through the exploitation of content repetition and the scaffolding of content literacy skills.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1The Foundations of Democracy Chapter 2The Age of Exploration and DiscoveryChapter 3The Age of EnlightenmentChapter 4Political RevolutionsChapter 5The Industrial RevolutionChapter 6ImperialismChapter 7The First World WarChapter 8The Great DepressionChapter 9The Second World WarChapter 10The Cold War and DecolonizationChapter 11The Post-Cold War WorldChapter 12GlobalizationConclusionDeveloping a Vertical Alignment Plan to Implement the Common Core State Standards