Pioneering West, Innovating East and Video Lessons: Regents US His.
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Pioneering West, Innovating East and
Video Lessons: Regents US His. Short-Essays
In the American west in the 19th century, a variety of ethnic groups are to found in the newly expanded United States. Shortly after the Mexican war, the US needed to establish protocol to assimilate former Mexican citizens in its new territories. Later, Chinese immigrants were employed building railroads, bringing a very different culture with them.
Meanwhile, back east, industrialization was in full swing. Inventions and production methods changed society in far reaching ways.
Short essay task in the format of the New York State Regents examination in US History and Government.
The updated New York State Regents examination in United States History and Government, part II, is a short essay task designed to measure students’ ability to work with historic documents. It is a mature version of the “CRQ” found on the tenth grade Global Regents. Students are called upon to understand text, engage it with historical context, and assess a text’s reliability.
If you are afraid to assign your students this as a test because they are not likely to do well at first and don’t want to bother their GPA, I recommend using standardized scoring. You can use the z-score calculator here at Innovation Assessments. Use 78 as your standard mean and 14.8 as your standardized standard deviation. Read more about standardized scoring here and where I got those figures. The beauty of this system is you can apply this to their grades every month and as the class improves, as the class average approaches the standardized mean (78 in this case), then the algorithm affects their scores less and less.
Product includes:
Set 1, 2 documents
Set 2, 2 documents
Scoring rubric
Passcodes to video lessons students can use to prepare the task.
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Documents:
Excerpt from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Food and Supplies at a Chinese Railroad Store,1873
Thomas Edison's Electric Lamp Patent Drawing
Image of assembly line, early 20th century
Passcode Lessons:
Native Americans Struggle to Survive
Populating the West
Native Americans, late 19th Cen. (14m)
19th Century Economics, Part 1
19th Century Economics, Part 2
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