Queer, Colorful, Feminist, Immigrant History of the United States (Part 1)

PART 1 of 2: This U.S. history class focuses on primary sources and personalities who shaped the United States, with an emphasis on women, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color.

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Let's decolonize U.S. history together

When I started homeschooling, I couldn’t find U.S. history curriculum that told the stories I wanted my kids to hear—stories that weren’t the whitewashed stories of American mythology but the stories of people (men, women, and nonbinary) who made space for themselves on the margins of history. Some of their stories are happy, some are sad, most are both, but these are the people I wanted my high schooler to get to know during our U.S. history studies. Since that curriculum didn’t exist, I made it!

This self-paced U.S. History class includes 11 lessons, a midterm exam, and a final exam, and is designed to be taken over one semester — though you could certainly stretch it to a full year if you got excited about digging deeper.

Recommended credits: 0.5

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Course curriculum

1. Getting Started/How to Use This Platform
2. REQUIRED MATERIALS
3. Class Description
4. A Note About Grades and Grading Your Work
1. Making Your Mindmap
1. Introduction to U.S. History: A Note on Focus, Bias, and Intention
2. Tips for Reading Primary Sources
3. LECTURE: U.S. History to 1900 (Part 1)
4. LECTURE: U.S. History to 1900 (Part 2)
5. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: Pilgrim Mythology
3. READING: 3A Tisquantum and the European Invasion
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: Shut Up, Cotton Mather
3. READING: 4A Tituba and the Salem Witch Trials
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: The Big Slavery Problem
3. READING: 5A Oney Judge and the Problem of Slavery
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: The Louisiana Purchase
3. READING: 6A Sacagawea and the Louisiana Purchase
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. A Note about Midterms (and Tips for Grading Yours)
2. EXAM: Midterm
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: The Dark Side of the California Gold Rush
3. READING: 7A Josefa Segovia and the California Gold Rush
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. ASSIGNMENT: DBQ Essay
2. Tips for Writing Your DBQ Essay
3. Grading Your DBQ Essay
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: Black Americans and the War About Slavery
3. READING: 9A Harriet Tubman and the War Over Slavery
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: The Short, Sad History of Reconstruction
3. READING: 10A Charlotte Forten and Reconstruction
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: The Transcontinental Railroad
3. READING: 11A Chinese-Americans and the Railroad
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. FINAL EXAM: Timeline Cards
1. How Do You Know How You Did in This Class?

About this course

$10.00 first payment, $20.00 / week onwards
63 lessons
4 hours of video content

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