Newnan High School
History and Social Studies Department

 

Mrs. Connie Clifton

(This page includes staff biography, schedule and syllabus for the classes that they are presently teaching.)


Attended the University of Georgia, receiving a B.S. and M.Ed in Social Science Education.  

Has been a teacher for 29 years, 24 of those years in Coweta County.

In this county, Mrs. Clifton has taught at O.P. Evans Middle and Madras Middle.

Has 3 children- Candice, Lauren and Natalie and two grandaughters.

Presently teaching U.S. History.

Enjoys reading and travel.

 

 

Schedule 2009-2010

First Term:

First Block- U.S. History

Second Block- Plan

Third Block- U.S. History

Fourth Block-  U.S. History-Advanced

 

 

Second Term

First Block- U.S. History-Advanced

Second Block- Plan 

 Third Block- U.S. History

   Fourth Block- U.S. History

 

 

 

 

Syllabus- U.S. History

 

Why We Study History:

The past has shaped our lives.  Learning about our history helps us to understand present day events.  It helps us to understand how and why laws were developed and why we have certain traditions.  Studying history helps us to think for ourselves.  It helps us to appreciate those who came before us and gives us role models and heroes.  The study of history helps us to appreciate future possibilities.


Class Expectations and Rules:

Your textbook and notebooks are needed in class every day.

Be on time and seated in your assigned seat when the bell begins to ring.

Respect yourself and others.

Do your own work.

Use class time effectively.

 

Materials Needed:

notebook/ paper

pencils and blue or black ink pens – never red or any color other than blue or black.

highlighters

colored pencils

 

School Nurse:

The nurse is here to dispense medication sent from home and to handle medical emergencies. 

 

Academic Integrity:

A word about academic integrity:  The acquisition of knowledge requires a personal commitment of time and effort. Cheating includes borrowing other’s completed assignments, copying another student’s answers on homework, classwork, or tests, recycling work, and other forms of avoiding the process of learning.  Do you own assignments and do not allow others to copy your work.

 

Notebook:

A notebook is required for this class.

Keep everything in your notebook – class assignments, homework, quizzes, tests, maps 

Your notebook may be graded at the end of each nine weeks.

 

Make-up Work:

Any work missed due to an absence must be made up within 5 school days.  You may be given an alternate assignments or test, especially if the assignment or test has been returned to the other students.

 

Grading System:  

Tests: 45%                  Daily Work/ Quizzes 45%               Exam: 10%

*The state End of Course Test will count 15% of the average of the above.

 

Extra Credit:

NO EXTRA CREDIT will be given to individual students. Opportunities for extra credit, when given, will be provided for the class as a whole.

 

Course Outline:

 

Unit One focus: Colonial Era

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Movement

  • Colonization
  • Physical Migration (free and forced)
  • Importing of Intellectual Ideals

Social and Political Interactions

  • Colonial Governments
  • Social Mobility

Conflict and Compromise

  • European/Native American conflict
  • Colonial conflict with royal government
  • Conflict among colonists

Ideas and Beliefs

  • Great Awakening
  • Individualism

 

Unit Two focus: Revolution to Constitution

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Social and Political Interactions

  • Colonial response to actions of Parliament
  • Development of political parties

Conflict and Compromise

  • French and Indian War
  • American Revolution
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

Ideas and Beliefs

  • Social contract
  • Limited government
  • Individual and states’ rights
  • Key documents

Expansion

  • Ohio Valley, Proclamation of 1763

 

Unit Three focus: Creating a Nation

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Trade, Industry, and Technology

  • Transportation improvements
  • Early Industrial Revolution

Social and Political Interactions

  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Reform movements
  • Extension of suffrage

Conflict and Compromise

  • War of 1812

Expansion

  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Manifest Destiny national identity

 

Unit Four focus: A Divided Nation

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Social and Political Interactions

  • Abolitionist Movement
  • Reconstruction
  • Popular sovereignty

Conflict and Compromise

  • States’ Rights vs. Nationalism
  • Mexican-American War
  • Territorial Expansion and Slavery
  • Civil War

 

Unit Five focus: Expansion and Reform

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Movement

  • Westward migration
  • Immigration
  • Urbanization
  • Trade, Industry, and Technology
  • Industrialization

Social and Political Interactions

  • Reform Movements
  • Changing Role of Government

Conflict and Compromise

  • Native American conflicts

 

Unit Six focus: Becoming a  World Power

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Movement

  • Great Migration

Trade, Industry, and Technology

  • Growth of the media
  • Impact of the automobile
  • Social and Political Interactions
  • Constitutional amendments
  • Isolationism
  • New forms of entertainment

Conflict and Compromise

  • World War I

Expansion

  • Debate over American expansionism

 

Unit Seven focus: National Crisis

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Movement

  • Dust Bowl

Trade, Industry, and Technology

  • Causes and effects of the Great Depression
  • Demands on Industrial Productivity
  • War mobilization

 

 

Social and Political Interactions

  • Impact of the New Deal
  • Domestic Impact of World War II

Conflict and Compromise

  • World War II

 

Unit Eight focus: America as a  World Power

Social and Political Interactions

  • Domestic impact of the Cold War

Conflict and Compromise

  • Cold War
  • Regional Conflicts

Globalization

  • Post-War policies
  • International Relations

 

Unit Nine focus: Recreating a National Political Identity

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Conflict and Compromise

  • Conservatism vs. Liberalism

Globalization

  • U.S. role in world affairs
  • Terrorism

 

Unit Ten focus: Recreating a National Social Identity

Themes and Concepts/Topics:

Trade, Industry, and Technology

  • Impact of changes in the media
  • Changing demographics

Social and Political Interactions

  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Other reform movements
  • Judicial activism

 

 

 

 

 Contact Information
Telephone
770.254.2880
FAX
770.254.2797
Postal address
190 Lagrange Street, Newnan, Georgia 30263
Electronic mail
Department Chair: stephen.quesinberry@cowetaschools.net




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