Image Source - Abu Ghraib
1990s-2010s:
Modern America
Primary Skill
Change and Continuity
Compelling Question(s)
How have politicians and policies been influenced by
the wealthiest people in the United States?
How have these influences impacted the lives
of the majority of the people in the United States?
Modern America
Primary Skill
Change and Continuity
Compelling Question(s)
How have politicians and policies been influenced by
the wealthiest people in the United States?
How have these influences impacted the lives
of the majority of the people in the United States?
Essential Lessons
Modern American History
Essential Lessons will help you with specific information about the significant events of Modern American History.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
Growing Our Vocabulary
Directions: These words need to be added to your personal glossary with definitions.
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liberal
conservative deregulation supply-side economics |
impeachment
recession inflation terrorism |
embargo
globalization WMD - weapons of mass destruction |
Add words that you came across throughout these Essential Lessons that you learned and add them to your glossary.
Modern America
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Active Reading
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Pick Two:
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Newsela:
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Newsela:
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Newsela:
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Pick Two:
Choose Two Lessons from Below
These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.
Culture: Music, Food, Gender Roles, Arts, Propaganda, Culture Wars, Consumerism
MTV: Music Videos |
1990s Pop Culture |
1990s: Rise of the Simpsons! |
Columbine 1999:
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The 2000s:
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The 2000s:
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The 2000s:
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The 2010s:
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The 2010s:
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The 2010s:
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How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change |
Leading Cause of Death in the US for Children and Teens: Gun Violence |
Sciences: Medicine, Food, Energy
Computers and Internet in the 1990s |
GMOs:
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Energy Sources:
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Labor Fights
Unions Are Expanding Their Role to Survive in the 90's |
Change to Win
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Red for Ed
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Modern Presidents and Legacy
Bush (41)(Father):
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Clinton (42):
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Bush (43)(Son):
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Obama (44):
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Trump (45):
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Racial Justice
Documentary:
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MOVE Bombing
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Black Lives Matter Movement |
Arizona (State Forty-Eight) History
Arizona: Native Americans and the Casinos Fight (1990s) |
Arizona: Reservation town fighting ghosts from the past (2000s) |
Arizona: Heat Wave
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Environmental Movement
Our Climate Crisis:
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Access to Health Food, Clean Water, Air and Land |
Removing Racist Names & Recognizing Indigenous Names of Places |
Top Environmental Issues
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Restoration of Kissimmee River (Florida) |
Water in the West
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United Nations and Climate Change |
10 Ways to Confront the Climate Crisis without Losing Hope |
Major Supreme Court Decisions
The 1990s Law That Keeps People in Prison on Technicalities |
Bush v. Gore
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9 Supreme Court cases that shaped the 2010s |
Militarization of Policing
The Militarization of US Law Enforcement and Civilian Harm |
The 1033 Program |
Rough Justice:
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Immigrant and Immigration Justice
Post 9/11/2001:
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America and Immigrants |
From bad to "sheer inhumanity":
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Public Education
Commencement Speech:
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No Child Left Behind
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Content Warning: Gunfire on School Grounds in the United States |
America's Military in Other Countries
U.S.: 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law (2002) |
Abu Ghraib (2004): Legacy of Torture in the War on Terror |
Opinion:
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Government: Domestic Terrorism, Media and Politics
Extremism in America |
Explore Media Bias |
American Nationalist: Part 1
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Political Polarization |
Amendment 27:
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The real impact of Trumpism |