Mr. Cornet / Social Studies Curriculum

Mr.Cornet’s Social Studies Curriculum

What follows are a collection of assignments and readings which are commonly (but not necessarily always) used in Mr.Cornet’s courses. They are offered here for students who may have been absent and who need to get a copy of them.   By offering them online, it is hoped that . . .

All students will have fewer missing/late assignments.

These will support the learning of students with special needs and English Language Learners by making available necessary assignments and notes to their programs support staff and parents.

Advanced Placement students (both in my course and elsewhere in the nation) will have more material to review in preparation for their exam.

Educators around the world may find these of value to their own instructional practices.

Let me stress that these certainly do not include everything we do (absent below, for instance, would be most lecture notes and film, among other things). Rather, the curriculum which follows represent a collection of assignments commonly utilized in class and offer a glimpse of the type of material and learnings the course covers. (I made an effort to get the USH and Gov courses up since they are my largest populations; I will post more for the other classes when time allows). Questions may be directed to the instructor at John.Cornet@Phoenix.K12.Or.Us

United States History

What follows are assignments which are commonly used in the United States History course. Additional resources applicable to this topic may be found in the Government course listed below.
Shorthand Key---> "B" Brainstorm, "R" reading, "M" Map, "I" Inquiry, "C" Modeled after Common Core, "Ch" Chart, "*" indicates that questions accompany the assignment.
    CLICK HERE Course Syllibus and Curriculum
    CLICK HERE     R,I*      ---    Historical Thinking Skills
    CLICK HERE    B         1600-1700     Motivations Underlying Colonial Settlement
    CLICK HERE B       1600-1753     English-Influenced Tensions During the Colonial Era
    CLICK HERE B*       1600-1764     Early Colonial Settlement and Development of Regional Culture
    CLICK HERE    B*       1600-1970     American Religious Movements
    CLICK HERE   I*        1692            Salem Witch Trials
    CLICK HERE    B*       1760-1986     Brief Overview of Immigration in America
    CLICK HERE B*       1763-1775     Accumulation of Grievances
    CLICK HERE I,C*    1777-1780     Benedict Arnold
    CLICK HERE C     1782-1783     Treaty of 1783
    CLICK HERE B*     1781-1783     Forming a New Government
    CLICK HERE Ch       1786-1791     Comparions of Federalist and AntiFederalist Views
    CLICK HERE    B         1800-1809     Power Struggles inthe Jeffersonian Era
    CLICK HERE B         1800-1860     Westward Expansion and Manifest Destany
    CLICK HERE B*       1801-1837     Contrasting Principles of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy
    CLICK HERE    B         1816-1824     Era of Good Feelings
    CLICK HERE    B*       1824-1840     Jacksonian Era
    CLICK HERE B*       1787-1860     Antebellum Era (Increasing Sectional Differences)
    CLICK HERE R*       1820-1861     Slavery Review
    CLICK HERE B         1848-1920     Suffragette Movement
    CLICK HERE    C         1861-1865     Civil War
    CLICK HERE B,R* 1865-1877     Reconstruction Era
    CLICK HERE B         1877-1893     Gilded Age
    CLICK HERE    B,R*    1894-1912     Progressive Era
    CLICK HERE B         1896-1954     Early Foundation of the Civil Rights Era
    CLICK HERE notes 1914            Causes of World War I
    CLICK HERE B*       1914-1918     Public Opinion During World War I
    CLICK HERE    B*    1914-1918     Home Front During World War I
    CLICK HERE B*       1917-1945     Cold War I: Origins of the Cold War (a political science interpretation)
    CLICK HERE B*       1919-1929     Roaring Twenties
    CLICK HERE    R*       1919-1929     Flappers
    CLICK HERE    R*       1919-1933     Prohibition
    CLICK HERE notes 1927-1929     Economic Conditions Preceding the Stock Market Crash
    CLICK HERE B         1929-1933     Hoover Administration
    CLICK HERE C         1929-1937     Great Depression
    CLICK HERE    B*       1932-1939     New Deal and Pre-War F.D.Roosevelt
    CLICK HERE B*       1941-1945     Home Front During World War II
    CLICK HERE R*       1941-1945     Japanese-American Internment Camps
    CLICK HERE outline1939-1945     Key Learning Questions about the Shoah/Holocaust
    CLICK HERE    R*       1945          Opinions Regarding the Use of the Atomic Bombs
    CLICK HERE B*       1950-1959     The 1950s
    CLICK HERE R*       1950-1970     Cesar Chavez
    CLICK HERE     B*       1945-1989     Cold War II: The Cold War Entrenched
    CLICK HERE    B         1945-1989     Cold War III: Cold War Policies and Theory
    CLICK HERE     B*       1954-1969     Civil Rights Movement
    CLICK HERE R*       1958-1968     Comparison of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X
    CLICK HERE    B*       1963-1971     Escalation of Anti-War Sentiment
    CLICK HERE    B*       1964-1972     Twenty-somethings in the 1960s
    CLICK HERE B*       1967    "I am Joaquin" poem by Rodolfo Gonzales
    CLICK HERE    R,I*     1969              Nixon and the Apollo 11 Space Crisis
    CLICK HERE B*       1970-1979     The 1970s
    CLICK HERE R,I*     1973-1975     Nixon, Watergate and Impeachment
Recommendations for students who ask for independant resources
    CLICK HERE    Book/Film Recommendations - The Founding Era
    CLICK HERE Book/Film Recommendations - Antebellem, Civil War and Reconstruction
    CLICK HERE Book/Film Recommendations - Roaring 20s and Economic Depression
    CLICK HERE    Book/Film Recommendations - World War II and the Shoah
    CLICK HERE Book/Film Recommendations - Civil Rights, Vietnam and 60s-era Political Change
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AP American Government

Other resources relevent to this course can be found in the United States History and Honors International Studies course materials
    CLICK HERE Course Syllabus and Curriculum
A P   E x a m i n a t i o n   P r e p
    CLICK HERE AP Multipe Choice Questions x493
    CLICK HERE    AP Free Response Questions x76
    CLICK HERE Textbook Outlining Assigment (dates are for the 2017-2018 school year)
    Q u i c k   L o o k u p   N o t e s
    CLICK HERE    Nationalization of the Bill of Rights
    CLICK HERE   Checks and Balances
    CLICK HERE    Federalism
    CLICK HERE Tactics which Influence the Crafting and Deliberations of Legislation
    CLICK HERE Introduction to American Government
    CLICK HERE Overview of the US Constitution and Amendments
    CLICK HERE Overview of the Plan of Union, Articles and Constitution
    CLICK HERE Departments within each Branch of Government
    CLICK HERE    Meeting Job Expectations? The Number of Working Days, by Branch
    CLICK HERE Electoral College
    CLICK HERE Executive Order
    CLICK HERE    Midnight Regulations
    CLICK HERE    Tough on Crime? Presidential Pardons by Administratiuon
    CLICK HERE Recess Appointments
    CLICK HERE Order of Presidential Succession
    CLICK HERE Distinguishing Between a Democracy and a Republic
    CLICK HERE    Pluralism
    CLICK HERE Criticism of the Supreme Court
    CLICK HERE Overview of the Entire Supreme Court Process
    CLICK HERE Judicial Review
    CLICK HERE Admission of New States into the Union
    CLICK HERE Amending the Constitution
    CLICK HERE Congressional Disciplining of the President
    CLICK HERE    How a Bill Becomes a Law
    CLICK HERE Social Welfare Policy
    CLICK HERE The Legislative Branch - A Broad Overview
    CLICK HERE    Lobbying in the United States
    CLICK HERE    Secrecy in Government
    CLICK HERE Assessing Media Bias
    CLICK HERE Media and Cyberpolitics
    CLICK HERE    Sources of Distrust in the American Political System
    F o u n d a t i o n   D o c u m e n t s
    CLICK HERE    Brief Comparative Synopsis of the Foundation Documents
    CLICK HERE Declaration of Independence   (1776)
    CLICK HERE Articles of Confederation   (1777)
    CLICK HERE    Federalist nr.10   (1787)
    CLICK HERE Brutus nr.I   (1788)
    CLICK HERE Federalist nr.51 (1788)
    CLICK HERE Federalist nr.70 (1788)
    CLICK HERE    Federalist nr.78   (1788)
    CLICK HERE Constitution of the United States (1789)
    CLICK HERE Letter from a Birmingham Jail   (1963)
    R e q u i r e d   S u p r e m e C o ur t   C a s e s
    CLICK HERE Brief Comparative Synopsis of Supreme Court cases
    CLICK HERE Marbury v Madison   (1803)
    CLICK HERE McCullough v Maryland   (1819)
    CLICK HERE    Schenck v United States   (1919)
    CLICK HERE Brown v Board of Education (1954)
    CLICK HERE Baker v Carr   (1961)
    CLICK HERE    Engel v Vitale   (1962)
    CLICK HERE Gideon v Wainwright   (1963)
    CLICK HERE Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
    CLICK HERE New York Times v United States (1971)
    CLICK HERE    Wisconsin v Yoder (1972)
    CLICK HERE Roe v Wade   (1973)
    CLICK HERE Shaw v Reno (1993)
    CLICK HERE    United States v Lopez (1995)
    CLICK HERE    McDonald v Chicago   (2010)
    CLICK HERE Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (2010)
    O t h e r   T h i n g s . . .
    CLICK HERE Review (synthesis) - Foundations of American Democracy
    CLICK HERE    Review (synthesis) - Interactions Among Branches of Government
    CLICK HERE Review (synthesis) - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
    CLICK HERE Review (synthesis) - American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
    CLICK HERE    Review (synthesis) - Political Participation
    CLICK HERE Review (general info) - Constitutional Underpinnings
    CLICK HERE Review (general info) - Political Beliefs and Political Behaviors
    CLICK HERE Review (general info) - Interest Groups, Political Parties and Mass Media
    CLICK HERE Review (general info) - Congress and the Presidency
    CLICK HERE    Review (general info) - The Bureaucracy and the Judiciary
    CLICK HERE Review (general info) - Civil Liberities and Civil Rights
    CLICK HERE AP Textbook - American Government - Roots and Reform, 12th edition (2016)
    CLICK HERE     AP Textbook - American Government, Institutions and Politics, 11th edition (2008)
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    CLICK HERE Article - The Truth About Denial (Newsweek)
    CLICK HERE Article - The Day After Roe   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE    Article - Rhetorical Questions   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Article - Big Brother is Listening   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Article - Claiming Voting Fraud as a Political Strategy
    CLICK HERE Article - The Commandments: Constitution and its Worshippers   (New Yorker)
    CLICK HERE    A Sampling of Sources - Brief synopsis of many Supreme Court cases
    CLICK HERE A Sampling of Sources - The Second Amendment
    CLICK HERE A Sampling of Sources - The First Amendment / Separation of Church and State
    CLICK HERE    Chart - Campaign Inc. (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Activity - Government Fixes
    CLICK HERE Activity - Gerrymandering
    CLICK HERE Activity - Interpreting Political Cartoons
    CLICK HERE    Activity - Analyzing a Hypothetical Election
    CLICK HERE Activity - US Constitution article/section lookup
    CLICK HERE Activity - Liberal-Conservative Learning Spectrum
    CLICK HERE    A Primer on Reparations
    CLICK HERE Racial Justice / Understanding BLM Greviances

Honors International Studies

Some material relevent to this course appears in the United States History and American Govrnment curriculum.
    CLICK HERE    Course Syllabus and Curriculum
    CLICK HERE National Security
    CLICK HERE Generay Essay Prompts
    CLICK HERE Support for and Criticism of the United Nations
    CLICK HERE Why the United States Supports Israel
    CLICK HERE Geopolitical/Geostrategic Maps which offer a Snapshop of Issues
    CLICK HERE Globalization
    CLICK HERE     Reparations
    CLICK HERE     Failing Nation-States: Indicators of Instability   (Foreign Policy)
    CLICK HERE   Polarity of the World notes
    CLICK HERE    Article - Europe's Declining Birthrate (New York Times Magazine)
    CLICK HERE Article - First Law of Petropolitics (Foreign Affairs)
    CLICK HERE Article - Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Article - The Infiltrator / Double Blind   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE    Article - The Age of NonPolarity (Foreign Affairs)
    CLICK HERE     Article - Who Shot Mohammad al Dura? (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE    Article - How Arafat Destroyed Palestine (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Article - The Dark Art of Interrogation   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Activity - Globalization / Transnational Corporation Game
    CLICK HERE    Interview - Is International Law a threat to Democracy?
    CLICK HERE    Conclusions of Chapters 1 & 2 of 'Why Nations Go To War'
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Western Philosophy

    CLICK HERE    Course Syllabus and Curriculum
    CLICK HERE Les Miserables essay assignments
    CLICK HERE Les Miserables / Epomine
    CLICK HERE Les Miserables / Jean Valjean
    CLICK HERE    Star Trek / Enterprise
    CLICK HERE Star Trek / Measure of a Man
    CLICK HERE "Minority Report" film discussion questions
    CLICK HERE    Article - Is God An Accident?   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE   Article - Oh Gods!   (Atlantic Monthly
    CLICK HERE    Article - ET and God   (Atlantic Monthly)
    CLICK HERE Article - Thought Experiments (Scientific American)
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Psychology / Psychological Literature

CLICK HERE    Course Syllabus and Curriculum (Psychology)
    CLICK HERE Course Syllabus and Curriculum (Psychological Literature)
    CLICK HERE Disorder Gathering 34
    CLICK HERE Disorder Gathering 36
    CLICK HERE    Disorder Gathering 49
    CLICK HERE Answer Key for Disorder Gatherings
    CLICK HERE The Brain - Function, Structure, Anatomy, and Influence of Substances
CLICK HERE Revenge of the Introverts (Psychology Today)
    CLICK HERE    Defense Mechanisms
    CLICK HERE   "Aviator" film questions
    CLICK HERE    Precis Bell Activities *short
    CLICK HERE Precis Bell Activities *long
    CLICK HERE Precis Bell Activities *story/narritive
    CLICK HERE Article - Getting Out Alive   (Time)
    CLICK HERE Article - Depressing News about AntiDepressents (Newsweek), with questions HERE
    CLICK HERE Article - Mystery of the 18 Twitching Teenagers (New York Times Magazine)
    CLICK HERE    Article - Bipolar Puzzle (New York Times Magazine)
    CLICK HERE Article - Forgetting Faces (Scientific American), with questions HERE
    CLICK HERE     Article - It' All Done With Mirrors (Scientific American)
    CLICK HERE     Article - Selective Mutism
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CLICK HERE Report - Impact of Texting in Class
    CLICK HERE Review Resource - Crash Course Book, 2013
    CLICK HERE    Textbook

Other Classrom Documents

   CLICK HERE Classroom Rules and Expectations (short version)
   CLICK HERE Policy Pertaining to Plagiarism