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Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0 Instructor's Manual

Ethical Issues in American History

Second Edition

David E. Harris, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Paul F. Dain

Publication Date: July 13, 2018

Pages: 224

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ISBN: 9780807777091
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Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0 Instructor's Manual 9780807777091
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Description+

The comprehensive Instructor’s Manual for Volume 1 and 2 of Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0: Ethical Issues in American History will help instructors use the student volumes in secondary school or college courses in United States history.

Student Volume 1 contains 20 episodes beginning with the Colonial Era (1607–1775) and ending with A House Divided (1850–1865). Student Volume 2 contains 19 episodes beginning with Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (1866–1890) and ending with Contemporary America (1990–2017).

The Instructor’s Manual includes:

  • The rationale and goals for teaching with Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0.
  • Guidance for selecting chapters and determining frequency of use.
  • Direction for leading classroom discussions of ethical issues.
  • Suggestions for assessment and grading.
  • Answers for the learning activities that follow each episode.

STUDENT VOLUMES—

Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 1: Ethical Issues in American History: 1607–1865 by David E. Harris, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, and Paul F. Dain

Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 2: Ethical Issues in American History: 1866 to the Present by David E. Harris, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, and Paul F. Dain

Author+

David E. Harris is a retired professor of teacher education at the University of Michigan. Anne-Lise Halvorsen is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, College of Education. Paul F. Dain is a retired government teacher and social studies department chair at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Contents+

Tentative Table of Contents

ABOUT THE CURRICULUM

Rationale and Goals

Content and Organization
   Organization of Chapters
   Chapter and Values Chart
   Word Count and Readability Chart

The Learning Activities

Questions and Answers About the Curriculum

Teaching the Chapters
   Selecting Chapters and Frequency of Use
   Length and Format of Lessons
   Formats for Discussion
   Conducting Discussions of Ethical Issues

Assessment and Grading
   Testing for Grading
   Substantive Criteria 
   Procedural Criteria
   Negative Criteria

Overview

ANSWERS FOR LEARNING ACTIVITIES, VOLUME 1

PART I: The Colonial Era (1607–1775)

Chapter 1. Stamp of Approval: Father Junipero Serra and Spanish Settlement of California 

Chapter 2. The Blame and Shame of It: Salem Witch Trials

Chapter 3. Defending the Redcoats: John Adams and the Boston Massacre

Chapter 4. A Luxury We Can't Afford: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

PART II: The New Nation (1776–1800) 

Chapter 5. Not One Morsel: The Petition of an Enslaved African Woman

Chapter 6. Washington for the British: Harry Washington and a Question of Loyalty

Chapter 7. The Power of a Fraction: James Wilson and the Three-Fifths Compromise

Chapter 8. A Little Rebellion Now and Then: The Whiskey Rebellion

PART III: Nation Building (1801–1828) 

Chapter 9. Chilling Effect: The Greenleafs and Freedom of the Press

Chapter 10. Back to Africa: All Will Be Well: The American Colonization Society and Daniel Coker's Mission to Settle West Africa

Chapter 11. Gerry's Salamander: Governor Elbridge Gerry's 1812 Redistricting of Massachusetts

Chapter 12. A Bowl with One Spoon: Chief Tecumseh and the War of 1812

PART IV: Manifest Destiny Manifest (1829–1849)

Chapter 13. A Woman's Place Is in the Factory: The Lowell Mill Strikes and Labor Reforms

Chapter 14. The Will of the People: Cherokee Removal

Chapter 15. Foreigner in my Native Land: Juan Seguín and the Texas Revolution

Chapter 16. A Different Drummer: Henry David Thoreau

PART V: A House Divided (1850–1865)

Chapter 17. The Bloodhound Law: The Fugitive Slave Law and Northerners' Resistance

Chapter 18. Blow Ye the Trumpet: John Brown: Antislavery Zealot

Chapter 19. Tears of Blood: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War

Chapter 20. Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Andrew Carnegie and the Civil War Draft

ANSWERS FOR LEARNING ACTIVITIES, VOLUME 2

PART VI: Reconstruction And The Gilded Age (1866–1890)

Chapter 21. Pioneering Suffragists: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Universal Suffrage

Chapter 22. The Last Battle of the Civil War: The Presidential Election of 1876

Chapter 23. Kill the Indian and Save the Man: Luther Standing Bear and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School 

Chapter 24. Telling a Lie to Discover the Truth: Nelly Bly’s Investigative Journalism

PART VII: Industrialization and Reform (1891–1918)

Chapter 25. Richest Man in the World: John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company

Chapter 26. The Wobbly Giant: Conflict Between Labor and Capital on the Frontier

Chapter 27. General Manager of the Nation: Nelson W. Aldrich and the Income Tax

Chapter 28. A War to End All Wars: American Entry into World War I

PART VIII: Between the Wars (1919–1940)

Chapter 29. Stealing North: Escaping Jim Crow

Chapter 30. Dust Can't Kill Me: Bank Foreclosures in the Great Depression

Chapter 31. Deportees: Deportation and Repatriation to Mexico: 1929-1939

Chapter 32. United We Sit: The Flint Sit-Down Strike

PART IX: Hot and Cold War (1941–1989)

Chapter 33. Yearning to Breathe Free: The Voyage of the St. Louis

Chapter 34. Tell Them We Love Them: Japanese Americans During World War II

Chapter 35. Naming of Names: Elia Kazan and McCarthyism

Chapter 36. Crime After Crime: The Burglary of an FBI Office

PART X: Contemporary America (1990–2017)

Chapter 37. 40 Acres and a Mule: Reparations for African Americans

Chapter 38. Bake Me a Cake: Wedding Cakes and the Constitution

Chapter 39. Accord Discord: The Paris Climate Accord of 2015

About the Authors 

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