This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.
This course covers the discovery, development, and growth of the United States. Major topics include Native American cultures, European colonization of the Americas, and the causes and effects of the American Revolution. Students will explore how geographic, economic, and political factors influenced the growth of the United States of America. Students will examine the struggle to build the United States from the colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century by reading, analyzing, and applying historical data.
Major topics include:
- Process of Independence
- Constitutional Government
- Industrialism and Slavery
- Civil War
- Westward Expansion
- Post-Civil War Issues
Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.
This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.
