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I teach eighth grade US History. California standards take us through the end of Reconstruction, but my department head, who is a high school teacher (we are K-12), wants me to get into the mid-20th century.

The difficulty is that this is a pretty fast pace for middle schoolers, and my guys are not the most independent learners. They think we're going too fast, and I'm already a few weeks behind my optimistic pacing plan.

Thoughts about how to move a class quickly through US? We're using McDougal Littell's US History, and there's no problem with my bringing in outside sources.
Deb ms/IA Visit with your department head and tell him/her that there is no way to get to that point and stick with covering reconstruction. My partner teaches the exact same time period and that is where he gets by school dismissal in May. Civil War in April and reconstruction in May. I cover the literature section of Civil War in April too and then we have...See More
Oct 14, 2017


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