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Exploring US History

Exploring US History

Becky Coffey
Tuesday 9AM - 10:30AM (ET)

Original price was: $675.00.Current price is: $499.00.
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Exploring US History Course Description

Exploring US History is a middle school level class which explores United States history from the discovery of the New World to modern day history. Students will learn about our amazing history, people, and events which have occurred throughout our history.

Mrs. Coffey is a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, and uses her vast genealogical and historical knowledge to bring the founding of our country to life for her students.

Students will use a textbook with weekly readings as the basis of class with lively discussions, PowerPoints, virtual museum tours, videos and fun facts in live class to make history interesting and fun. Students will also complete a timeline of events and people throughout the year, with a year-long fun (a student favorite) presidents project.

Weekly open book reading quizzes from each chapter will be given, with other short projects interspersed throughout the year to bring a hands-on element to the class.

Grade Levels

  • 5th – 8th grade

Prerequisites

  • None; however, please note that this textbook is at the BJU Press 8th grade level. Students who are not at this reading level are welcome to have parents or siblings read to them.

Curriculum

  • BJU Press: The American Republic, fifth edition
  • BJU Press: The American Republic, Activities, fifth edition
  • Timeline Materials

Exploring US History Course Outline

Unit Topics and Agenda:

  • Exploration and the New World
  • The Thirteen Colonies
  • Colonial Times
  • The War for Independence
  • The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
  • Establishing a New Government
  • Growth of the Nation and Expansion Westward
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Industrialism
  • The Last Frontier
  • Imperialism
  • The Spanish-American War
  • Progressive Era
  • World War I
  • The 1920’s
  • The Great Depression
  • World War II
  • Postwar America
  • The 1960’s and 70’s
  • The Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump Administrations and Years
  • America Today

Estimated Workload

  • Dependent on the student’s reading speed

Becky Coffey

Mrs. Becky Coffey hails from the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. She is married to Barry, and they have four married sons and six grandchildren. They work in ministry, Barry is a pastor, and Mrs. Coffey is a musician. Mrs. Coffey home-educated her four sons for all of their K-12 school years (twenty-five years in total), led the county home educators' association, and has volunteered in various state home educators' roles. Her sons have all graduated with college degrees and are successful in their fields, so she knows that home education works!

She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching: Secondary Education, and a Master of Arts in History. She also holds teaching certificates for music theory. She loves teaching, education, and all things history. She has taught online for Big River Academy for the last seven years, filling the social studies and music departments. She teaches piano, harp, recorder (historic), and ukulele from her home studio in Virginia.

Mrs. Coffey also loves to travel, having traveled from a very young age with her parents in ministry all around the world. She has been to six continents, on many mission and ministry trips and also travels for pleasure. She loves to incorporate the history and culture of the places she has been into her lessons. Her hobbies include genealogy, photography, sewing/quilting, and gardening. She is a proud, current member of the Daughters of the American Revolution with (at last count) thirteen grandfathers who fought for the freedom of our country. She is also the current president of the Price Family Historical Society.

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