US History Regents Short Essay "Toward Federal Supremacy" and Video

US History Regents Short Essay "Toward Federal Supremacy" + Video Lessons

The American civil war had as its principle result the establishment of federal government supremacy over the states. Slavery was the issue that brought it on, but the rebellion itself was launched by those who wished to continue to keep some people in bondage and refused the interventions of government. The drama plays out in documents which reveal the struggles of the time and the steps taken by the US government to expand its power so as to achieve its ends.

Products included in this resource:

• Set 1, 2 documents

• Set 2, 2 documents

• Scoring rubric

• Passcode to video lessons students can use to prepare the task.

The US History Regents Short Essay "Civil War" + Video Lessons resource includes a zip file with two PDF files with the documents to read, one PDF file with the scoring rubric, a word document with the password needed for the video lesson. Additionally, there is another PDF document with the Regents 11 Short Essay – Grading Rubric from Innovation.

If you are afraid to assign your students this as a test because they are not likely to do well at first and don’t want to bother their GPA, I recommend using standardized scoring. You can use the z-score calculator here at Innovation Assessments. Use 78 as your standard mean and 14.8 as your standardized standard deviation. Read more about standardized scoring here and where I got those figures. The beauty of this system is you can apply this to their grades every month and as the class improves, as the class average approaches the standardized mean (78 in this case), then the algorithm affects their scores less and less.

Documents:

January 12, 1863: Jefferson Davis responds to the Emancipation Proclamation

A proclamation on the suspension of habeas corpus, 1862

Bliss Copy of The Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

"One Man Power vs. Congress" address, Charles Sumner (Mass.), Boston 2 October 1866

Passcode Lessons:

• Antebellum part 1

• Antebellum part 2

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