History Blueprint Scope and Sequence
History Blueprint
Tier 2 Scope & Sequence: 11th Grade U.S. History
Curriculum Level
Targeted Support
Instructional Focus
This Tier 2 Scope and Sequence provides targeted support for 11th-grade students, focusing on Power Skills, Academic Language, and Scaffolding Tips to ensure all learners access high-level historical concepts.
Power Skills
Essential standards and high-leverage cognitive tasks.
Academic Language
Tier 2 & 3 vocabulary clusters for complex texts.
Scaffolding Tips
Specific strategies to modify instruction and lower barriers.
Unit 1: Founding of the Nation
Weeks 1-4
Power Skills
- • Analyze how Enlightenment ideals shaped the Declaration.
- • Evaluate democracy vs. central authority.
Vocabulary
Sovereignty Federalism Unalienable
Scaffolding Tips
Provide sentence frames for the Declaration; chunk text into sections for primary source analysis.
Unit 2: Industrialization & Migration
Weeks 5-7
Power Skills
- • Connect technological growth to urbanization.
- • Analyze push/pull factors of 1800s immigration.
Vocabulary
Urbanization Monopoly Innovation
Scaffolding Tips
Use Photo Analysis worksheets for tenement life; provide T-charts for push/pull factors.
Unit 3: Role of Religion
Weeks 8-9
Power Skills
- • Examine 1st Amendment impact on pluralism.
- • Trace influences on social/political reform.
Vocabulary
Pluralism Secular Ethical
Scaffolding Tips
Use Concept Maps for "Pluralism"; provide Venn diagrams to compare secular and religious reform goals.
Unit 4: USA's Rise to Power
Weeks 10-12
Power Skills
- • Evaluate causes/effects of Imperialism.
- • Compare Big Stick and Taft foreign policies.
Vocabulary
Imperialism Diplomacy Annexation
Scaffolding Tips
Provide map labeling activities for territorial expansion; use "Policy vs. Practice" comparison charts.
Unit 5: The Roaring Twenties
Weeks 13-15
Power Skills
- • Contrast traditional and modern values.
- • Analyze technology's role in consumerism.
Vocabulary
Prohibition Consumerism Modernism
Scaffolding Tips
Analyze cultural artifacts (ads, music); use flapper vs. traditionalist character comparison charts.
Unit 6: Great Depression & New Deal
Weeks 16-19
Power Skills
- • Identify economic causes of the 1929 crash.
- • Evaluate government role in the New Deal.
Vocabulary
Regulation Speculation Subsidy
Scaffolding Tips
Practice graph interpretation (unemployment); use acronym guides for New Deal agencies (CCC, WPA).
Unit 7: World War II
Weeks 20-23
Power Skills
- • Analyze shifts in US foreign policy.
- • Evaluate home front social impacts.
Vocabulary
Totalitarian Mobilization Rationing
Scaffolding Tips
Analyze propaganda posters with guiding questions; use Home Front journals for empathy-based writing.
Unit 8: Post-WWII
Weeks 24-26
Power Skills
- • Describe growth of the middle class.
- • Explain the post-war economic boom.
Vocabulary
Suburbia Affluence Legislation
Scaffolding Tips
Venn diagram for Urban vs. Suburban life; create flowcharts for the impact of the GI Bill.
Unit 9: The Cold War
Weeks 27-30
Power Skills
- • Explain containment and global application.
- • Analyze nuclear impact on policy.
Vocabulary
Containment Proxy War Espionage
Scaffolding Tips
Create a Containment flowchart; label "Iron Curtain" maps to visualize sphere of influence.
Unit 10: Civil Rights
Weeks 31-34
Power Skills
- • Compare Civil Rights tactics and leaders.
- • Evaluate role of Supreme Court.
Vocabulary
Integration Non-violence Grassroots
Scaffolding Tips
Chunk speech excerpts (MLK vs. X) with guiding questions; use protest tactic matching cards.
Unit 11: Contemporary America
Weeks 35-36
Power Skills
- • Analyze globalization impacts.
- • Explain digital age privacy concerns.
Vocabulary
Globalization Polarization Geopolitics
Scaffolding Tips
Analyze modern news headlines; use digital footprint discussion prompts for privacy evaluation.
History Blueprint: Tier 2 Instructional Support
Updated: March 2026
