Social Studies

VOCABULARY PLUS:
Mastering Content Words in United States History

When they understand the vocabulary, they retain the content!

Develop students' vocabulary while their knowledge of U.S. History!

Vocabulary Plus is the supplement you've been looking for-for all your U. S. history programs. Thirty-six manageable lessons familiarize students with ten new words per lesson while presenting U.S. History chronologically. Lessons reinforce vocabulary and content from Colonialization, the American Revolution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, through Industrial America, the U.S. as a world power, and the U.S. in today's world. Students learn new words, complete sentences that teach history, and write with their new vocabulary. See below for the types and modes of writing that students will practice.

Content:

• Unit 1 Colonization
• Unit 2 The American Revolution
• Unit 3 The Civil War and Reconstruction
• Unit 4 Industrial America
• Unit 5 The United States as a World Power
• Unit 6 The United States in the World Today
• End of Book Review
• Glossary
• Student Record Keeping Chart

Types of Writing

• Sentence writing
• News Headlines
• First-Person Narrative
• Expository Paragraph
• Letter Writing
• Charts and Lists
• Compare and Contrast
• Cause and Effect
• News Article
• Descriptive Paragraph
• Eyewitness Memoir
• Summarize
• Problem/Solution
• Personal Response

Modes of Writing

• Analytical/Expository
• Imaginative/Narrative
• Sensory/Descriptive
• Practical/Informative

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Additional Key Words: composition, writing, history, social studies

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