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YEAR 4
 * Pre & Post Learning (KWL) Surveys>
 * Children's & Young Adult Literature Bibliographies

4th & 8th
 * The Birth of the Republic, 1760-1789 (Oct. 25)
 * Tennessee & the New Nation, 1790-1815 (Jan. 30)

5th
 * Tennessee's Civil War and Reconstruction (Sept. 17)
 * Between the WW's, TVA & the Manhattan Project [meet at AMSE, Oak Ridge] (Feb. 11)

11th
 * TVA & the Manhattan Project [meet at AMSE, Oak Ridge] (Nov. 8)
 * From Camelot to Watergate (Apr. 1)

Era 1: Three Worlds Meet
 * Pre-Columbian America
 * The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
 * The Columbian Exchange and Beyond

Era 2: Colonization and Settlement
 * Moving On: Why Enter a "New World"?
 * So Where is the Mystic River Anyway?
 * Freedom and Slavery in Late Colonial America

Era 4: Expansion and Reform
 * "Go West, Young Man"
 * Technology's Reach: From Cotton Fields to Textile Mills
 * The 1850s: America's Contentious Decade

Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction
 * A Fire Bell in the Night . . . The Causes of the Civil War
 * The American Civil War
 * Let Us Have Peace . . . the Era of Reconstruction

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States
 * Naming an Era
 * Tectonic Shifts for an Industrializing Nation
 * A Study in Contrasts

Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America, Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II, Era 9: Postwar United States, Era 10: Contemporary United States
 * Women's Suffrage and the Progressive Era
 * Years of Dust, Death, and Disruption: Searching for a New Deal for America
 * No Easy Walk: The Epic American Journey for Civil Rights

Keynote Addresses
 * Keynote Address - American Art
 * Keynote Address - Films
 * Keynote Address - Technology

Other:
 * Book Studies-Year Four (2013-2014)
 * 2011 Two Day June Institute
 * Fall 2011 Book Study
 * Summer 2012 Field Study: Boston/ NYC
 * Book Study- Year Three
 * Coal Mining
 * DC Summer 2013 Trip
 * Scopes Trial

Teacher PD Hours >
 * Anderson County - Year One
 * Sevier County - Year One
 * Union County - Year One
 * Anderson County - Year Two
 * Sevier County - Year Two
 * Union County - Year Two


 * Anderson County- Year Three
 * Sevier County- Year Three
 * Union County- Year Three


 * Anderson County- Year Four

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