10th Grade
The first few weeks of the first quarter we concentrate on local history.
The first week of the quarter was spent on the Sioux Uprising at Lake
Shetek.
The next two weeks of the quarter were spent on the Dakota Conflict.
We will finish this part of the year on a field trip to
The Lower Sioux Agency, Birch Coulee Battleground, and Fort Ridgely.
Students are expected to participate in building part of the virtual
tour of this field trip.
A link to the virtual tour of area historic sites will be on the "Local
Attractions Page" of RRCnet.
Around the first part of October we will begin our first unit in "Triumph
of the American Nation".
The second quarter is spent going through the text. We will spend
nine weeks going over the
years from Reconstruction to the First World War. After going over
the growth of industrialism,
and the rise of America as a world power we will view the video All's
Quiet on the Western Front and
"55 DAYS AT PEKING"
Charlton Heston stars as Maj. Matt Lewis,
the leader of an army of
multinational soldiers who head to Peking
during the infamous Boxer
Rebellion of 1900. At the end of the 19th
century, the powerful Manchus
of the Ch'ing Dynasty were struggling to survive.
The increasingly strong
European presence in China had led to the
formation of "The Righteous
Harmony Fists", an organization of patriotic
Chinese that Europeans came
to nickname "The Boxers". Turning their cause
into a religious crusade
aimed at Christians, the Boxers grew in number
over a two year period.
The Chinese uprising, a frenzied movement
of hate against all foreign
elements, became a death trap for a small
group of men, women and
children from eleven foreign delegations taking
refuge in a walled
compound during the fierce 55 day siege of
Peking. Their heroic stand
against the fanatical hordes provides tense
action as well as dramatic insight
into the ferocious rebellion which stunned
the turn-of-the-century world.
As the film unfolds, the foreign embassies
in Peking are being held in a grip
of terror as the Boxers set about massacring
Christians in an anti-Christian
nationalistic fever.
This video will introduce us to the problems of modern society and
what challenges our
country faces today.
The second semester will deal with modern times. We will begin
the semester going over the
conditions that forced the United States into two wars. We will also
look at the growth of
modern American society. The first nine weeks will be spent on the
first fifty years of the 1900's.
We will start with WW I and end up with WW II. We hope to continue
working on some
individual projects that will help us understand historical perspective.
