Unit 14: Regents Review

Unit Understanding Goal

Additional Regents Review Resources  

Lesson #1: Diagnostic Regents Exam

UG: In what areas do I need to improve before the Regents Exam?

 Materials:

• June 2011 U.S. History Regents Exam
• Scoring Key: 2010 U.S. History Regents Exam

Homework: Read the following:

• Geography,
• Colonial Period
• American Revolution
• Critical Period
• Complete the accompanying worksheet (packet p.1)

Lesson #2: Review of Colonial & Revolutionary America

UG: To review Unit 1 understanding goals.

Materials:

• Resources from Unit 1: Colonization to Independence  
• Colonization & Revolution Jeopardy
• American Geography Interactive Regents Questions
• Colonial Period Interactive Regents Questions

Homework: Do Constitution reading.  Read/study Government cheat sheet.  Review Chart of Supreme Court cases .  Complete the "Government Review Questions" worksheet.

Lesson #3: Government

UG: To review Unit 3 understanding goals.

Materials:

• Glossary of Government Terms  
• Government Jeopardy  
• Supreme Court Jeopardy
• Resources from Unit 3: Government  
• Historical Examples of Government Actions  
• Government Interactive Regents Questions
• Supreme Court Cases Interactive Regents Questions

Homework: Read "Early 1800s" and complete "Early 1800s Review Questions" worksheet.

Lesson #4: Issues in the Early 19th Century

UG: To review understanding goals from Units 4 and 5.

Materials:

• Jeopardy: The Nineteenth Century U.S.
• Resources from Unit 3: The Early Republic  
• Resources from Unit 4: The Civil War  
• Federalist Era Interactive Regents Questions
• Jacksonian Era Interactive Regents Questions
• Manifest Destiny Interactive Regents Questions

Homework: Do Civil War, Reconstruction & Westward Expansion readings and complete the corresponding worksheet (packet p.9)

Lesson #5: The Civil War, Reconstruction, & Westward Expansion

UG: To review understanding goals from Units 6 and 7.

Materials:

• Resources from Unit 4: The Civil War  
• Resources from Unit 5: Reconstruction & Westward Expansion 
• Civil War Interactive Regents Questions
• Reconstruction Interactive Regents Questions
• Westward Expansion Interactive Regents Questions

Homework: Read Industrialization & Gilded Age Review Reading and complete the corresponding worksheet. 

Lesson #6: Industrialization and the Gilded Age

UG: To review understanding goals from Unit 6 and 7.

Materials:

• Industrialization Terms
• Resources from Unit 6: The Industrialization & Gilded Age
• Gilded Age Interactive Regents Questions
• Immigration Interactive Regents Questions

Homework: Read "The Progressive Era" and complete the "Progressive Era & Suffrage Review Questions" worksheet.

Lesson #8: The Progressive Era 

UG: To reivew understanding goals from Unit 8

Materials:

• Resources from Unit 8: The Progressive Era
• Reform Movements Chart
• Populist Movement Interactive Regents Exam Questions
• Progressive Era Interactive Regents Exam Questions

Homework: Read "Imperialism & World War I" and complete the "Imperialism & World War I Review Questions."

Lesson #10: Imperialism & World War I Review

 UG: To review the Unit 9 understanding goals.

Materials:

• Jeopardy: Imperialism & World War I
• Resources from Unit 9: Imperialism & World War I
• Resources from Unit 11: World War II & The Cold War
• Foreign Policies Chart
• Foreign Policies Review Game
• Imperialism Interactive Regents Questions
• World War I Interactive Regents Questions

Homework:Do Twenties and Thirties reading and complete the corresponding questions (packet p.12).

Lesson #11: The Twenties and Thirties

UG: To review the Unit 10 understanding goals.

Materials:

• Early 20th Century Review Jeopardy
• Red Scare Interactive Regents Questions
• Twenties Interactive Regents Questions
• Great Depression Interactive Regents Questions

Homework: on your own paper, outline responses to the Change and Reform Movements Thematic Essays (pp.13-14).  Provide a specific thesis statement, and a topic sentence & bullets with supporting information for each body paragraph.

Lesson #12: Exam Tips

UG: What strategies should I use on the U.S. History & Government Regents exam?

Materials:

• Format & Tips for U.S. History Regents Exam
• Additional Practice Regents Exams
• Interactive Regents Exam Questions (All Areas) 

Homework: Study for the Regents Exam.  Click here for additional Regents Review Resources.