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History of Rockford |
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Illinois Symbols |
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Woman History |
Our class will be using the Text book Illinois from Houghton Mifflin to study our state.
Unit 1 The Land and the People
The students will learn:
• About Illinois’s land and water features and how these features have changed over time
• About the earliest people to inhabit Illinois and how they lived
Chapter 1: Illinois’s Land and Early People
Unit 2 Exploration and Colonization
The students will learn:
• About early French exploration of Illinois and how the fur trade helped shape French settlement
• How conflicts among American Indians, the French, and the British, including the American Revolutionary War affected Illinois
Chapter 2: Exploring Illinois
Chapter 3: Conflict in Illinois
Unit 3 Growth and Expansion
The students will learn:
• How United States settlement spread westward after the American Revolution
• How the Illinois Territory became a state and the growth that followed
• Illinois’s role in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 4: Growth and Expansion
Chapter 5: Illinois becomes a state
Chapter 6: The Civil War
Unit 4 Illinois Grows
The students will learn:
• About changes in Illinois’s population, industry, and society from the late 1800s to the present
• How Illinois’s government functions and its relationship to federal government and individual American citizens
Chapter 7: A Time of change
Chapter 8: Government of the People
Unit 5 Illinois and the World
The students will learn:
• How the landforms, climate, and natural resources of the Midwest relate to the region’s economy
• How Illinois is linked to the ret of the United States and the world
Chapter 9: Exploring the Midwest
Chapter 10: Neighbors in the World
Make it Extra Credit ideas:
Poster size: 11x12 to 11x18 poster board
1. travel brochure/ design brochure that highlights Illinois’s attractions
2. newsletter/ write a short newsletter highlighting what your family likes about living in the Rockford area 1 page
3. interview questions/ the questions should require each leader to explain his or her view regarding slavery from the Civil War era
4. a timeline/ create a timeline showing the advances of individual rights of Illinoisans, suffrage for Illinois women, labor reform, and events in the civil rights movement
5. poster/create a poster about plants and animals found in Illinois; label and provide a fact about each drawing or picture
The class is working on a booklet about our home state. They will select one person from the Illinois personalities for a report.
Purpose:Discover and learn information about our state Illinois
Resources and Information:
1. Illinois booklet
2. Illinois road map
3. use web links for new information
tying-it-together:
The students would complete one of the following actitivies:
1. board game from the site about our home city Rockford
2. a report on Illinois
3. make a mobile about Illinois
4. write five to ten questions with answers from a web site that they visited from the Illinois resource page.
5.write a report on women from Illinois
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