Cliff Baker - Ye Olde History Emporium
Ye Olde US History Emporium started as a labor of love. When I was a new 8th grade US history teacher, I couldn’t find a textbook that I would want to read as a student: they were all shallow, incomprehensively written, and/or missing key stories of our nation’s history. As a result, I wrote my own -- a 380 page “warts and all” US history textbook covering Columbus through Reconstruction -- and complemented it with an entire curriculum of study guides, PowerPoints, games, projects, activities, and primary source examinations. This curriculum is focused on telling the very human story of our nation’s history from all points of view, which means it includes extensive coverage of the Native American and African American experience. For more than a decade this textbook (separated into 10 units) and the associated lessons have been and continue to be battle tested and refined in the crucible of my own 8th grade classroom. They will not disappoint.
Cliff Baker (Ye Olde History Teacher) has a BA from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) and a J.D. from UC Davis. He is a former trial and appellate lawyer who switched to working with actual adolescents from adults who simply acted like them. As an 8th grade history teacher he works twice as hard, makes half as much, and won’t ever go back.
Visit me at https://yeoldehistoryteacher.com/ or follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/cliffb714.
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Checks and Balances study aid/ interactive notebook
$3.00One of the main strengths of our form of government, as laid out in the Constitution, is the system of Checks and Balances which protect against government over-reaching by spreading out power among three disparate and independent branches. Wisely, our...$3.00 -
Checks and Balances Quiz Show PowerPoint
$4.00Let’s face it – review of Checks and Balances is not exactly a student’s idea of fun. As a teacher, however, you can take away most of the boredom and drudgery by making a game out of it. This 74 slide Quiz Show PowerPoint helps...$4.00 -
Federalist Papers primary source analysis activity
$3.00Writing the U.S. Constitution was the easy part; the hard part was convincing the states to subordinate their freshly won sovereignty from England to the new national government to be created under the Constitution. The battle over ratification of the...$3.00 -
Checks and Balances complete unit, including text
$12.00One of the main strengths of our form of government, as laid out in the Constitution, is the system of Checks and Balances which protect against government over-reaching by spreading out power among three disparate and independent branches. Wisely, our...$12.00 -
Bill of Rights complete unit, including text
$12.00One of the strongest arguments made against ratification of the US Constitution was the fact that it did not include a Bill of Rights. In fact, it was the promise to include a Bill of Rights to the Constitution that convinced delegates to the Virginia...$12.00 -
The Constitution and Bill of Rights unit bundle, including text
$30.00The end of the Revolutionary War did not create the United States; rather, it created 13 independent, sovereign states loosely affiliated under the Articles of Confederation. It took a series of economic, foreign policy and domestic crises to convince...$30.00 -
Primary Source Activity Bundle - 8 separate activities
$10.00This activity bundle includes eight popular U.S. history primary source activities from my store:1. American SlaveryIn this activity students will examine a variety of primary source documents concerning this stain on our nation’s history. This is...$10.00 -
Was Jefferson a Hypocrite? Or Simply a Man of his Time? Text
$3.00Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the Declaration of Independence, and publicly acknowledged that slavery was “a great political and moral evil.” Yet the same man who wrote that all men were entitled to...$3.00 -
Native Americans, Women, and Loyalists in the Revolution - supplemental text
$3.00The American Revolutionary War presented problems and opportunities for Native Americans, women, and loyalists. Despite a wish to remain neutral in a conflict that they did not understand, many tribes were dragged into the war with disastrous...$3.00 -
The American Revolutionary War and Independence - supplemental text
$6.00This text covers the American Revolutionary War and the decision to declare independence from England. It covers the political, military and economic history of the war itself, from the Battles of Lexington and Concord to the Treaty of Paris, takes a...$6.00 -
The Road to Revolution - supplemental text
$6.00In less than twelve years, the 13 colonies went from firm allegiance to the English crown to open, armed rebellion. This text examines the circumstances and events which led the 13 colonies to split from their mother country. It begins with the French...$6.00 -
Reconstruction Amendments Primary Source Analysis Activity
$2.00The Civil War and Reconstruction period saw the United States government, for the first time, take an active role in trying to reverse the stain of slavery and racism and provide civil equality for freedmen and their descendants. The most enduring legacy...$2.00