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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Northwest Ordinance mini-unit, including text and game
$5.00Even before the Constitution had been ratified and the new nation created, the question had already been raised: how would new territories be included in the budding nation? It was Thomas Jefferson who provided the answer in the waning days of the...$5.00 -
Louisiana Purchase primary source analysis activity
$3.00The Louisiana Purchase was one of the most defining moments in our nation’s development as a global power. For a relative pittance, the country doubled in size overnight. Yet this landmark purchase wasn’t even a consideration for Jefferson as...$3.00 -
Northwest Ordinance game - includes text
$4.00Even before the Constitution had been ratified and the new nation created, the question had already been raised: how would new territories be included in the budding nation? It was Thomas Jefferson who provided the answer in the waning days of the...$4.00 -
The Constitutional Convention - supplemental text
$2.00The 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...$2.00 -
You Be the Judge - analyzing Supreme Court cases on the Bill of Rights
$3.00It’s one thing to simply memorize the Bill of Rights; it’s quite another to actually understand how they apply in everyday life. Teaching the former gives students words but no understanding for what they mean; teaching the latter gives...$3.00 -
Checks and Balances practice worksheets
$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 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 -
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