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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Escape to Freedom - African Americans in the Revolutionary War board game, including text
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The American Revolution unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 16 day complete unit 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 Battle of Bunker Hill to the Treaty of Paris, takes...$30.00 -
The Road to Revolution unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 15 day complete unit examines the events which led the 13 colonies to engage in open, armed rebellion against their mother country, England. It begins in 1763 at the end of the French and Indian War and culminates with the battles at Lexington and...$30.00 -
Pattern of Conquest: How the Indians Lost Their Land mini-unit, including text
$6.00It’s a question school kids invariably ask when they study the 13 colonies: what happened to the Indians? While hard numbers are impossible come by, historians estimate there were well over a million Native Americans inhabiting the eastern seaboard...$6.00 -
Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony mini-unit, including text
$6.00Harassed into leaving England and unhappy with their new home in Holland, the Pilgrims took a literal leap of faith in coming to the New World to begin a new colony where they could practice their particular brand of Puritanism away from constraints of...$6.00 -
Jamestown mini-unit including text
$12.00“What a wonderful product. My students and I really enjoyed this section and the information shared. They even didn't complain about the essay! Thanks for sharing and creating.” It took twenty years after the failure of Roanoke for England...$12.00 -
Did Pocahontas Save John Smith? An Investigation and Essay Activity - including text
$6.00It’s a story familiar to every American child – that John Smith, captured by Powhatan Indians, was about to have his head smashed in when suddenly the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas, laid her head on his and begged her father not to kill...$6.00 -
Why Did the Indians Lose Their Land? strategy game including text
$5.00“good resource” It’s a question school kids invariably ask when they study the 13 colonies: what happened to the Indians? While hard numbers are impossible come by, historians estimate there were well over a million Native Americans...$5.00 -
13 Colonies Quiz Show PowerPoint
$4.00“Saved me lots of time, thank you.” Let’s face it – review and study prep for a 13 colonies unit test is not exactly a student’s idea of fun. As a teacher, however, you can take away most of the boredom and drudgery by...$4.00 -
Columbus "Discovers" the New World - the good, the bad, and the very ugly mini-unit, including text
$6.00“The readings and questions were perfect.” No figure has haunted the American psyche as much as Christopher Columbus. He was, to say the least, a very complicated figure, and the focus of centuries of debate over his true legacy. On the one...$6.00 -
Jamestown Survives board game
$4.00“My students were enthralled with this game and it really helped seal their understanding.” Jamestown was the first English foothold in North America, and the first colonists had a very rough go of it. In fact, during the “Starving...$4.00 -
The Development of Race Based Slavery/The Middle Passage unit, including text
$15.00“I really like your units. They are detailed and allows for critical thinking on the part of the students. Thank you!” Why did the European colonists in the New World use African slaves for their labor? How did the system of enslaving an...$15.00