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Plan de estudios de 11.º grado
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- 94 unidades
- 626 lecciones
- 94 pruebas de unidad
- Kínder
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- 4.º grado
- 5.º grado
- 6.º grado
- 7.º grado
- 8.º grado
- 9.º grado
- 10.º grado
- 11.º grado
- 12.º grado
- Preparación para exámenes
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Literatura estadounidense
24 unidades · 156 lecciones · 24 pruebas de unidad · 180 días de clase
Unidad 1GRATISNative American Oral Traditions
What did the first American stories teach, and how did they survive without being written down?
- Origin Stories: The World on the Turtle's Back
- Trickster Tales
- The Oral Tradition: Memory and Performance
- Oratory: Red Jacket's Reply (1805)
- Chief Joseph: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
- Unit 1 Test: Native American Oral Traditions
Unidad 2Puritan and Colonial Writing
How did faith, hardship, and a sense of mission shape the first English writing in America?
- Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation
- Winthrop: A City Upon a Hill
- Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
- Bradstreet: "Upon the Burning of Our House"
- Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
- The Puritan Worldview and Plain Style
- Unit 2 Test: Puritan and Colonial Writing
Unidad 3The Revolution: Reason and Revolt
How did American writers use reason and rhetoric to argue a nation into existence?
- Franklin's Autobiography: The Plan for Moral Perfection
- Poor Richard's Aphorisms
- Paine: Common Sense
- Paine: The American Crisis
- Henry: Speech to the Virginia Convention
- Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
- Voices Left Out: Abigail Adams and Phillis Wheatley
- Unit 3 Test: The Revolution: Reason and Revolt
Unidad 4Rhetorical Analysis Workshop
How do speakers and writers make choices that move an audience, and how do we explain those choices?
- The Rhetorical Situation
- Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
- Rhetorical Devices: Repetition and Balance
- Diction, Tone, and Syntax
- Arguing From a Shared Text: Susan B. Anthony
- Allusion and Parody: The Declaration of Sentiments
- Writing a Rhetorical Analysis
- Unit 4 Test: Rhetorical Analysis Workshop
Unidad 5American Romanticism: Irving and Poe
Why did American writers turn from reason toward imagination, emotion, and the strange?
- What Was Romanticism?
- Irving: "Rip Van Winkle"
- Irving: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
- Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"
- Poe: "The Raven"
- Poe's Single Effect: "The Masque of the Red Death"
- Unit 5 Test: American Romanticism: Irving and Poe
Unidad 6Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau
What happens when a person trusts nature, intuition, and conscience over society's rules?
- What Was Transcendentalism?
- Emerson: "Self-Reliance"
- Emerson's Poetry: "Concord Hymn"
- Thoreau: Why I Went to the Woods
- Thoreau: Simplify
- Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience"
- Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Legacy
- Unit 6 Test: Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau
Unidad 7Dark Romanticism: Hawthorne and Melville
What do sin, secrecy, and obsession reveal about human nature?
- Dark Romanticism
- Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown"
- Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"
- The Scarlet Letter: The Prison Door
- The Scarlet Letter: Symbol and Character
- Melville: Ishmael, Ahab, and Bartleby
- Unit 7 Test: Dark Romanticism: Hawthorne and Melville
Unidad 8Emily Dickinson
How can a short poem, full of dashes and slant rhymes, hold enormous ideas about death, hope, and the self?
- Dickinson's Life and Style
- "Because I could not stop for Death"
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers
- "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
- Paradox: "Much Madness" and "Success"
- "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –"
- Unit 8 Test: Emily Dickinson
Unidad 9Walt Whitman
How did Walt Whitman invent a new kind of poetry big enough to hold a whole democracy?
- Free Verse and the Catalog: "Song of Myself"
- "A child said What is the grass?"
- "I Hear America Singing"
- "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
- Elegy: "O Captain! My Captain!"
- Dickinson and Whitman Compared
- Unit 9 Test: Walt Whitman
Unidad 10Slave Narratives and Abolition
How did formerly enslaved writers and abolitionists use words as weapons against slavery?
- The Slave Narrative as a Genre
- Douglass: Learning to Read
- Douglass: "How a Slave Was Made a Man"
- Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
- Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Sojourner Truth: Two Versions of a Speech
- Abolitionist Rhetoric: Garrison and Lincoln
- Unit 10 Test: Slave Narratives and Abolition
Unidad 11Argument Writing Workshop
How do you build an argument that a skeptical reader has to take seriously?
- Claims: Arguable, Specific, Defensible
- Evidence and Reasoning
- Counterclaims and Rebuttals
- Logical Fallacies
- Organizing an Argument Essay
- Introductions and Conclusions
- Formal Style and Objective Tone
- Unit 11 Test: Argument Writing Workshop
Unidad 12Realism: Mark Twain
How did Mark Twain use humor, a boy's voice, and a river journey to tell hard truths about America?
- Realism and Regionalism
- Twain's Humor: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog"
- Huck Finn: Voice and Dialect
- Huck Finn: The Raft and the River
- Huck Finn: "All right, then, I'll go to hell"
- Satire: Twain's Targets
- Unit 12 Test: Realism: Mark Twain
Unidad 13Realism: Inner Lives and Hidden Truths
How did writers at the end of the 1800s reveal the hidden inner lives behind ordinary appearances?
- Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" and Situational Irony
- Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" — Imagery and Point of View
- Chopin: The Awakening
- Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" — The Narrator
- Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" — Symbol and Ending
- Bierce: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- Unit 13 Test: Realism: Inner Lives and Hidden Truths
Unidad 14Naturalism: Crane and London
What happens to human pride when people face forces of nature far bigger than themselves?
- What Is Naturalism?
- Crane: "The Open Boat"
- Crane's Poems: "A Man Said to the Universe"
- Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
- London: "To Build a Fire" — Man Against Nature
- London: Instinct and the Dog
- Unit 14 Test: Naturalism: Crane and London
Unidad 15The Harlem Renaissance
How did Black writers of the early 1900s claim their own voice in American literature?
- Roots: Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
- Du Bois: Double Consciousness
- Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
- Hughes: "I, Too" and "Mother to Son"
- McKay: "If We Must Die"
- McKay: "America"
- Many Voices: Cullen and Hurston
- Unit 15 Test: The Harlem Renaissance
Unidad 16Modern Poetry: Frost and the Modernists
How did poets of the early 1900s "make it new" while still speaking to ordinary readers?
- Modernism: Make It New
- Frost: "The Road Not Taken"
- Frost: "Mending Wall"
- Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- Frost: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "Fire and Ice"
- City Voices: Sandburg and Eliot
- Unit 16 Test: Modern Poetry: Frost and the Modernists
Unidad 17The Great Gatsby, Part 1
In the Jazz Age, what do wealth and glamour hide?
- Fitzgerald, the Jazz Age, and Nick Carraway
- Chapter 1: East Egg and the Green Light
- Chapter 2: The Valley of Ashes
- Chapter 3: Gatsby's Parties
- Meeting Gatsby: The Smile
- Setting as Symbol: The Eggs and the City
- Unit 17 Test: The Great Gatsby, Part 1
Unidad 18The Great Gatsby, Part 2
Can a person remake himself, and repeat the past, in pursuit of the American Dream?
- Chapters 4–5: Gatsby's Story and the Reunion
- Chapter 6: James Gatz and the Self-Made Man
- Chapter 7: The Plaza — "Her Voice Is Full of Money"
- Chapters 7–8: The Accident and Its Aftermath
- Chapters 8–9: "They Were Careless People"
- The Ending: Boats Against the Current
- Gatsby and the American Dream
- Unit 18 Test: The Great Gatsby, Part 2
Unidad 19The Research Essay
How do you turn a question into a well-supported, honestly sourced research essay?
- Asking a Research Question
- Finding and Evaluating Sources
- Primary and Secondary Sources
- Integrating Quotations
- Paraphrase, Summary, and Plagiarism
- MLA Citation Basics
- Synthesizing Sources
- Revising the Research Essay
- Unit 19 Test: The Research Essay
Unidad 20SAT/ACT Grammar: Sentence Boundaries and Punctuation
How do punctuation marks control where ideas begin, end, and connect?
- Fragments and Run-ons
- Comma Splices and How to Fix Them
- Semicolons and Colons
- Dashes and Nonessential Elements
- Commas: Introductory Elements and Lists
- Apostrophes and Possessives
- Unnecessary Commas
- Punctuation Mixed Practice
- Unit 20 Test: SAT/ACT Grammar: Sentence Boundaries and Punctuation
Unidad 21SAT/ACT Grammar: Agreement, Clarity and Style
How do agreement, precision, and concision make writing clear and correct?
- Subject–Verb Agreement
- Pronoun Agreement and Case
- Verb Tense and Consistency
- Modifier Placement
- Parallel Structure
- Concision and Redundancy
- Transitions
- Commonly Confused Words
- Unit 21 Test: SAT/ACT Grammar: Agreement, Clarity and Style
Unidad 22SAT/ACT Reading and Expression
What strategies help you read closely and revise precisely under test conditions?
- Words in Context
- Central Idea and Purpose
- Text Structure and Function
- Command of Evidence: Text and Data
- Paired Passages
- Rhetorical Synthesis: Using Notes
- Revising for Purpose: Add, Delete, Revise
- Unit 22 Test: SAT/ACT Reading and Expression
Unidad 23Year in Review: Beginnings to 1865
How did American literature change from its oral beginnings to the end of the Civil War?
- Review: Oral Traditions and Puritan Writing
- Review: The Revolution and Rhetoric
- Review: Irving, Poe, and Romanticism
- Review: Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics
- Review: Dickinson, Whitman, and Abolition
- Unit 23 Test: Year in Review: Beginnings to 1865
Unidad 24Year in Review: 1865 to 1929 and Skills
What have you learned about modern American literature, and how will you use your reading and writing skills?
- Review: Realism and Naturalism
- Review: Harlem Renaissance and Modern Poetry
- Review: The Great Gatsby
- Review: Argument, Research, and Analysis
- Review: Grammar for the SAT and ACT
- Unit 24 Test: Year in Review: 1865 to 1929 and Skills
Álgebra 2
22 unidades · 158 lecciones · 22 pruebas de unidad · 180 días de clase
Unidad 1GRATISFunctions and Their Graphs
How can one rule describe how one quantity depends on another?
- Relations and Functions
- Function Notation
- Domain and Range
- Reading Key Features of Graphs
- Average Rate of Change
- Piecewise and Absolute Value Functions
- Combining and Composing Functions
- Unit 1 Test: Functions and Their Graphs
Unidad 2Transformations of Functions
How do small changes to a formula move, flip and stretch its graph?
- Parent Functions
- Vertical and Horizontal Shifts
- Reflections
- Vertical Stretches and Compressions
- Horizontal Stretches and Compressions
- Combining Transformations
- Even and Odd Functions
- Unit 2 Test: Transformations of Functions
Unidad 3Systems of Equations in Two and Three Variables
How do you find the values that make several conditions true at once?
- Linear Systems in Two Variables
- Systems with a Line and a Parabola
- Systems of Linear Inequalities
- Equations in Three Variables
- Solving Three-Variable Systems by Elimination
- Special Cases in Three Variables
- Modeling with Three-Variable Systems
- Unit 3 Test: Systems of Equations
Unidad 4Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs
What can the shape of a parabola tell you about a real situation?
- Vertex Form
- Standard Form and the Axis of Symmetry
- Factored Form
- Converting Between Forms
- Maximum and Minimum Problems
- Writing Quadratic Functions
- Quadratic Inequalities
- Unit 4 Test: Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs
Unidad 5Solving Quadratic Equations
Which method is the fastest route to the solutions of a quadratic?
- Solving by Square Roots
- Solving by Factoring
- Completing the Square
- The Quadratic Formula
- The Discriminant
- Quadratic Models and Word Problems
- Equations in Quadratic Form
- Unit 5 Test: Solving Quadratic Equations
Unidad 6Complex Numbers
What happens when we allow the square root of a negative number?
- The Imaginary Unit i
- Powers of i
- Adding and Subtracting Complex Numbers
- Multiplying Complex Numbers
- Conjugates and Division
- Quadratics with Complex Solutions
- The Complex Plane and Absolute Value
- Unit 6 Test: Complex Numbers
Unidad 7Polynomial Operations
How do the rules of arithmetic carry over to polynomials?
- Polynomial Vocabulary
- Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
- Multiplying Polynomials
- Special Products
- Sums and Differences of Cubes
- Factoring Higher-Degree Polynomials
- Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem
- Unit 7 Test: Polynomial Operations
Unidad 8Polynomial Division and the Remainder and Factor Theorems
How does dividing a polynomial reveal its factors?
- Dividing by a Monomial
- Polynomial Long Division
- Synthetic Division
- The Remainder Theorem
- The Factor Theorem
- Factoring Completely from One Zero
- Polynomial Identities
- Unit 8 Test: Polynomial Division and the Remainder and Factor Theorems
Unidad 9Zeros and Graphs of Polynomials
How can you sketch a polynomial's graph from its formula?
- End Behavior
- Zeros and x-Intercepts
- Multiplicity
- Turning Points and Sketching
- The Rational Root Theorem
- The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
- Writing a Polynomial from Its Zeros
- Polynomial Models
- Unit 9 Test: Zeros and Graphs of Polynomials
Unidad 10Rational Expressions
How do you work with fractions that have polynomials on top and bottom?
- Simplifying Rational Expressions
- Multiplying Rational Expressions
- Dividing Rational Expressions
- Least Common Denominators
- Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
- Complex Fractions
- Rewriting Rational Expressions by Division
- Unit 10 Test: Rational Expressions
Unidad 11Rational Functions and Equations
What happens to a function when its denominator gets close to zero?
- Inverse Variation
- The Reciprocal Function and Its Shifts
- Vertical Asymptotes and Holes
- Horizontal Asymptotes
- Putting a Rational Graph Together
- Solving Rational Equations
- Extraneous Solutions
- Work and Rate Problems
- Unit 11 Test: Rational Functions and Equations
Unidad 12Radicals and Rational Exponents
What does it mean to raise a number to a fractional power?
- nth Roots
- Rational Exponents
- Exponent Properties with Rational Exponents
- Simplifying Radicals
- Adding and Subtracting Radicals
- Multiplying Radicals and Rationalizing
- Radicals in the Real World
- Unit 12 Test: Radicals and Rational Exponents
Unidad 13Radical Functions, Equations and Inverses
How do you undo a function, and what can go wrong when you do?
- Square Root and Cube Root Functions
- Solving Radical Equations
- Extraneous Solutions in Radical Equations
- Equations with Rational Exponents
- Inverse Functions
- Verifying Inverses with Composition
- Restricting the Domain for an Inverse
- Unit 13 Test: Radical Functions, Equations and Inverses
Unidad 14Exponential Functions
Why do some quantities grow slowly at first and then explode?
- Exponential Growth
- Exponential Decay
- Graphs of Exponential Functions
- Growth Factors and Rates
- Compound Interest
- The Number e and Continuous Growth
- Comparing Linear, Quadratic and Exponential Models
- Unit 14 Test: Exponential Functions
Unidad 15Logarithms
How do you find the exponent you need?
- What Is a Logarithm?
- Common and Natural Logarithms
- Logarithmic Functions and Their Graphs
- Product and Quotient Properties
- The Power Property
- Expanding and Condensing Logarithms
- Change of Base
- Unit 15 Test: Logarithms
Unidad 16Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
How long until an investment doubles or a medicine wears off?
- Exponential Equations with a Common Base
- Solving Exponential Equations with Logarithms
- Solving Logarithmic Equations
- Doubling Time and Half-Life
- Logarithmic Scales
- Building Exponential Models from Data
- Solving Real-World Exponential Problems
- Unit 16 Test: Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
Unidad 17Sequences
How can a rule predict any term of a pattern without listing them all?
- Introduction to Sequences
- Recursive Formulas
- Arithmetic Sequences
- Geometric Sequences
- Switching Between Recursive and Explicit
- Sequences as Functions
- Modeling with Sequences
- Unit 17 Test: Sequences
Unidad 18Series
How can you add up hundreds of terms — or infinitely many — without adding them one by one?
- Series and Sigma Notation
- Arithmetic Series
- Finite Geometric Series
- Infinite Geometric Series
- Repeating Decimals as Series
- Loans and Savings Plans
- Applications of Series
- Unit 18 Test: Series
Unidad 19Angles, Radians and the Unit Circle
How can sine and cosine work for any angle, not just angles in a right triangle?
- Angles in Standard Position
- Radian Measure
- Arc Length
- Right-Triangle Trigonometry Review
- The Unit Circle
- Reference Angles and Quadrant Signs
- Trigonometric Functions of Any Angle
- Reciprocal Trigonometric Functions
- Unit 19 Test: Angles, Radians and the Unit Circle
Unidad 20Trigonometric Graphs and Identities
How do sine waves describe things that repeat, like tides, sound and Ferris wheels?
- Graphs of Sine and Cosine
- Amplitude and Midline
- Period and Frequency
- Horizontal Shifts
- Modeling Periodic Situations
- The Tangent Function
- The Pythagorean Identity
- Solving Basic Trigonometric Equations
- Unit 20 Test: Trigonometric Graphs and Identities
Unidad 21Normal Distributions
How can a bell-shaped curve tell you how unusual a result is?
- Center and Spread
- Shapes of Distributions
- The Normal Distribution
- The Empirical Rule
- z-Scores
- Normal Probabilities
- Percentiles and When Normal Doesn't Fit
- Unit 21 Test: Normal Distributions
Unidad 22Sampling, Experiments and Margin of Error
How can a few hundred people tell you what millions think — and when should you not trust the result?
- Populations, Samples and Parameters
- Sampling Methods and Bias
- Surveys, Observational Studies and Experiments
- Simulation and Sampling Variability
- Margin of Error
- Randomized Experiments
- Judging Data in the News
- Unit 22 Test: Sampling, Experiments and Margin of Error
Física
23 unidades · 157 lecciones · 23 pruebas de unidad · 180 días de clase
Unidad 1GRATISMeasurement and Units
How do physicists measure the world so that everyone gets the same answer?
- Why Physics Measures
- SI Units and Prefixes
- Scientific Notation
- Significant Figures
- Converting Units
- Graphs and Slope
- Accuracy, Precision and Error
- Unit 1 Test: Measurement and Units
Unidad 2Vectors
How do we combine quantities that have both a size and a direction?
- Scalars and Vectors
- Adding Vectors by Drawing
- Right-Angle Resultants
- Breaking Vectors into Components
- Adding Vectors with Components
- Relative Velocity
- Unit 2 Test: Vectors
Unidad 3Motion in One Dimension
How can we describe and predict where a moving object will be?
- Position, Distance and Displacement
- Speed and Velocity
- Position-Time Graphs
- Acceleration
- Velocity-Time Graphs
- Kinematic Equations
- The No-Time Equation
- Unit 3 Test: Motion in One Dimension
Unidad 4Free Fall
Why do all objects fall the same way when air doesn't get in the way?
- Gravity's Acceleration
- Dropping Objects
- Throwing Things Upward
- Maximum Height and Hang Time
- Air Resistance and Terminal Velocity
- Graphing Free Fall
- Unit 4 Test: Free Fall
Unidad 5Projectile Motion
How can we predict where a thrown, kicked or launched object will land?
- Motion in Two Dimensions
- Horizontal Launches
- How Far Does It Go?
- Launching at an Angle
- Time of Flight and Peak Height
- Range and Launch Angle
- Projectiles in Sport
- Unit 5 Test: Projectile Motion
Unidad 6Forces and Newton's First Law
Why do things keep moving, and what does it take to change their motion?
- What Is a Force?
- Kinds of Forces
- Free-Body Diagrams
- Net Force
- Inertia and the First Law
- Equilibrium
- Mass and Weight
- Unit 6 Test: Forces and Newton's First Law
Unidad 7Newton's Second and Third Laws
How does a net force change an object's motion, and why do forces always come in pairs?
- Force, Mass and Acceleration
- Solving F = ma Problems
- Forces at Angles
- Action-Reaction Pairs
- Apparent Weight in Elevators
- Connected Objects
- Putting Newton's Laws Together
- Unit 7 Test: Newton's Second and Third Laws
Unidad 8Friction and Inclines
Why is it harder to start something sliding than to keep it sliding, and how do slopes change the forces?
- Static and Kinetic Friction
- The Coefficient of Friction
- The Normal Force
- Friction Problems
- Inclined Planes
- Inclines with Friction
- Drag and Friction in the Real World
- Unit 8 Test: Friction and Inclines
Unidad 9Circular Motion
What force keeps an object moving in a circle, and what happens when it's missing?
- Uniform Circular Motion
- Period, Frequency and Speed
- Centripetal Acceleration
- Centripetal Force
- Cars on Curves
- Vertical Circles
- Rotation in Everyday Life
- Unit 9 Test: Circular Motion
Unidad 10Gravity and Orbits
How does one law of gravity explain falling apples, tides and orbiting satellites?
- Universal Gravitation
- The Inverse-Square Law
- Gravity on Other Worlds
- Gravitational Fields
- Satellites and Orbits
- Kepler's Laws
- Weightlessness
- Unit 10 Test: Gravity and Orbits
Unidad 11Work and Power
When does a force transfer energy, and how fast can it do it?
- What Counts as Work
- Work at an Angle
- Work Done by Varying Forces
- Power
- Power in Everyday Units
- Simple Machines
- Efficiency
- Unit 11 Test: Work and Power
Unidad 12Energy and Its Conservation
If energy can't be created or destroyed, where does it go?
- Kinetic Energy
- Gravitational Potential Energy
- Springs and Elastic Energy
- Conservation of Mechanical Energy
- Pendulums and Roller Coasters
- The Work-Energy Theorem
- Friction, Heat and Energy Transfer
- Unit 12 Test: Energy and Its Conservation
Unidad 13Momentum and Impulse
Why is a slow truck harder to stop than a fast baseball, and how do airbags save lives?
- Momentum
- Impulse
- Force-Time Graphs
- Designing for Safety
- Conservation of Momentum
- Recoil and Explosions
- Systems and Momentum
- Unit 13 Test: Momentum and Impulse
Unidad 14Collisions
What can momentum and energy tell us about what happened in a collision?
- Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Sticking Together
- Where Does the Energy Go?
- Elastic Collisions in One Dimension
- Collisions in Two Dimensions
- Analyzing Real Crashes
- Unit 14 Test: Collisions
Unidad 15Simple Harmonic Motion
Why do springs, swings and guitar strings all repeat their motion in the same way?
- Oscillations
- Hooke's Law and Restoring Forces
- Mass on a Spring
- The Simple Pendulum
- Energy in Oscillations
- Damping and Resonance
- Graphs of Oscillation
- Unit 15 Test: Simple Harmonic Motion
Unidad 16Waves
How does energy travel from place to place without any matter making the trip?
- What Is a Wave?
- Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
- Wave Speed, Frequency and Wavelength
- Waves at Boundaries
- Diffraction
- Interference and Superposition
- Standing Waves
- Unit 16 Test: Waves
Unidad 17Sound
How do vibrations become the music, voices and noises we hear?
- The Nature of Sound
- The Speed of Sound and Echoes
- Loudness and Decibels
- Pitch and Strings
- Pipes and Resonance
- The Doppler Effect and Beats
- Unit 17 Test: Sound
Unidad 18Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
What is light, and how do radio, microwaves, X-rays and visible light fit together?
- Light as a Wave
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Speed, Frequency and Wavelength of Light
- Photons
- Color
- Polarization
- EM Waves in Technology and Health
- Unit 18 Test: Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Unidad 19Optics: Mirrors and Lenses
How do mirrors and lenses bend and bounce light to form images?
- The Law of Reflection
- Curved Mirrors
- Refraction and Index of Refraction
- Snell's Law
- Total Internal Reflection
- Lenses and Ray Diagrams
- The Thin Lens Equation
- Unit 19 Test: Optics: Mirrors and Lenses
Unidad 20Electric Charge and Fields
What is electric charge, and how do charges push and pull on each other across empty space?
- Electric Charge
- Conductors, Insulators and Charging
- Coulomb's Law
- Electric Fields
- Electric Field Lines
- Electric Potential and Voltage
- Capacitors
- Unit 20 Test: Electric Charge and Fields
Unidad 21Electric Circuits
How do batteries, wires and devices work together to deliver energy where we need it?
- Electric Current
- Resistance
- Ohm's Law
- Electric Power and Energy
- Series Circuits
- Parallel Circuits
- Home Circuits and Safety
- Unit 21 Test: Electric Circuits
Unidad 22Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction
How are electricity and magnetism connected, and how does that connection power the world?
- Magnets and Magnetic Fields
- Magnetic Fields from Currents
- Magnetic Forces on Charges and Wires
- Electric Motors
- Electromagnetic Induction
- Generators
- Transformers and the Power Grid
- Unit 22 Test: Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction
Unidad 23Modern Physics
What happens to physics at the scale of atoms and at speeds near the speed of light?
- The Photoelectric Effect
- Atomic Spectra
- The Nucleus
- Radioactive Decay
- Half-Life
- Fission, Fusion and E = mc²
- Special Relativity
- Unit 23 Test: Modern Physics
Historia de los Estados Unidos
25 unidades · 155 lecciones · 25 pruebas de unidad · 180 días de clase
Unidad 1GRATISThinking Like a Historian
How do historians turn scattered evidence into a trustworthy account of the past?
- Primary and Secondary Sources
- Sourcing a Document
- Context Matters
- Corroborating Evidence
- Causes and Effects
- Interpretations and Perspective
- Unit 1 Test: Thinking Like a Historian
Unidad 2Colonial Foundations
How did contact among Native Americans, Europeans and Africans shape the English colonies?
- Native America and the Columbian Exchange
- The Chesapeake Colonies
- New England and the Puritans
- The Middle and Southern Colonies
- Slavery and the Atlantic World
- Colonial Self-Government and New Ideas
- Unit 2 Test: Colonial Foundations
Unidad 3The Road to Revolution
Why did loyal British colonists decide to break with Britain between 1763 and 1776?
- The French and Indian War
- The Stamp Act Crisis
- The Townshend Acts and the Boston Massacre
- From the Tea Party to Lexington
- Common Sense
- The Declaration of Independence
- Unit 3 Test: The Road to Revolution
Unidad 4The American Revolution
How did the colonists win independence, and who gained liberty from the Revolution?
- Patriots, Loyalists and the Undecided
- Turning Points of the War
- Victory and the Treaty of Paris
- Women and the Revolution
- African Americans and the Revolution
- Native Nations and the Revolution's Legacy
- Unit 4 Test: The American Revolution
Unidad 5Creating the Constitution
How did Americans design a government strong enough to rule but limited enough to protect liberty?
- The Articles of Confederation
- Shays' Rebellion and the Northwest Ordinance
- The Constitutional Convention
- Slavery and the Constitution
- Principles of the Constitution
- The Ratification Debate
- The Bill of Rights
- Unit 5 Test: Creating the Constitution
Unidad 6The Early Republic
How did the first leaders turn the Constitution into a working government?
- Washington and Hamilton's Plan
- The First Political Parties
- Foreign Affairs and the Farewell Address
- Adams, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and 1800
- Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
- The Marshall Court and the War of 1812
- Unit 6 Test: The Early Republic
Unidad 7Nationalism and the Age of Jackson
Did the Age of Jackson expand democracy, and for whom?
- The Era of Good Feelings and the Monroe Doctrine
- The Missouri Compromise
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Indian Removal
- The Nullification Crisis
- The Bank War and the Whigs
- Unit 7 Test: Nationalism and the Age of Jackson
Unidad 8Economy, Slavery and Reform
How did a changing economy deepen slavery in the South and spark reform movements in the North?
- The Market Revolution
- King Cotton and the Slave Economy
- Life and Resistance Under Slavery
- The Second Great Awakening and Reform
- Abolitionism
- The Women's Rights Movement
- Unit 8 Test: Economy, Slavery and Reform
Unidad 9Manifest Destiny
What drove the United States to expand to the Pacific, and what did expansion cost?
- The Idea of Manifest Destiny
- Texas
- Oregon and the Trails West
- The U.S.-Mexican War
- The Mexican Cession and the Gold Rush
- Immigration and Nativism
- Unit 9 Test: Manifest Destiny
Unidad 10The Road to Civil War
Why did compromise over slavery fail in the 1850s?
- The Compromise of 1850
- The Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Kansas-Nebraska and Bleeding Kansas
- The Republican Party and Dred Scott
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- John Brown and the Election of 1860
- Secession
- Unit 10 Test: The Road to Civil War
Unidad 11The Civil War
How did a war to save the Union become a war to end slavery?
- Fort Sumter and Choosing Sides
- Strategy and the Early War
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- African American Soldiers
- The Home Fronts
- Gettysburg and Vicksburg
- Total War and the End of the War
- Unit 11 Test: The Civil War
Unidad 12Reconstruction
What did freedom mean after slavery, and why did Reconstruction end before it secured equal rights?
- Plans for Reconstruction
- Freedom and the Freedmen's Bureau
- Radical Reconstruction and the Amendments
- Reconstruction Governments
- Sharecropping and the Southern Economy
- The End of Reconstruction
- Unit 12 Test: Reconstruction
Unidad 13The New South and the West
How did the nation's promises of freedom and opportunity play out in the South and the West after 1877?
- Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
- Washington, Du Bois and Wells
- Railroads and Western Settlement
- Wars on the Plains
- Assimilation Policy
- Mining, Ranching and the Frontier Thesis
- Unit 13 Test: The New South and the West
Unidad 14Industrialization
Who gained and who paid as the United States became the world's leading industrial power?
- Inventions and the Age of Steel
- Big Business
- The Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism
- Working Conditions
- Unions and Strikes
- Gilded Age Politics
- Unit 14 Test: Industrialization
Unidad 15Immigration and the Growth of Cities
How did immigrants and growing cities change American life, and how did Americans respond?
- The New Immigrants
- Chinese Exclusion and Nativism
- Cities and Tenements
- Political Machines
- Settlement Houses and Urban Reform
- Farmers and the Populists
- Unit 15 Test: Immigration and the Growth of Cities
Unidad 16America and the World
Should the United States have built an overseas empire?
- Why the U.S. Looked Overseas
- Hawaii
- The Spanish-American War
- The Philippines Debate
- The Open Door and East Asia
- Panama and the Roosevelt Corollary
- Unit 16 Test: America and the World
Unidad 17The Progressive Era
How did Progressives use government to fix the problems of industrial America, and whom did their reforms leave out?
- The Muckrakers
- Reform in the States
- Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal
- Taft, Wilson and Reform
- Women's Suffrage
- Race and the Limits of Progressivism
- Unit 17 Test: The Progressive Era
Unidad 18World War I
Why did the United States enter World War I, and how did the war change the nation?
- The War Begins and U.S. Neutrality
- The U.S. Enters the War
- Mobilizing the Home Front
- Civil Liberties in Wartime
- Americans in Combat and the Great Migration
- The Fourteen Points and the Treaty Fight
- Unit 18 Test: World War I
Unidad 19The 1920s
Was the 1920s an age of prosperity and freedom, or of fear and conflict?
- The Red Scare and Immigration Limits
- A Consumer Economy
- Politics of Normalcy
- Prohibition
- Cultural Conflict
- The Harlem Renaissance and the New Woman
- Unit 19 Test: The 1920s
Unidad 20The Great Depression and the New Deal
What caused the Great Depression, and how did the New Deal change the role of government?
- The Crash and Its Causes
- Life in the Depression
- Hoover's Response
- The First New Deal
- The Second New Deal
- Critics, the Court and the New Deal's Legacy
- Unit 20 Test: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Unidad 21World War II
How did World War II change the United States and its place in the world?
- The Road to War
- Pearl Harbor
- The Home Front
- Japanese American Incarceration
- The War in Europe
- The Holocaust
- The Pacific War and the Atomic Bomb
- Unit 21 Test: World War II
Unidad 22The Early Cold War
How did the rivalry with the Soviet Union shape American policy and society after 1945?
- Origins of the Cold War
- Containment and the Marshall Plan
- Berlin, NATO and the Arms Race
- The Korean War
- The Second Red Scare
- Postwar Society
- Unit 22 Test: The Early Cold War
Unidad 23The Civil Rights Movement
How did ordinary people and their leaders end legal segregation, and what work remained?
- Roots of the Movement
- Brown v. Board and Little Rock
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Sit-ins and Freedom Rides
- Birmingham and the March on Washington
- The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act
- Black Power and Widening Movements
- Unit 23 Test: The Civil Rights Movement
Unidad 24The 1960s and 1970s
Why did Americans' confidence in government rise in the early 1960s and fall by the late 1970s?
- Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Great Society
- The Vietnam War
- 1968 and the Antiwar Movement
- Nixon and Watergate
- The 1970s: Limits and Malaise
- Unit 24 Test: The 1960s and 1970s
Unidad 25From Reagan to Today
How have Americans debated the role of government and the nation's place in the world since 1980?
- The Conservative Resurgence
- The End of the Cold War
- The 1990s
- September 11 and the War on Terror
- The Great Recession and the Obama Years
- Recent Decades
- Unit 25 Test: From Reagan to Today
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