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Grade 11 curriculum

A full 180-day school year in 4 courses: American Literature, Algebra 2, Physics and U.S. History. Every unit and lesson is listed below. Unit 1 of every course is free to try, and KidUniversity Plus unlocks the rest for your whole family.

  • 4 courses
  • 94 units
  • 626 lessons
  • 94 unit tests

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American Literature

24 units · 156 lessons · 24 unit tests · 180 school days

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Native American Oral Traditions

5 lessons + unit test

What did the first American stories teach, and how did they survive without being written down?
  1. Origin Stories: The World on the Turtle's Back
  2. Trickster Tales
  3. The Oral Tradition: Memory and Performance
  4. Oratory: Red Jacket's Reply (1805)
  5. Chief Joseph: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
  6. Unit 1 Test: Native American Oral Traditions
Unit 2

Puritan and Colonial Writing

6 lessons + unit test

How did faith, hardship, and a sense of mission shape the first English writing in America?
  1. Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation
  2. Winthrop: A City Upon a Hill
  3. Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
  4. Bradstreet: "Upon the Burning of Our House"
  5. Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
  6. The Puritan Worldview and Plain Style
  7. Unit 2 Test: Puritan and Colonial Writing
Unit 3

The Revolution: Reason and Revolt

7 lessons + unit test

How did American writers use reason and rhetoric to argue a nation into existence?
  1. Franklin's Autobiography: The Plan for Moral Perfection
  2. Poor Richard's Aphorisms
  3. Paine: Common Sense
  4. Paine: The American Crisis
  5. Henry: Speech to the Virginia Convention
  6. Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
  7. Voices Left Out: Abigail Adams and Phillis Wheatley
  8. Unit 3 Test: The Revolution: Reason and Revolt
Unit 4

Rhetorical Analysis Workshop

7 lessons + unit test

How do speakers and writers make choices that move an audience, and how do we explain those choices?
  1. The Rhetorical Situation
  2. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
  3. Rhetorical Devices: Repetition and Balance
  4. Diction, Tone, and Syntax
  5. Arguing From a Shared Text: Susan B. Anthony
  6. Allusion and Parody: The Declaration of Sentiments
  7. Writing a Rhetorical Analysis
  8. Unit 4 Test: Rhetorical Analysis Workshop
Unit 5

American Romanticism: Irving and Poe

7 lessons + unit test

Why did American writers turn from reason toward imagination, emotion, and the strange?
  1. What Was Romanticism?
  2. Irving: "Rip Van Winkle"
  3. Irving: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
  4. Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
  5. Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"
  6. Poe: "The Raven"
  7. Poe's Single Effect: "The Masque of the Red Death"
  8. Unit 5 Test: American Romanticism: Irving and Poe
Unit 6

Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau

7 lessons + unit test

What happens when a person trusts nature, intuition, and conscience over society's rules?
  1. What Was Transcendentalism?
  2. Emerson: "Self-Reliance"
  3. Emerson's Poetry: "Concord Hymn"
  4. Thoreau: Why I Went to the Woods
  5. Thoreau: Simplify
  6. Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience"
  7. Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Legacy
  8. Unit 6 Test: Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau
Unit 7

Dark Romanticism: Hawthorne and Melville

6 lessons + unit test

What do sin, secrecy, and obsession reveal about human nature?
  1. Dark Romanticism
  2. Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown"
  3. Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"
  4. The Scarlet Letter: The Prison Door
  5. The Scarlet Letter: Symbol and Character
  6. Melville: Ishmael, Ahab, and Bartleby
  7. Unit 7 Test: Dark Romanticism: Hawthorne and Melville
Unit 8

Emily Dickinson

6 lessons + unit test

How can a short poem, full of dashes and slant rhymes, hold enormous ideas about death, hope, and the self?
  1. Dickinson's Life and Style
  2. "Because I could not stop for Death"
  3. "Hope" is the thing with feathers
  4. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
  5. Paradox: "Much Madness" and "Success"
  6. "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –"
  7. Unit 8 Test: Emily Dickinson
Unit 9

Walt Whitman

6 lessons + unit test

How did Walt Whitman invent a new kind of poetry big enough to hold a whole democracy?
  1. Free Verse and the Catalog: "Song of Myself"
  2. "A child said What is the grass?"
  3. "I Hear America Singing"
  4. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
  5. Elegy: "O Captain! My Captain!"
  6. Dickinson and Whitman Compared
  7. Unit 9 Test: Walt Whitman
Unit 10

Slave Narratives and Abolition

7 lessons + unit test

How did formerly enslaved writers and abolitionists use words as weapons against slavery?
  1. The Slave Narrative as a Genre
  2. Douglass: Learning to Read
  3. Douglass: "How a Slave Was Made a Man"
  4. Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
  5. Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  6. Sojourner Truth: Two Versions of a Speech
  7. Abolitionist Rhetoric: Garrison and Lincoln
  8. Unit 10 Test: Slave Narratives and Abolition
Unit 11

Argument Writing Workshop

7 lessons + unit test

How do you build an argument that a skeptical reader has to take seriously?
  1. Claims: Arguable, Specific, Defensible
  2. Evidence and Reasoning
  3. Counterclaims and Rebuttals
  4. Logical Fallacies
  5. Organizing an Argument Essay
  6. Introductions and Conclusions
  7. Formal Style and Objective Tone
  8. Unit 11 Test: Argument Writing Workshop
Unit 12

Realism: Mark Twain

6 lessons + unit test

How did Mark Twain use humor, a boy's voice, and a river journey to tell hard truths about America?
  1. Realism and Regionalism
  2. Twain's Humor: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog"
  3. Huck Finn: Voice and Dialect
  4. Huck Finn: The Raft and the River
  5. Huck Finn: "All right, then, I'll go to hell"
  6. Satire: Twain's Targets
  7. Unit 12 Test: Realism: Mark Twain
Unit 13

Realism: Inner Lives and Hidden Truths

6 lessons + unit test

How did writers at the end of the 1800s reveal the hidden inner lives behind ordinary appearances?
  1. Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" and Situational Irony
  2. Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" — Imagery and Point of View
  3. Chopin: The Awakening
  4. Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" — The Narrator
  5. Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" — Symbol and Ending
  6. Bierce: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
  7. Unit 13 Test: Realism: Inner Lives and Hidden Truths
Unit 14

Naturalism: Crane and London

6 lessons + unit test

What happens to human pride when people face forces of nature far bigger than themselves?
  1. What Is Naturalism?
  2. Crane: "The Open Boat"
  3. Crane's Poems: "A Man Said to the Universe"
  4. Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
  5. London: "To Build a Fire" — Man Against Nature
  6. London: Instinct and the Dog
  7. Unit 14 Test: Naturalism: Crane and London
Unit 15

The Harlem Renaissance

7 lessons + unit test

How did Black writers of the early 1900s claim their own voice in American literature?
  1. Roots: Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
  2. Du Bois: Double Consciousness
  3. Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
  4. Hughes: "I, Too" and "Mother to Son"
  5. McKay: "If We Must Die"
  6. McKay: "America"
  7. Many Voices: Cullen and Hurston
  8. Unit 15 Test: The Harlem Renaissance
Unit 16

Modern Poetry: Frost and the Modernists

6 lessons + unit test

How did poets of the early 1900s "make it new" while still speaking to ordinary readers?
  1. Modernism: Make It New
  2. Frost: "The Road Not Taken"
  3. Frost: "Mending Wall"
  4. Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
  5. Frost: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "Fire and Ice"
  6. City Voices: Sandburg and Eliot
  7. Unit 16 Test: Modern Poetry: Frost and the Modernists
Unit 17

The Great Gatsby, Part 1

6 lessons + unit test

In the Jazz Age, what do wealth and glamour hide?
  1. Fitzgerald, the Jazz Age, and Nick Carraway
  2. Chapter 1: East Egg and the Green Light
  3. Chapter 2: The Valley of Ashes
  4. Chapter 3: Gatsby's Parties
  5. Meeting Gatsby: The Smile
  6. Setting as Symbol: The Eggs and the City
  7. Unit 17 Test: The Great Gatsby, Part 1
Unit 18

The Great Gatsby, Part 2

7 lessons + unit test

Can a person remake himself, and repeat the past, in pursuit of the American Dream?
  1. Chapters 4–5: Gatsby's Story and the Reunion
  2. Chapter 6: James Gatz and the Self-Made Man
  3. Chapter 7: The Plaza — "Her Voice Is Full of Money"
  4. Chapters 7–8: The Accident and Its Aftermath
  5. Chapters 8–9: "They Were Careless People"
  6. The Ending: Boats Against the Current
  7. Gatsby and the American Dream
  8. Unit 18 Test: The Great Gatsby, Part 2
Unit 19

The Research Essay

8 lessons + unit test

How do you turn a question into a well-supported, honestly sourced research essay?
  1. Asking a Research Question
  2. Finding and Evaluating Sources
  3. Primary and Secondary Sources
  4. Integrating Quotations
  5. Paraphrase, Summary, and Plagiarism
  6. MLA Citation Basics
  7. Synthesizing Sources
  8. Revising the Research Essay
  9. Unit 19 Test: The Research Essay
Unit 20

SAT/ACT Grammar: Sentence Boundaries and Punctuation

8 lessons + unit test

How do punctuation marks control where ideas begin, end, and connect?
  1. Fragments and Run-ons
  2. Comma Splices and How to Fix Them
  3. Semicolons and Colons
  4. Dashes and Nonessential Elements
  5. Commas: Introductory Elements and Lists
  6. Apostrophes and Possessives
  7. Unnecessary Commas
  8. Punctuation Mixed Practice
  9. Unit 20 Test: SAT/ACT Grammar: Sentence Boundaries and Punctuation
Unit 21

SAT/ACT Grammar: Agreement, Clarity and Style

8 lessons + unit test

How do agreement, precision, and concision make writing clear and correct?
  1. Subject–Verb Agreement
  2. Pronoun Agreement and Case
  3. Verb Tense and Consistency
  4. Modifier Placement
  5. Parallel Structure
  6. Concision and Redundancy
  7. Transitions
  8. Commonly Confused Words
  9. Unit 21 Test: SAT/ACT Grammar: Agreement, Clarity and Style
Unit 22

SAT/ACT Reading and Expression

7 lessons + unit test

What strategies help you read closely and revise precisely under test conditions?
  1. Words in Context
  2. Central Idea and Purpose
  3. Text Structure and Function
  4. Command of Evidence: Text and Data
  5. Paired Passages
  6. Rhetorical Synthesis: Using Notes
  7. Revising for Purpose: Add, Delete, Revise
  8. Unit 22 Test: SAT/ACT Reading and Expression
Unit 23

Year in Review: Beginnings to 1865

5 lessons + unit test

How did American literature change from its oral beginnings to the end of the Civil War?
  1. Review: Oral Traditions and Puritan Writing
  2. Review: The Revolution and Rhetoric
  3. Review: Irving, Poe, and Romanticism
  4. Review: Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics
  5. Review: Dickinson, Whitman, and Abolition
  6. Unit 23 Test: Year in Review: Beginnings to 1865
Unit 24

Year in Review: 1865 to 1929 and Skills

5 lessons + unit test

What have you learned about modern American literature, and how will you use your reading and writing skills?
  1. Review: Realism and Naturalism
  2. Review: Harlem Renaissance and Modern Poetry
  3. Review: The Great Gatsby
  4. Review: Argument, Research, and Analysis
  5. Review: Grammar for the SAT and ACT
  6. Unit 24 Test: Year in Review: 1865 to 1929 and Skills

Algebra 2

22 units · 158 lessons · 22 unit tests · 180 school days

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Functions and Their Graphs

7 lessons + unit test

How can one rule describe how one quantity depends on another?
  1. Relations and Functions
  2. Function Notation
  3. Domain and Range
  4. Reading Key Features of Graphs
  5. Average Rate of Change
  6. Piecewise and Absolute Value Functions
  7. Combining and Composing Functions
  8. Unit 1 Test: Functions and Their Graphs
Unit 2

Transformations of Functions

7 lessons + unit test

How do small changes to a formula move, flip and stretch its graph?
  1. Parent Functions
  2. Vertical and Horizontal Shifts
  3. Reflections
  4. Vertical Stretches and Compressions
  5. Horizontal Stretches and Compressions
  6. Combining Transformations
  7. Even and Odd Functions
  8. Unit 2 Test: Transformations of Functions
Unit 3

Systems of Equations in Two and Three Variables

7 lessons + unit test

How do you find the values that make several conditions true at once?
  1. Linear Systems in Two Variables
  2. Systems with a Line and a Parabola
  3. Systems of Linear Inequalities
  4. Equations in Three Variables
  5. Solving Three-Variable Systems by Elimination
  6. Special Cases in Three Variables
  7. Modeling with Three-Variable Systems
  8. Unit 3 Test: Systems of Equations
Unit 4

Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs

7 lessons + unit test

What can the shape of a parabola tell you about a real situation?
  1. Vertex Form
  2. Standard Form and the Axis of Symmetry
  3. Factored Form
  4. Converting Between Forms
  5. Maximum and Minimum Problems
  6. Writing Quadratic Functions
  7. Quadratic Inequalities
  8. Unit 4 Test: Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs
Unit 5

Solving Quadratic Equations

7 lessons + unit test

Which method is the fastest route to the solutions of a quadratic?
  1. Solving by Square Roots
  2. Solving by Factoring
  3. Completing the Square
  4. The Quadratic Formula
  5. The Discriminant
  6. Quadratic Models and Word Problems
  7. Equations in Quadratic Form
  8. Unit 5 Test: Solving Quadratic Equations
Unit 6

Complex Numbers

7 lessons + unit test

What happens when we allow the square root of a negative number?
  1. The Imaginary Unit i
  2. Powers of i
  3. Adding and Subtracting Complex Numbers
  4. Multiplying Complex Numbers
  5. Conjugates and Division
  6. Quadratics with Complex Solutions
  7. The Complex Plane and Absolute Value
  8. Unit 6 Test: Complex Numbers
Unit 7

Polynomial Operations

7 lessons + unit test

How do the rules of arithmetic carry over to polynomials?
  1. Polynomial Vocabulary
  2. Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
  3. Multiplying Polynomials
  4. Special Products
  5. Sums and Differences of Cubes
  6. Factoring Higher-Degree Polynomials
  7. Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem
  8. Unit 7 Test: Polynomial Operations
Unit 8

Polynomial Division and the Remainder and Factor Theorems

7 lessons + unit test

How does dividing a polynomial reveal its factors?
  1. Dividing by a Monomial
  2. Polynomial Long Division
  3. Synthetic Division
  4. The Remainder Theorem
  5. The Factor Theorem
  6. Factoring Completely from One Zero
  7. Polynomial Identities
  8. Unit 8 Test: Polynomial Division and the Remainder and Factor Theorems
Unit 9

Zeros and Graphs of Polynomials

8 lessons + unit test

How can you sketch a polynomial's graph from its formula?
  1. End Behavior
  2. Zeros and x-Intercepts
  3. Multiplicity
  4. Turning Points and Sketching
  5. The Rational Root Theorem
  6. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
  7. Writing a Polynomial from Its Zeros
  8. Polynomial Models
  9. Unit 9 Test: Zeros and Graphs of Polynomials
Unit 10

Rational Expressions

7 lessons + unit test

How do you work with fractions that have polynomials on top and bottom?
  1. Simplifying Rational Expressions
  2. Multiplying Rational Expressions
  3. Dividing Rational Expressions
  4. Least Common Denominators
  5. Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
  6. Complex Fractions
  7. Rewriting Rational Expressions by Division
  8. Unit 10 Test: Rational Expressions
Unit 11

Rational Functions and Equations

8 lessons + unit test

What happens to a function when its denominator gets close to zero?
  1. Inverse Variation
  2. The Reciprocal Function and Its Shifts
  3. Vertical Asymptotes and Holes
  4. Horizontal Asymptotes
  5. Putting a Rational Graph Together
  6. Solving Rational Equations
  7. Extraneous Solutions
  8. Work and Rate Problems
  9. Unit 11 Test: Rational Functions and Equations
Unit 12

Radicals and Rational Exponents

7 lessons + unit test

What does it mean to raise a number to a fractional power?
  1. nth Roots
  2. Rational Exponents
  3. Exponent Properties with Rational Exponents
  4. Simplifying Radicals
  5. Adding and Subtracting Radicals
  6. Multiplying Radicals and Rationalizing
  7. Radicals in the Real World
  8. Unit 12 Test: Radicals and Rational Exponents
Unit 13

Radical Functions, Equations and Inverses

7 lessons + unit test

How do you undo a function, and what can go wrong when you do?
  1. Square Root and Cube Root Functions
  2. Solving Radical Equations
  3. Extraneous Solutions in Radical Equations
  4. Equations with Rational Exponents
  5. Inverse Functions
  6. Verifying Inverses with Composition
  7. Restricting the Domain for an Inverse
  8. Unit 13 Test: Radical Functions, Equations and Inverses
Unit 14

Exponential Functions

7 lessons + unit test

Why do some quantities grow slowly at first and then explode?
  1. Exponential Growth
  2. Exponential Decay
  3. Graphs of Exponential Functions
  4. Growth Factors and Rates
  5. Compound Interest
  6. The Number e and Continuous Growth
  7. Comparing Linear, Quadratic and Exponential Models
  8. Unit 14 Test: Exponential Functions
Unit 15

Logarithms

7 lessons + unit test

How do you find the exponent you need?
  1. What Is a Logarithm?
  2. Common and Natural Logarithms
  3. Logarithmic Functions and Their Graphs
  4. Product and Quotient Properties
  5. The Power Property
  6. Expanding and Condensing Logarithms
  7. Change of Base
  8. Unit 15 Test: Logarithms
Unit 16

Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

7 lessons + unit test

How long until an investment doubles or a medicine wears off?
  1. Exponential Equations with a Common Base
  2. Solving Exponential Equations with Logarithms
  3. Solving Logarithmic Equations
  4. Doubling Time and Half-Life
  5. Logarithmic Scales
  6. Building Exponential Models from Data
  7. Solving Real-World Exponential Problems
  8. Unit 16 Test: Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
Unit 17

Sequences

7 lessons + unit test

How can a rule predict any term of a pattern without listing them all?
  1. Introduction to Sequences
  2. Recursive Formulas
  3. Arithmetic Sequences
  4. Geometric Sequences
  5. Switching Between Recursive and Explicit
  6. Sequences as Functions
  7. Modeling with Sequences
  8. Unit 17 Test: Sequences
Unit 18

Series

7 lessons + unit test

How can you add up hundreds of terms — or infinitely many — without adding them one by one?
  1. Series and Sigma Notation
  2. Arithmetic Series
  3. Finite Geometric Series
  4. Infinite Geometric Series
  5. Repeating Decimals as Series
  6. Loans and Savings Plans
  7. Applications of Series
  8. Unit 18 Test: Series
Unit 19

Angles, Radians and the Unit Circle

8 lessons + unit test

How can sine and cosine work for any angle, not just angles in a right triangle?
  1. Angles in Standard Position
  2. Radian Measure
  3. Arc Length
  4. Right-Triangle Trigonometry Review
  5. The Unit Circle
  6. Reference Angles and Quadrant Signs
  7. Trigonometric Functions of Any Angle
  8. Reciprocal Trigonometric Functions
  9. Unit 19 Test: Angles, Radians and the Unit Circle
Unit 20

Trigonometric Graphs and Identities

8 lessons + unit test

How do sine waves describe things that repeat, like tides, sound and Ferris wheels?
  1. Graphs of Sine and Cosine
  2. Amplitude and Midline
  3. Period and Frequency
  4. Horizontal Shifts
  5. Modeling Periodic Situations
  6. The Tangent Function
  7. The Pythagorean Identity
  8. Solving Basic Trigonometric Equations
  9. Unit 20 Test: Trigonometric Graphs and Identities
Unit 21

Normal Distributions

7 lessons + unit test

How can a bell-shaped curve tell you how unusual a result is?
  1. Center and Spread
  2. Shapes of Distributions
  3. The Normal Distribution
  4. The Empirical Rule
  5. z-Scores
  6. Normal Probabilities
  7. Percentiles and When Normal Doesn't Fit
  8. Unit 21 Test: Normal Distributions
Unit 22

Sampling, Experiments and Margin of Error

7 lessons + unit test

How can a few hundred people tell you what millions think — and when should you not trust the result?
  1. Populations, Samples and Parameters
  2. Sampling Methods and Bias
  3. Surveys, Observational Studies and Experiments
  4. Simulation and Sampling Variability
  5. Margin of Error
  6. Randomized Experiments
  7. Judging Data in the News
  8. Unit 22 Test: Sampling, Experiments and Margin of Error

Physics

23 units · 157 lessons · 23 unit tests · 180 school days

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Measurement and Units

7 lessons + unit test

How do physicists measure the world so that everyone gets the same answer?
  1. Why Physics Measures
  2. SI Units and Prefixes
  3. Scientific Notation
  4. Significant Figures
  5. Converting Units
  6. Graphs and Slope
  7. Accuracy, Precision and Error
  8. Unit 1 Test: Measurement and Units
Unit 2

Vectors

6 lessons + unit test

How do we combine quantities that have both a size and a direction?
  1. Scalars and Vectors
  2. Adding Vectors by Drawing
  3. Right-Angle Resultants
  4. Breaking Vectors into Components
  5. Adding Vectors with Components
  6. Relative Velocity
  7. Unit 2 Test: Vectors
Unit 3

Motion in One Dimension

7 lessons + unit test

How can we describe and predict where a moving object will be?
  1. Position, Distance and Displacement
  2. Speed and Velocity
  3. Position-Time Graphs
  4. Acceleration
  5. Velocity-Time Graphs
  6. Kinematic Equations
  7. The No-Time Equation
  8. Unit 3 Test: Motion in One Dimension
Unit 4

Free Fall

6 lessons + unit test

Why do all objects fall the same way when air doesn't get in the way?
  1. Gravity's Acceleration
  2. Dropping Objects
  3. Throwing Things Upward
  4. Maximum Height and Hang Time
  5. Air Resistance and Terminal Velocity
  6. Graphing Free Fall
  7. Unit 4 Test: Free Fall
Unit 5

Projectile Motion

7 lessons + unit test

How can we predict where a thrown, kicked or launched object will land?
  1. Motion in Two Dimensions
  2. Horizontal Launches
  3. How Far Does It Go?
  4. Launching at an Angle
  5. Time of Flight and Peak Height
  6. Range and Launch Angle
  7. Projectiles in Sport
  8. Unit 5 Test: Projectile Motion
Unit 6

Forces and Newton's First Law

7 lessons + unit test

Why do things keep moving, and what does it take to change their motion?
  1. What Is a Force?
  2. Kinds of Forces
  3. Free-Body Diagrams
  4. Net Force
  5. Inertia and the First Law
  6. Equilibrium
  7. Mass and Weight
  8. Unit 6 Test: Forces and Newton's First Law
Unit 7

Newton's Second and Third Laws

7 lessons + unit test

How does a net force change an object's motion, and why do forces always come in pairs?
  1. Force, Mass and Acceleration
  2. Solving F = ma Problems
  3. Forces at Angles
  4. Action-Reaction Pairs
  5. Apparent Weight in Elevators
  6. Connected Objects
  7. Putting Newton's Laws Together
  8. Unit 7 Test: Newton's Second and Third Laws
Unit 8

Friction and Inclines

7 lessons + unit test

Why is it harder to start something sliding than to keep it sliding, and how do slopes change the forces?
  1. Static and Kinetic Friction
  2. The Coefficient of Friction
  3. The Normal Force
  4. Friction Problems
  5. Inclined Planes
  6. Inclines with Friction
  7. Drag and Friction in the Real World
  8. Unit 8 Test: Friction and Inclines
Unit 9

Circular Motion

7 lessons + unit test

What force keeps an object moving in a circle, and what happens when it's missing?
  1. Uniform Circular Motion
  2. Period, Frequency and Speed
  3. Centripetal Acceleration
  4. Centripetal Force
  5. Cars on Curves
  6. Vertical Circles
  7. Rotation in Everyday Life
  8. Unit 9 Test: Circular Motion
Unit 10

Gravity and Orbits

7 lessons + unit test

How does one law of gravity explain falling apples, tides and orbiting satellites?
  1. Universal Gravitation
  2. The Inverse-Square Law
  3. Gravity on Other Worlds
  4. Gravitational Fields
  5. Satellites and Orbits
  6. Kepler's Laws
  7. Weightlessness
  8. Unit 10 Test: Gravity and Orbits
Unit 11

Work and Power

7 lessons + unit test

When does a force transfer energy, and how fast can it do it?
  1. What Counts as Work
  2. Work at an Angle
  3. Work Done by Varying Forces
  4. Power
  5. Power in Everyday Units
  6. Simple Machines
  7. Efficiency
  8. Unit 11 Test: Work and Power
Unit 12

Energy and Its Conservation

7 lessons + unit test

If energy can't be created or destroyed, where does it go?
  1. Kinetic Energy
  2. Gravitational Potential Energy
  3. Springs and Elastic Energy
  4. Conservation of Mechanical Energy
  5. Pendulums and Roller Coasters
  6. The Work-Energy Theorem
  7. Friction, Heat and Energy Transfer
  8. Unit 12 Test: Energy and Its Conservation
Unit 13

Momentum and Impulse

7 lessons + unit test

Why is a slow truck harder to stop than a fast baseball, and how do airbags save lives?
  1. Momentum
  2. Impulse
  3. Force-Time Graphs
  4. Designing for Safety
  5. Conservation of Momentum
  6. Recoil and Explosions
  7. Systems and Momentum
  8. Unit 13 Test: Momentum and Impulse
Unit 14

Collisions

6 lessons + unit test

What can momentum and energy tell us about what happened in a collision?
  1. Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
  2. Sticking Together
  3. Where Does the Energy Go?
  4. Elastic Collisions in One Dimension
  5. Collisions in Two Dimensions
  6. Analyzing Real Crashes
  7. Unit 14 Test: Collisions
Unit 15

Simple Harmonic Motion

7 lessons + unit test

Why do springs, swings and guitar strings all repeat their motion in the same way?
  1. Oscillations
  2. Hooke's Law and Restoring Forces
  3. Mass on a Spring
  4. The Simple Pendulum
  5. Energy in Oscillations
  6. Damping and Resonance
  7. Graphs of Oscillation
  8. Unit 15 Test: Simple Harmonic Motion
Unit 16

Waves

7 lessons + unit test

How does energy travel from place to place without any matter making the trip?
  1. What Is a Wave?
  2. Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
  3. Wave Speed, Frequency and Wavelength
  4. Waves at Boundaries
  5. Diffraction
  6. Interference and Superposition
  7. Standing Waves
  8. Unit 16 Test: Waves
Unit 17

Sound

6 lessons + unit test

How do vibrations become the music, voices and noises we hear?
  1. The Nature of Sound
  2. The Speed of Sound and Echoes
  3. Loudness and Decibels
  4. Pitch and Strings
  5. Pipes and Resonance
  6. The Doppler Effect and Beats
  7. Unit 17 Test: Sound
Unit 18

Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum

7 lessons + unit test

What is light, and how do radio, microwaves, X-rays and visible light fit together?
  1. Light as a Wave
  2. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
  3. Speed, Frequency and Wavelength of Light
  4. Photons
  5. Color
  6. Polarization
  7. EM Waves in Technology and Health
  8. Unit 18 Test: Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Unit 19

Optics: Mirrors and Lenses

7 lessons + unit test

How do mirrors and lenses bend and bounce light to form images?
  1. The Law of Reflection
  2. Curved Mirrors
  3. Refraction and Index of Refraction
  4. Snell's Law
  5. Total Internal Reflection
  6. Lenses and Ray Diagrams
  7. The Thin Lens Equation
  8. Unit 19 Test: Optics: Mirrors and Lenses
Unit 20

Electric Charge and Fields

7 lessons + unit test

What is electric charge, and how do charges push and pull on each other across empty space?
  1. Electric Charge
  2. Conductors, Insulators and Charging
  3. Coulomb's Law
  4. Electric Fields
  5. Electric Field Lines
  6. Electric Potential and Voltage
  7. Capacitors
  8. Unit 20 Test: Electric Charge and Fields
Unit 21

Electric Circuits

7 lessons + unit test

How do batteries, wires and devices work together to deliver energy where we need it?
  1. Electric Current
  2. Resistance
  3. Ohm's Law
  4. Electric Power and Energy
  5. Series Circuits
  6. Parallel Circuits
  7. Home Circuits and Safety
  8. Unit 21 Test: Electric Circuits
Unit 22

Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

7 lessons + unit test

How are electricity and magnetism connected, and how does that connection power the world?
  1. Magnets and Magnetic Fields
  2. Magnetic Fields from Currents
  3. Magnetic Forces on Charges and Wires
  4. Electric Motors
  5. Electromagnetic Induction
  6. Generators
  7. Transformers and the Power Grid
  8. Unit 22 Test: Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction
Unit 23

Modern Physics

7 lessons + unit test

What happens to physics at the scale of atoms and at speeds near the speed of light?
  1. The Photoelectric Effect
  2. Atomic Spectra
  3. The Nucleus
  4. Radioactive Decay
  5. Half-Life
  6. Fission, Fusion and E = mc²
  7. Special Relativity
  8. Unit 23 Test: Modern Physics

U.S. History

25 units · 155 lessons · 25 unit tests · 180 school days

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Thinking Like a Historian

6 lessons + unit test

How do historians turn scattered evidence into a trustworthy account of the past?
  1. Primary and Secondary Sources
  2. Sourcing a Document
  3. Context Matters
  4. Corroborating Evidence
  5. Causes and Effects
  6. Interpretations and Perspective
  7. Unit 1 Test: Thinking Like a Historian
Unit 2

Colonial Foundations

6 lessons + unit test

How did contact among Native Americans, Europeans and Africans shape the English colonies?
  1. Native America and the Columbian Exchange
  2. The Chesapeake Colonies
  3. New England and the Puritans
  4. The Middle and Southern Colonies
  5. Slavery and the Atlantic World
  6. Colonial Self-Government and New Ideas
  7. Unit 2 Test: Colonial Foundations
Unit 3

The Road to Revolution

6 lessons + unit test

Why did loyal British colonists decide to break with Britain between 1763 and 1776?
  1. The French and Indian War
  2. The Stamp Act Crisis
  3. The Townshend Acts and the Boston Massacre
  4. From the Tea Party to Lexington
  5. Common Sense
  6. The Declaration of Independence
  7. Unit 3 Test: The Road to Revolution
Unit 4

The American Revolution

6 lessons + unit test

How did the colonists win independence, and who gained liberty from the Revolution?
  1. Patriots, Loyalists and the Undecided
  2. Turning Points of the War
  3. Victory and the Treaty of Paris
  4. Women and the Revolution
  5. African Americans and the Revolution
  6. Native Nations and the Revolution's Legacy
  7. Unit 4 Test: The American Revolution
Unit 5

Creating the Constitution

7 lessons + unit test

How did Americans design a government strong enough to rule but limited enough to protect liberty?
  1. The Articles of Confederation
  2. Shays' Rebellion and the Northwest Ordinance
  3. The Constitutional Convention
  4. Slavery and the Constitution
  5. Principles of the Constitution
  6. The Ratification Debate
  7. The Bill of Rights
  8. Unit 5 Test: Creating the Constitution
Unit 6

The Early Republic

6 lessons + unit test

How did the first leaders turn the Constitution into a working government?
  1. Washington and Hamilton's Plan
  2. The First Political Parties
  3. Foreign Affairs and the Farewell Address
  4. Adams, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and 1800
  5. Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
  6. The Marshall Court and the War of 1812
  7. Unit 6 Test: The Early Republic
Unit 7

Nationalism and the Age of Jackson

6 lessons + unit test

Did the Age of Jackson expand democracy, and for whom?
  1. The Era of Good Feelings and the Monroe Doctrine
  2. The Missouri Compromise
  3. Jacksonian Democracy
  4. Indian Removal
  5. The Nullification Crisis
  6. The Bank War and the Whigs
  7. Unit 7 Test: Nationalism and the Age of Jackson
Unit 8

Economy, Slavery and Reform

6 lessons + unit test

How did a changing economy deepen slavery in the South and spark reform movements in the North?
  1. The Market Revolution
  2. King Cotton and the Slave Economy
  3. Life and Resistance Under Slavery
  4. The Second Great Awakening and Reform
  5. Abolitionism
  6. The Women's Rights Movement
  7. Unit 8 Test: Economy, Slavery and Reform
Unit 9

Manifest Destiny

6 lessons + unit test

What drove the United States to expand to the Pacific, and what did expansion cost?
  1. The Idea of Manifest Destiny
  2. Texas
  3. Oregon and the Trails West
  4. The U.S.-Mexican War
  5. The Mexican Cession and the Gold Rush
  6. Immigration and Nativism
  7. Unit 9 Test: Manifest Destiny
Unit 10

The Road to Civil War

7 lessons + unit test

Why did compromise over slavery fail in the 1850s?
  1. The Compromise of 1850
  2. The Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
  3. Kansas-Nebraska and Bleeding Kansas
  4. The Republican Party and Dred Scott
  5. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  6. John Brown and the Election of 1860
  7. Secession
  8. Unit 10 Test: The Road to Civil War
Unit 11

The Civil War

7 lessons + unit test

How did a war to save the Union become a war to end slavery?
  1. Fort Sumter and Choosing Sides
  2. Strategy and the Early War
  3. The Emancipation Proclamation
  4. African American Soldiers
  5. The Home Fronts
  6. Gettysburg and Vicksburg
  7. Total War and the End of the War
  8. Unit 11 Test: The Civil War
Unit 12

Reconstruction

6 lessons + unit test

What did freedom mean after slavery, and why did Reconstruction end before it secured equal rights?
  1. Plans for Reconstruction
  2. Freedom and the Freedmen's Bureau
  3. Radical Reconstruction and the Amendments
  4. Reconstruction Governments
  5. Sharecropping and the Southern Economy
  6. The End of Reconstruction
  7. Unit 12 Test: Reconstruction
Unit 13

The New South and the West

6 lessons + unit test

How did the nation's promises of freedom and opportunity play out in the South and the West after 1877?
  1. Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
  2. Washington, Du Bois and Wells
  3. Railroads and Western Settlement
  4. Wars on the Plains
  5. Assimilation Policy
  6. Mining, Ranching and the Frontier Thesis
  7. Unit 13 Test: The New South and the West
Unit 14

Industrialization

6 lessons + unit test

Who gained and who paid as the United States became the world's leading industrial power?
  1. Inventions and the Age of Steel
  2. Big Business
  3. The Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism
  4. Working Conditions
  5. Unions and Strikes
  6. Gilded Age Politics
  7. Unit 14 Test: Industrialization
Unit 15

Immigration and the Growth of Cities

6 lessons + unit test

How did immigrants and growing cities change American life, and how did Americans respond?
  1. The New Immigrants
  2. Chinese Exclusion and Nativism
  3. Cities and Tenements
  4. Political Machines
  5. Settlement Houses and Urban Reform
  6. Farmers and the Populists
  7. Unit 15 Test: Immigration and the Growth of Cities
Unit 16

America and the World

6 lessons + unit test

Should the United States have built an overseas empire?
  1. Why the U.S. Looked Overseas
  2. Hawaii
  3. The Spanish-American War
  4. The Philippines Debate
  5. The Open Door and East Asia
  6. Panama and the Roosevelt Corollary
  7. Unit 16 Test: America and the World
Unit 17

The Progressive Era

6 lessons + unit test

How did Progressives use government to fix the problems of industrial America, and whom did their reforms leave out?
  1. The Muckrakers
  2. Reform in the States
  3. Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal
  4. Taft, Wilson and Reform
  5. Women's Suffrage
  6. Race and the Limits of Progressivism
  7. Unit 17 Test: The Progressive Era
Unit 18

World War I

6 lessons + unit test

Why did the United States enter World War I, and how did the war change the nation?
  1. The War Begins and U.S. Neutrality
  2. The U.S. Enters the War
  3. Mobilizing the Home Front
  4. Civil Liberties in Wartime
  5. Americans in Combat and the Great Migration
  6. The Fourteen Points and the Treaty Fight
  7. Unit 18 Test: World War I
Unit 19

The 1920s

6 lessons + unit test

Was the 1920s an age of prosperity and freedom, or of fear and conflict?
  1. The Red Scare and Immigration Limits
  2. A Consumer Economy
  3. Politics of Normalcy
  4. Prohibition
  5. Cultural Conflict
  6. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Woman
  7. Unit 19 Test: The 1920s
Unit 20

The Great Depression and the New Deal

6 lessons + unit test

What caused the Great Depression, and how did the New Deal change the role of government?
  1. The Crash and Its Causes
  2. Life in the Depression
  3. Hoover's Response
  4. The First New Deal
  5. The Second New Deal
  6. Critics, the Court and the New Deal's Legacy
  7. Unit 20 Test: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Unit 21

World War II

7 lessons + unit test

How did World War II change the United States and its place in the world?
  1. The Road to War
  2. Pearl Harbor
  3. The Home Front
  4. Japanese American Incarceration
  5. The War in Europe
  6. The Holocaust
  7. The Pacific War and the Atomic Bomb
  8. Unit 21 Test: World War II
Unit 22

The Early Cold War

6 lessons + unit test

How did the rivalry with the Soviet Union shape American policy and society after 1945?
  1. Origins of the Cold War
  2. Containment and the Marshall Plan
  3. Berlin, NATO and the Arms Race
  4. The Korean War
  5. The Second Red Scare
  6. Postwar Society
  7. Unit 22 Test: The Early Cold War
Unit 23

The Civil Rights Movement

7 lessons + unit test

How did ordinary people and their leaders end legal segregation, and what work remained?
  1. Roots of the Movement
  2. Brown v. Board and Little Rock
  3. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
  4. Sit-ins and Freedom Rides
  5. Birmingham and the March on Washington
  6. The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act
  7. Black Power and Widening Movements
  8. Unit 23 Test: The Civil Rights Movement
Unit 24

The 1960s and 1970s

6 lessons + unit test

Why did Americans' confidence in government rise in the early 1960s and fall by the late 1970s?
  1. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
  2. The Great Society
  3. The Vietnam War
  4. 1968 and the Antiwar Movement
  5. Nixon and Watergate
  6. The 1970s: Limits and Malaise
  7. Unit 24 Test: The 1960s and 1970s
Unit 25

From Reagan to Today

6 lessons + unit test

How have Americans debated the role of government and the nation's place in the world since 1980?
  1. The Conservative Resurgence
  2. The End of the Cold War
  3. The 1990s
  4. September 11 and the War on Terror
  5. The Great Recession and the Obama Years
  6. Recent Decades
  7. Unit 25 Test: From Reagan to Today

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