units | historyofyourlife

This is a pre-9/11 world unit, which discusses child-rearing and global fears in a world before everyone became hyper-aware of the “constant threat of terrorism” and school violence preparedness. This unit discusses childbirth across time/the globe (compare/contrast), the coming of Y2K, and the role of America as a super power.

Birth to Kindergarten

This is an introductory unit to cover the basis of generational studies as well explaining how to look at modern history. The course is structured around the history of the past twenty years, but uses the lives of people in the past to show how events in our lives (and our perceptions of them) shape how we move forward.

Introduction to Generational Studies

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This unit follows two themes: How do we raise children in the modern world? How did we react to 9/11? Often those two themes overlap, just as key events in history have always shaped how we raise our offspring. This unit will look at how they were brought up, and how that differed from their parents and those around the world (past and present). It will also take time to look at the changes in the educational systems over time, as now their cohort is entering the school systems.

Elementary School

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This unit focuses on the roll of technology and testing on the lives of the students. How did technology change during their middle school years? Was it for the better? This unit also looks at the increasing roll of standardized testing on their lives and how that factored into their education (and where those tests came from).

Middle School

This unit makes them look at what has been going on around them while they’ve been in high school: What have they seen? What have they missed? It looks at the impact that the ongoing war on terror has had on a generation of teens, the perceived adult reaction to teens, and how the economic choices of their lifetimes came to fruition. The unit then compares these with teens from other eras (ex: Vietnam, The Roaring 20s, and the Great Depression) to show the similarities and differences between the generations.

High School

In this final unit, students will compare/contrast their lives with those who came before them (or who lives somewhere else contemporaneously) and present their project to the class. The final unit is discussion based, talking about the educated hypotheses that they can make about their futures, based upon those that came before them.

The Future