Hello!

Welcome to IB History of the Americas!

• This is the first year of a 2 year course of study and is designed to successfully  prepare students for paper 3 of the HL (higher level) IB History exam.
• Regardless of whether students  pursue the full IB diploma, Certificate test or choose not to take any IB tests, all students participate in the IB curriculum.
• As the title indicates, we are concerned with the major events that shaped the history of the Western Hemisphere.
• Units of study:
  • Introduction/Contact
  • Independence Movements in the Americas
  • Nation Building in the Americas
  • U.S. Civil War (Causes, Conflict, Reconstruction) (IB Unit)
  • Native American Struggles For Equality
  • U.S. Foreign Policy in the Americas 1890-1935
  • Mexican Revolution (IB Unit)
  • Great Depression in the Americas and New Deal (IB Unit)
  • Cuban Revolution
  • Civil/Human Rights in the Americas 1950’s to present, w/ heavy focus on 1954-1965

• Useful information (I hope)

I keep a daily blog, as you can see, that details what was done in class and has homework assignments. You can link to my blog from the Eugene IHS webpage at http://schools.4j.lane.edu/ihs/

Grades: I post grades as often as I can on Synergy. Sometimes this is very up-to-date, other times not.

Office Hours: By appointment before school, after school, 3rd Period

My email: hulings_k@4j.lane.edu

Welcome Senior Parents: 

• What is TOK?

This year, as IB learners your student will have an opportunity to step back from the subjects and materials of your courses to think critically about knowledge itself.  In addition to critically examining the knowledge obtained through traditional academic pursuits, students (Knowers) in Theory of Knowledge class will seek to make sense of the world and who they are in it.

We will seek to answer questions like:  What counts as knowledge?  How does it grow and what are its limits?  What is the value of knowledge?  Who owns knowledge? What are the implications of having or not having knowledge?

The TOK course is structured around the interplay between the:

Ways of Knowing: language, sense, perception, emotion, reason, imagination, faith, intuition, and memory, within specific branches of knowledge called:

Areas of Knowledge: natural sciences, human sciences, mathematics, ethics, history,the arts, religious knowledge systems, and indigenous knowledge systems.

IB Content: Of course, this is an IB class. Full IB candidates will complete 2 IB assessments in TOK class this year. These are: The TOK Essay and the TOK Presentation. We will begin formally preparing for these after the Winter Break. If your student is not an IB candidate, they will complete a TOK Presentation (possibly 2) and write an essay of similar format to the formal TOK Essay.

Useful information: 

• I keep a daily blog, as you can see, that details what was done in class and has homework assignments. You can link to my blog from the Eugene IHS webpage at http://schools.4j.lane.edu/ihs/My email: hulings_k@4j.lane.edu
• Questions?