I am a graduate of Alcoa City Schools. I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Administration, Masters in Curriculum & Instruction, and Doctor of Philosophy in Education, Leadership, and Policy Studies all from the University of Tennessee.
I coordinate the AMS Jayteens, AMS Garden Club, and the AMS TCLUB rotating trips to Walt Disney World (Orlando, Florida), New York / Lancaster, PA, or Washington, D.C. I am honored to serve as the Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator for Alcoa Middle School.
In addition to my school responsibilities, I am the president of the Empty Pantry Fund (501C-3 organization) and serve as an Adjunct Professor at Carson Newman University.
Students and parents may reach out to me via email through this website's
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About Class
Social Studies Curriculum: Students are provided a notebook to complete when completing each lesson. We do not use a traditional textbook in this class; however, we will use a combination of the following: online textbook, books, document-based questions, youtube videos, web searches, lecture/discussion, and movies.
*When students are absent, they can access daily lessons on Google Classroom: go to CLASSWORK, look for the assignment for that day (date & day listed), and work through the lesson. On most days, the student will need to complete notes in their notebook, watch videos, and may have an assignment that goes along with the lesson.
Units of Study
Geography & Historian’s Toolkit
Colonial America (Chapter 1)
Location and Reasons Founded
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
The Spirit of Independence (Chapter 2)
No Taxation Without Representation
Declaration of Independence
The American Revolution (Chapter 3)
A More Perfect Union (Chapter 4)
Articles of Confederation
Forging a New Constitution
A New Plan of Government
The Constitution (Chapter 5)
Principles of the Constitution
Government and the People
The Federalist Era (Chapter 6)
President George Washington
Early Challenges
President John Adams
First Political Parties
The Jefferson Era (Chapter 7)
President Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase & Lewis and Clark
President James Madison
War of 1812
Growth and Expansion (Chapter 8)
President James Monroe
The Jackson Era (Chapter 9)
President John Quincy Adams
Jacksonian Democracy
President Andrew Jackson
Manifest Destiny (Chapter 10)
President James K. Polk
Mexican American War
North and South (Chapter 11)
The Spirit of Reform (Chapter 12)
Social Reform
Abolitionist Movement
Women’s Movement
Toward Civil War (Chapter 13)
President Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War (Chapter 14)
The Reconstruction Era
President Andrew Johnson
President Ulysses S. Grant
*Some Supreme Court Decisions spread throughout curriculum
