Several years ago, when the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks were revised, I decided to make my primarily chronological unit plan more thematic. So, instead of teaching 12+ units, I created four main units that encompassed all of the events typically taught in 11th grade history. This document is an overview of my first unit - The Real Democracy Experiment. Students brainstorm what it means to be American, examine the role of government in teens' lives, explore the issue of race post Civil Wa