Social Studies

Curriculum

7th Grade Curriculum

Textbook: My World 7th Grade Colorado Edition textbook from Pearson Publishing.

The focus of this class is Eastern Hemisphere, World Geography, Civics, and Economics, using the following units:

Economics Unit--Money Matters packet--Personal Finance.
Introduction to Social Studies—Three Core Concept sections of the text.
Unit 1—Ancient Southwest Asia and Africa.
Unit 2—Modern Southwest Asia and Africa
Unit 3—Ancient South and East Asia.
Unit 4—Modern Asia.
Unit 5—Ancient Greece and Rome.
Unit 6—Changes in Europe.
Unit 7—Europe and Russia.
Unit 8—Australia and the Pacific.

8th Grade Curriculum

Textbook: The American Republic to 1877.

The emphasis for this class is US History from 1750-1877, including the conflict with Britain, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution, the War of 1812, Westward Expansion, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. We also focus on many aspects of economics, North American geography, and US Government. The course will be a comprehensive study of social studies from many different strands of the Colorado State Standards and the Core Knowledge Sequence.

Unit Two - Colonial Settlement
Unit Three - Creating a Nation
Unit Four - The New Republic
Unit Five - The Growing Nation
Unit Six - Civil War and Reconstruction

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