Call to Freedom  (Holt, Rinehart, Winston) is the textboook for grades 7 and 8

Regular Current Events assignements will be part of the 7th and 8th grade curriculums

 

7th GRADE

* Orientation/Policies &Procedures/Geography Review 

* American Revolution 

* Foundations of the U.S. Constitution 

* Introduction to the U.S. government 

* Growth of  the United States/ U.S. Geography

* World War I/ European Geoegraphy 

* The Roaring Twenties 

* The Great Depression 

8th GRADE

Orientation/ Policy & Procedures/ Geography Review

* Slavery Era

* The Civil War

*  Reconstruction and New Freedoms

* Jim Crow South and Segregation

* Early Civil Rights Movement

* Women's History

Native American History

*  Novel (The Glory Field), read throughout first trimester

 

 *  Russian Geography/ Russian Revolutions/ Stalin

 *  World War II, The Holocaust, novels (Night and I Have Lived a Thousand Years)

      Spring trip to the Holocaust Museum

MLK and Later Civil rtights Movements

 *  The Beginning of the Nuclear Age

 *  President Kennedy and the Cuban mIssile Crisis

 *  Vietnam War

 *   Fall of the Soviet Unioin