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Middle School History Focus is on the exploration of historical patterns and the influences that those patterns have on contemporary issues and behavior. Students investigate issues of power, oppression, and justice; the interconnectedness of geography, history, and patterns of human behavior; the importance of individual lives within societal contexts.
Grade Six Introduction to Grade Six History Ancient China Ancient Rome Resources: * World History: Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell * The Story of Ancient China, Suzanne Strauss Art * Mapping China with Big Maps, Primary Source * Guide for Teaching Ancient China, Primary Source * The Story of Ancient Rome, Suzanne Strauss Art *City, Macaulay * Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome, Adkins * |
Grade Seven * History Toolkit * Colonial and Revolutionary Period * Pilgrims and Puritans * Mayflower Compact * The Founding Documents * Articles of Confederation * Territorial Expansion and the Sectional Period * Manifest Destiny * Missouri Compromise * Kansas-Nebraska Act * The Civil War * Resources: A History of US, Hakim * We, the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Center for Civic Education * “Africans in America – Revolution: 1750-1805” (PBS)
Grade Eight * skills review (terminology, interpreting graphs and data tables, key features of U.S. government) * World War I: outbreak, experience, and effects * Europe after World War I * the Weimar Republic and the Great Depression * the Nazis’ rise to and consolidation of power * the Holocaust * study of Darfur * Resources: Facing History and Ourselves; Holocaust and Human Behavior * Digital History Project—European History Module 4: “The End of Optimism? The Great Depression in Europe” * United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: website and museum visit * |
