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History Department Course Descriptions |
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7th Grade World History
Text: Across the Centuries, Houghton Mifflin Social Studies, 1994.
The students study the history of each continent from 600 AD through 2000 AD. Each unit involves a project designed using the different learning models. Students are required to correctly identify, label and draw each country on the continent at the beginning of each unit.
8th Grade United States History
Text: The Story of America, Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1991.
The students study the history of America beginning with the Iroquois Indians and concluding with the reconstruction of the southern states. Students participate in units about the Colonial period of time, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian periods, the causes of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the Holocaust. The students write an interdisciplinary research paper and travel to Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and New York.
Cultural History and Geography 9
Text: World History, Connections to Today, Prentice Hall.
This class examines major events in History from the birth of civilization through the modern era, covering the key geographic area of Asia, the Americas and Oceania.
World History 10
Texts: World History: Connections to Today, Prentice Hall
This is a survey course of European and modern history. Aside from learning about the events that have shaped history, we will also learn how to use critical thinking skills, something that can be applied to every area of life, and not just history.
U.S. History
Text: The United States, A History of the Republic, Prentice Hall.
This course covers America’s history from the age of Discovery to Modern America. This course deals with several important themes: the growth of national unity; the diversity of the population; and the development of a democratic institution.
AP US History
Text: The American Pageant, by Thomas Bailey; American Political Traditions, by Richard Hofstadter.
This course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials—their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance —and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This course should thus develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
American Government 12
Text: Continuity and Chance, Prentice Hall.
This course is an overview of the inner workings of the government in America. It explores the roots and the foundational federal system and how each component works together in a representative democracy. This course emphasizes the importance of being civically minded.
AP Government
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In this course students will pursue a deeper understanding of the institutions of American Government. They will do an in-depth study of the system of government in the world today and analyze the life and changing interpretations of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the current state of the legislative, executive and judiciary branches of government. An emphasis is placed on analyzing the relationship among federal, state, and local governments, and on the court cases that built our system. This course will create civic literacy as students prepare to vote, participate in community activities and assume the responsibilities of citizenship, and prepare students for the AP Government exam.
Economics
Text: Economics: Principles and Practices, Glencoe.
This course will study how people choose from the limited resources to meet their needs and wants. This course will also examine the framework of Business in America.
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