COURSE DESCRIPTION: The new curriculum focuses on the core and curricular competencies (listed below). Students will apply these competencies by analyzing the "Big Ideas" and the content that is prescribed.
Big Ideas:
Core Competencies:
Curricular Competencies:
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
REQUIRED SUPPLIES: Students are expected to come fully prepared each day with the following supplies: paper, pens, pencils, eraser, pencil crayons, glue stick, agenda.
ASSESSMENT: See "Assessment" tab on this site.
YEARLY OVERVIEW: This is a basic outline for the year, however it is always subject to change throughout the year.
Term 1
•Current Events
•Individual Past
•Archaeology
•Murder Mystery/Iceman
Term 2
•Current Events
•Steps to Civilization
•Mesopotamia
•Egypt
Term 3
•Current Events
•Individual Ancient Civilization Study
•Presentations
• Media Awareness
• Current Events
• Mapping
Review
Big Ideas:
- Geographic conditions shaped the emergence of civilizations.
- Religious and cultural practices that emerged during this period have endured and continue to influence people
- Increasingly complex societies required new systems of laws and government.
- Economic specialization and trade networks can lead to conflict and cooperation between societies.
Core Competencies:
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Communication
- Personal and Social Awareness and Responsibility
Curricular Competencies:
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
- Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
- Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments at particular times and places
- Identify what the creators of accounts, narratives, maps, or texts have determined is significant
- Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions
- Characterize different time periods in history, including periods of progress and decline, and identify key turning points that marked periods of change
- Determine which causes most influenced particular decisions, actions, or events, and assess their short- and long-term consequences
- Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events, and compare the values, worldviews, and beliefs of human cultures and societies in different times and places
- Make ethical judgments about past events, decisions, or actions, and assess the limitations of drawing direct lessons from the past
REQUIRED SUPPLIES: Students are expected to come fully prepared each day with the following supplies: paper, pens, pencils, eraser, pencil crayons, glue stick, agenda.
ASSESSMENT: See "Assessment" tab on this site.
YEARLY OVERVIEW: This is a basic outline for the year, however it is always subject to change throughout the year.
Term 1
•Current Events
•Individual Past
•Archaeology
•Murder Mystery/Iceman
Term 2
•Current Events
•Steps to Civilization
•Mesopotamia
•Egypt
Term 3
•Current Events
•Individual Ancient Civilization Study
•Presentations
• Media Awareness
• Current Events
• Mapping
Review