8th grade curriculum orientation for wed feb 9

21st Century Social Studies9th Grade Orientation

Steven Maher, Social Studies Supervisor

…not your parent’s Social Studies

21st Century Social Studies

Social Studies Curriculum Sequence

US History and World Studies

Electives

Course Levels

What you can do to help your child

What Social Studies was for us

“Learning”MemorizationRememberingRepeating

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“Learning”

AccessingInterpretingManipulatingCommunicating

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Social Studies Core Curriculum Sequence

US History I

9th Grade

US History II World Studies

10th Grade 11th Grade• Concepts US History I• US History I• Honors US History I

• Concepts US History II• US History II• AP US History II

• Concepts World Studies• World Studies• AP World History

England’s Colonial Experiments: The 17th CenturyJamestown Virginia House of Burgesses Sir George CalvertLord Baltimore Act Concerning Religion 1649 John Winthrop/ “City on a Hill” Mayflower Compact Roger WilliamsAnne Hutchinson Thomas Hooker Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639QuakersWilliam Penn’s “Holy Experiment”Putting Down Roots: Families in the Atlantic EmpireHalfway CovenantThe New England PrimerAnthony Johnson Stono RebellionMercantilismNavigation Acts (include Staple Act here)Bacon's RebellionCotton MatherIncrease MatherSalem Witch TrialsDominion of New England (Andros)Leisler's RebellionCoode’s RebellionFrontiers of Empire: 18th Century AmericaScotch-Irish Immigrants"Pennsylvania Dutch" “Middle Ground”The American "Enlightenment"Benjamin FranklinWhite Pines/Sugar Act/Hat, Felt and Iron Acts1st Great AwakeningJonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

The American Revolution:“No Taxation without Representation”John Locke/Two Treatises of GovernmentProclamation of 1763George GrenvilleRevenue Act of 1764Stamp ActStamp Act CongressSons of LibertyBritish Reaction/The Declaratory ActTownshend DutiesBoston Massacre Committees of CorrespondenceBoston Tea Party First Continental CongressSecond Continental CongressDeclaration of IndependenceThomas Paine: Common Sense/The CrisisToriesLexington and ConcordBunker HillSaratogaYorktown Treaty of Paris, 1783The Republican ExperimentSociety of Cincinnati Benjamin Banneker & Phillis WheatleyRichard AllenAbigail AdamsLand Ordinance of 1785 Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Nationalist CritiqueNewburgh Conspiracy Jay-Gardoqui Treaty Annapolis ConventionShays’ Rebellion Philadelphia ConventionVirginia PlanNew Jersey PlanConnecticut Compromise

Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics Judiciary Act of 1789Hamilton’s economic planHamilton vs. JeffersonCitizen Genet AffairJay’s Treaty Battle of Fallen Timbers Pinckney’s TreatyPolitical clubsWhiskey RebellionWashington’s Farewell AddressXYZ AffairAlien & Sedition ActsVirginia & Kentucky ResolutionsElection of 1800Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of GovernmentTecumseh & the ProphetSamuel SlaterLouisiana PurchaseLewis and Clark ExpeditionMarbury v. Madison/midnight judgesFletcher v. PeckThe Burr TrialOrders in Council & the Chesapeake AffairEmbargo Act (1807), Non-Intercourse Act (1809), Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)War HawksHartford ConventionTreaty of Ghent (1814)Nation Building and NationalismAdams-Onis Treaty James F. Cooper, Leatherstocking Tales ClermontNational RoadErie CanalPutting Out SystemLowell, MassachusettsHenry Clay’s American System

Social Studies Resources

Social Studies Learning Environments

Social Studies Learning Environments

US History I and US History II

Essential Skills

•Analysis of Primary Documents• Analysis of Secondary Documents• Content Understanding• Proving a Thesis in Writing• Proving a Thesis with Presentation

Reflection

EvidenceAuthentic Assessment Portfolio

Rubric

21%

21%

21%

21%

16%

Final Course Grade

1st Quarter

2nd Quarter

3rd Quarter

4th Quarter

Final Assessment Grade

8%

8%

Authentic Assessment

Final Exam

World Studies - Units of Study

Industrialization and its Consequences

A Half Century of Crisis

Paradoxes of Global Acceleration

Western World Dominance

The 21st Century

World Studies• Essential Questions as lenses

Government • What is the best way to organize society?

Culture • How does culture best meet the needs of people?

Economics• What is the best way

to create and distribute resources?

Technology • How does technology affect societies?

Environment

• How do societies interact with their environment?

A Half Century of

Crisis

Social Studies Electives• AP European History• AP Psychology• AP Government and Politics• International Relations• Sociology• Psychology• African American Studies• Middle Eastern Studies• Holocaust & Genocide Studies

11th & 12th

Grade

Course Levels in Social Studies

• College Prep

Concepts classes are designed for students who need to dedicate more time to strengthening their reading, writing, and social studies skills.

2008 AP Exam PerformanceNational Pass Rate 53%CHS Pass Rate 93%

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• Concepts

• Advanced Placement

TeacherRecommendation

Social Studies Core Curriculum Sequence

US History I

9th Grade

US History II World Studies

10th Grade 11th Grade• Concepts US History I• US History I• Honors US History I

• Concepts US History II• US History II• AP US History II

• Concepts World Studies• World Studies• AP World History

What to do to help your child

Talk

Ask “How do you know that?”

Read

What to do to help your child

21st Century Social Studies9th Grade Orientation

Steven Maher, Social Studies Supervisor

Thank You!