Social Studies Dept

SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT
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FACULTY

Ms. A. Alciviades
Mr. D. Bargiel
Mr. D. Campbell
Mr. T. Dolan
Mr. H. Fields
Mr. D. Fleming
Mr. J. Fox
Ms. T. Moore(Department Assistant)
Mr. D. Rummenie
Mr. R. Skemer

DESCRIPTION

Grades 7 and 8 will be a two-year, chronologically organized history of the United States with a parallel study of New York State integrated throughout the program. Hemispheric context will be provided by references to Canada and Mexico at appropriate points in the development of those nations. A major characteristic of the program will be a more intensive use of social history which deals with the lives of ordinary people in the various period being studied. Social history is broad and personal and examines such factors as family, race ethnicity, patterns of work, recreation and community life. The course content is divided into eleven units, tracing the human experience in the United States from pre-Columbian times to the present and develops the five learning stands for Social Studies: United States and New York History; World History; Geography; Economics; and Civics, Citizenship, and Government. Students will experience historical research, including the analysis of primary source materials. They will also develop the skill of answering document-based and constructed-response questions.