HISTORY SOCIAL-SCIENCE STANDARDS
Text below in italics was added by the Curriculum Coordinator.

Grade K: My World
Grade 1: School and Family (students are to construct a simple map)
Grade 2: Neighborhoods (students label from memory a simple map; learn family history/geography)
Grade 3: Communities (students study their community and may write a community report; great opportunity to incorporate the use of technology)
Grade 4: California Studies

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Grade 5: Early US History. Students in grade five study the development of the nation up to 1850, with an emphasis on the people who were already here, when and from where others arrived, and why they came. (1500's, 1600's, and 1700's)
Grade 8: US History to WWI. Students in grade eight study the ideas, issues, and events from the framing of the Constitution up to World War I.(Late 1700's and all of 1800's to include the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Westward Expansion, but not including WWI)
US History: Modern Times. Students in grade eleven study the major turning points in American history in the 20th century; review of the nation's beginnings and the impact of the Enlightenment on U.S. deomcratic ideals (~3-4 textbook chapters, or ~1 unit in an online course); build on the 10th-grade study of global industrialization to understand the present and its effect on new technology and a corporate economy. (Includes all of the 1900's, WWI, WWII, to present with about 1/5th of the course covering the 1960's to the present).

Grade 6: Ancient History. Students in grade six expand their understanding of history by studying the people and events that
ushered in the dawn of the major Western and non-Western ancient civilizations. (History up through the fall of Rome around 500 A.D.)
Grade 7: Medieval and Early Modern History. Students in grade seven study the social, cultural, and technological changes that occurred in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the Medieval years A.D.500-1500, and Early Modern History A.D.1500-1789. (After the fall of Rome around 500 A.D. up through the late 1700's)
World History: Modern Times. Students in grade ten study major turning points that shaped the modern world, from the late eighteenth century through the present, including the cause and course of the two world wars and develop an understanding of the historical roots of current world issues, especially as they pertain to international relations. (Review of the rise of democratic ideas and the roots of current world issues; the late 1700's to present)

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