Social Studies Department


History & Social Studies

 

The Social Studies department is committed to the infusion of the Common Core Standards into classroom instruction. We believe that education should include an interdisciplinary experience, working on expeditions that are multi-faceted. Our Social Studies department focuses on the study of history through literature and art in addition to regular classroom instruction.

We focus on all areas of studies with the following practices:

■ Key ideas – the central organizing feature for each grade – represent the essential and enduring content understandings that should be the focus of teaching and learning for each grade

■ The six social studies practices of gathering, using and interpreting evidence, chronological reasoning and causation, comparison and contextualization, applying geographic reasoning, understanding economics and economic systems, and engaging in civic participation.

9th Grade Global History and Geography 1

  • First Civilizations (ca. 10,000 B.C.E. – ca. 900 C.E.)
  • Expanding Interregional Networks: Exchange and Encounter (ca. 500 – ca. 1500 C.E.)
  • The Ottoman and the Ming Dynasties (pre-1600 C.E.)
  • Transformation of Western Europe and Russia (1314 – ca. 1750 C.E.)
  • Africa and the Americas (pre-1600 C.E.)
  • Interactions and Disruptions During the First Global Age (ca. 1400 – ca. 1750 C.E.)

 

10th Grade Global History and Geography 2

  • The World in 1750 C.E.
  • An Age of Revolution and Empire (1750 – 1914 C.E.)
  • Unresolved Global Conflict (1914 – 1991 C.E.)
  • Decolonization and Nationalism
  • Tensions Between Traditional Cultures and Modernization
  • Globalization and the Changing Environment
  • Students are expected to take the Global History & Geography Regents upon completion of this course this year

 

10th Grade Honors: Advanced Placement World History

  • Same components as Global History and Geography 2 plus;
  • Technological and Environmental Transformations (to c. 600 BCE)
  • Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies (c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE)
  • Regional and Transregional Interactions (c. 600 CE to c. 1450)
  • Global Interactions (c. 1450 to c. 1750)
  • Industrialization and Global Integration (c. 1750 to c. 1900)
  • Accelerating Global Change and Realignments (c. 1900 to the Present)
  • Students are expected to take the AP World History exam in addition to the Global History & Geography Regents and upon completion of this course this year

 

11th Grade Social Studies 3: US History

  • Forming a Union: Colonial and Constitutional Foundations (1607 – ca. 1800)
  • Expansion, Nationalism, and Sectionalism (1800 – 1865)
  • Post-Civil War America Industrialization, Urbanization and the Progressive Movement (1865 – ca. 1900)
  • Prosperity and Depression: At Home and Abroad (ca. 1890 – 1941)
  • World War II and the Cold War (1935 – 1990)
  • Social and Economic Change: Domestic Issues (1945 – present)
  • The United States and Globalization (1990 – present)
  • Students are expected to take the US History Regents upon completion of this course

 

11th Grade Social Studies 3H: Advanced Placement United States History

  • Same components as Social Studies 3 plus;
  • Exposes students to college-level rigor
  • Provides opportunity to become skilled readers of primary source documents written in a variety of periods and rhetorical contexts.
  • Students are expected to take the Advanced Placement examination as well as the US History Regents upon completion of this course

 

12th Grade English Social Studies 4: Participation in Government

  • Foundations of American Democracy
  • Rights and Responsibilities
  • Civic Participation and Public Policy

 

12th Grade English Social Studies 4: Economics

  • Personal Finance: Individual Responsibility and the Economy
  • Individuals and Businesses in the Market
  • American Capitalism and the Global Economy

 

12th Grade English – Social Studies 4H: Advanced Placement Government and Politics

  • Same components as Social Studies 4
  • Exposure to college level rigor and accountability
  • Critical writing experiences and analysis of political and government documents
  • Students are expected to take the Advanced Placement examination upon completion of this course