This year in Social Studies, we will be studying:
- An Introduction to Social Studies
- What questions frame the social studies disciplines of history, geography, government, and economics?
- How do nonfiction text features and text structures help the writer to convey information and the reader to understand information?
- How do historians use primary sources to learn about the past?
- Early Colonization and Growth of the Colonies
- To what extent was North America a land of opportunity and for whom?
- How were the three colonial regions alike and different?
- What was the impact of slavery on Africans?
- Revolutionary War
- Why did most Native Peoples side with the French against the British in the French and Indian Wars?
- Were the colonists justified in rebelling against Great Britain in the American Revolution?
- Formation and Principles of the United States Government
- How did the Constitution attempt to balance competing interests, the question of power, and the ideas of slavery?
- How do we ensure and protect equal rights for all Americans?
- Civil War and Civil Rights
- What ideas and events of the 19th century led to the expansion of civil rights in the 20th and 21st centuries?
