Social Studies 8 Course InformationÂ
Social Studies 8: SC and US History Curriculum Overview:
This course is aligned with the 2020 South Carolina Social Studies College and Career Ready Standards for the history of South Carolina and the United States, Grade 8. Instruction utilizes the historical thinking skills developed for South Carolina history students. These historical thinking skills are aligned with the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate that focuses on world-class knowledge, world-class skills, and life and career characteristics. Students will acquire content knowledge through reading and analyzing multiple primary and secondary sources, group discussions, and whole class instruction. They will apply the historical thinking skills to the acquired knowledge, and then design and communicate their interpretation of the past. This process as a whole is known as inquiry. Rather than focusing on the memorization of facts with one correct answer, inquiry differs because students are evaluated on their ability to make a claim and support it with reliable evidence from research.
Social Studies 8 SC/US History 2023-2024 Syllabus found below:
