G. E. HERBERT

2022-2023 School Year

Class overview

To be productive members of society, students must be critical consumers of information they read, hear, and observe and communicate effectively about their ideas. They need to gain knowledge from a wide array of sources and examine and evaluate that information to develop and express an informed opinion, using information gained from the sources and their background knowledge. Students must also make connections between what they learn about the past and the present to understand how and why events happen and people act in certain ways.

• In grade 7, students explore the formation of the American identity as they learn early United States history from the eve of the Revolution to the end of Reconstruction.

• In grade 8, students will explore economic, political and social identity that has formed Louisiana's identity. Learn about Louisiana’s geography, colonial Louisiana, Antebellum period, Civil War and Reconstruction Era, Jim Crow Louisiana, Civil Rights Era and modern day Louisiana.