Class Info

Course Overview:

Students will continue to build on the fourth and fifth grade introductions to North Carolina and the United States by embarking on a more rigorous study of the historical foundations and democratic principles that continue to shape our state and nation. Students will begin with a review of the major ideas and events preceding the foundation of North Carolina and the United States. The main focus of the course will be the critical events, personalities, issues, and developments in the state and nation from the Revolutionary Era to contemporary times. Inherent in this study is an analysis of the relationship of geography, events and people to the political, economic, technological, and cultural developments that shaped our existence in North Carolina and the United States over time. Although the major focus is state and national history, efforts should also be made to include a study of local history.

Units of Study:

• Thinking Like A Historian: about 2 weeks

• Colonization: about 3 weeks

• Road to Revolution: about 4 weeks

• Building a New Nation: about 3 weeks

• Antebellum and Expansion: about 4 weeks

• Civil War: about 3 weeks

• Reconstruction: about 3 weeks

• WWI and the Roaring 20s: about 4 weeks

• The Great Depression and WWII: about 3 weeks 

• The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement: about 3 weeks

• Untold American Stories: about 3 weeks