Social Studies

The standards and objectives in the seventh-grade course, World Studies II, will allow students to extend the foundational skills, concepts, processes, and knowledge gained in grades K-5 and prepare students to be college, career, and civic ready. Despite there being a different overall focus for each subsequent course, students will explore the content through the following lenses: inquiry; behavioral sciences; civics and government; economics; geography; and history. As students develop cognitively, these lenses become more focused based on the grade-level content and disciplinary thinking skills.

QUARTER 1

Unit 1: Thinking Like a Historian

Unit 2: The Age of Exploration and Global Exchange

Unit 3:  Colonization and Global Empires

QUARTER 2

Unit 4:  Absolutism and Enlightenment

Unit 5:  Revolutions

Unit 6:  Industrialism

QUARTER 3

Unit 7: Rise of World Powers; Imperialism, Nationalism, & World War I

Unit 8:  Interwar Period and Interwar Economics

Unit 9:  World War II

QUARTER 4

Unit 10:  Global Society Part 1

Unit 11:  Global Society Part 2

40% Major Summative Assessments ( Tests and Projects)

30%  Minor Assessments (quizzes)

20%  Classwork

10% Homework

Pencils/ Pens

 Highlighters

2-pocket folder

Sticky note pads