6th Grade Curriculum:

In 6th grade Social Studies, we study what history is, history's relationship to archaeology and geography, human prehistory, the cradles of civilization, major empires of the ancient Middle East, Greek civilizations, Roman civilization, the rise of Christianity, Byzantine civilization, the rise of Islam, the early Middle Ages, and the High Middle Ages, including the concept of feudalism, the crusades, and the rise of West European monarchies. Throughout the course, the historical importance of developments in Judaism, Christianity, and the Church is emphasized.

Why does my license plate say that?

Geography of Europe

Imperial Rome

Rise of Christianity

Persecution of Christians & Division of Empire

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Smithsonian: Human Evolution Evidence 
Life in Mesopotamia [sample RS outline for "First Farmers"] 
Ancient Mesopotamia 
BBC: Development of Pyramids Gallery 
Ancient Egypt 
Time Maps: Syria 1500 BC -- 1000 BC 
Time Maps: Phoenicians 
Jewish Virtual Library 
Time Maps: Assyria 
Time Maps: Minoan Civilization 
Ancient Greece 
The Gracchi Brothers 
The Bible's Table of Contents 
Biography: St. Boniface 
BBC History: Anglo-Saxons 
BBC History: King Alfred the Great 
BBC History: King Henry II (Henry Plantagenet) 
BBC History: King John

7th Grade Curriculum:

In 7th grade Social Studies, we study the beginning of the Modern Era, the Age of Exploration, the British Colonies, the American Revolution and its causes and purposes, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the economic and territorial growth of the United States from coast to coast, the institution of slavery and the causes of the Civil War, and the Civil War itself.

“My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

Presidencies of Washington & Adams

Presidencies of Jefferson & Madison

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Digital History [Two sample RS outlines]

U.S. Constitution

1790 U.S. Census

8th Grade Curriculum:

In 8th grade Social Studies, we study Reconstruction, the settlement of the Great West, the corporate revolution and amazing economic growth of the Gilded Age, the Progressive Age, World War I and its causes and results, economics, the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II and its causes and results, the civil rights movement, and the Cold War.

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

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History of Economics

Money & the Federal Reserve

Digital History 
U.S. Constitution 
U.S. Adult Literacy Statistics (1870-1979)