Claire Williams
» Social Studies Curriculum
Social Studies Curriculum
- Eighth Grade Units
- Progressive Era
- World Power
- World War I
- Depression
- World War II
- Holocaust/Genocide
- Cold War
- Civil Rights
- Modern times
- Resources
- American History, McDougal Littell
- DBQ Project: Students have to work with several documents on one topic to develop their own evaluation.
- Newsela, Online historical and current events articles. Automatically adjusts to a child’s Lexile.
- Non-fiction and Historical Fiction Book Clubs- Students will read in about March/April in small groups.
- Current Events
- Assigned about once every 2 weeks.
- Topics are assigned to develop their critical thinking.
- Students may bring in article for review prior to due date.
- Should be an easy 100%, if they follow the format.