Social Studies: Students in middle school begin to explore the geography, history, cultures, and peoples of our nation and the world with National Geographic Learning. Students in grades 6 and 7 focus on world cultures and geography--grade 6 places an emphasis on the regions of the Eastern Hemisphere (portions of Europe, Russia, Africa, and Asia), and grade 7 focuses on the regions of the Western Hemisphere (North and South America, Russia, portions of Europe, and Australia). The focus then transitions to U.S. History in grade 8 where history is approached in a linear fashion starting around 1600 and working through the Progressive Era in the early 1900s. Throughout the year the curriculum covers colonization, the US Revolutionary War, the US Constitution, the Holocaust, the US Civil War, post-Civil War Reconstruction, Immigration, and labor reform. The peoples, movements, and wars that shaped our nation are interwoven throughout.
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