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Social Studies Department Steve Olshalsky , Supervisor K-12 http://www.trentonmillhill.org/history.html

Social Studies Education The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.

Social Studies Education

All Social Studies Courses... • Engage students in Historical Thinking Skills. ➢ Skill 1: Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence ➢ Skill 2: Chronological Reasoning ➢ Skill 3: Comparison and Contextualization ➢ Skill 4: Historical Interpretation and Synthesis

All Social Studies Courses... • Maximize student interaction and critical thinking skills. • Ensure that the history of ALL Americans is incorporated into daily instruction. • Utilize technology as a tool of engagement for student learning • Help improve student performance across the content areas (specifically ELA) • Promote Common Core literacy skills through examination of informational text and evidence-based writing.

Social Studies Course Sequence 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade Modern United States United States World History I History II History Honors Honors Honors United Modern United States States History World History I II History AP United States History

Modern World History 1. Age of Revolutions 2. The World at War 3. Contemporary Regional Studies: 1945- Present ○ Europe ○ Africa ○ Asia ○ Middle East ○ Latin America

United States History I 1. European Expansion and Colonization 2. The American Revolution 3. The Constitutional Era 1787-1791 4. The New Nation 5. Nationalism, Sectionalism, & Economic Development 6. The Era of Jackson 1828-1840 7. Age of Reform 8. Westward Expansion 9. The Rise of Conflict 1848-1860 10. Civil War and Reconstruction 11. Industrial America during the Gilded Age 12. The American West during the Gilded Age

United States History II 1. The Emergence of Modern America 2. America in the Age of Imperialism 3. America and the War to End All Wars 4. From Boom to Bust: America in the 1920’s 5. The Great Depression and New Deal 6. America in World War II 7. The Cold War: Truman, Eisenhower, JFK 1945-1963 8. The Era of Conflict, Compromise and Change 1945-1975 9. Post-Vietnam America 1975-2000 10. The New Millennium 2000- Present

Available electives in Social Studies by grade level... Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 The Law: Rights The Law: Rights ● Europe in the Modern ● Europe in the Modern Age ● The Individual in Society and Responsibilities and Responsibilitie s Age ● History of Race, Class, ● The Individual in Society Gender and Ethnicity ● History of Race, Class ● Cultural Anthropology Gender and Ethnicity ● Money, Markets and the ● Cultural Anthropology Economy ● Money, Markets and the ● Modern America Through Economy the Media ● Modern American ● Power and Politics in Through the Media America ● Power and Politics in ● AP Government & Politics America ● AP Psychology ● AP Government & ● AP World History Politics ● Honors Shaping Western ● AP Psychology Thought

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES (IH) A true interdisciplinary experience that Interdisciplinary Projects ❖ connects between the different branches Joint Summer Project ❖ of humanities. Analysis of Anthem by Ayn Rand ➢ Ability to analyze challenging Writing an original Short Story ❖ ❖ informational and fictional texts. Analysis of Contemporary Music ❖ Continue to develop writing skills using SS: as it relates to the war experience of ❖ ➢ the writing process in BOTH English and WWI soldiers History classes. ELA: utilizing poetry explication skills ➢ Continue to develop skills that will Digital Poster on Animal Farm’s connections to ❖ ❖ prepare students for Advanced totalitarianism Placement courses in English and Research Paper on contemporary Europe ❖ History as 11th and 12th graders. Field Trips ❖ Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Meet the Artist at Lincoln Center, NYC ❖ New York City Ballet and American Ballet ❖ Theater in the evening ❖ In-school experiences – i.e., Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey National Constitution Center, Philadelphia ❖

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES (IH)

INSTITUTE FOR CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT (ICE)

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