Welcome to Fremont Junior High

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Welcome to Fremont Junior High Seventh Grade
Social Studies!!
OPEN HOUSE
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Your Teachers are..

• Mr. Anderson
• Mr. Guillory
• Mr. Wangler
• Mr. Whitehead

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Important Skills
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SOCIAL STUDIESCURRICULUM STANDARDS

• http//www.mpsaz.org/scsoc/pdf/sec_ss_dec_07/ss07_
  world_geo.pdf

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COURSE OVERVIEW

• 1st Semester
• 1) Basic Geography and Arizona
• 2) Westward Expansion and Pre-Civil War
• 3) Civil War and Reconstruction
• 4) Industrial Era

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EXAMPLE
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UNIT

• Westward Expansion
• Pre-Civil War

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PRIORITY PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

• S1C6-PO1
• Analyze the factors leading to the Civil War

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S1C6-PO1 continued

• a) role of abolitionists and Underground Railroad
• b) Sectionalism and States Rights
• c) Westward expansion (Manifest Destiny, Texas
  War for Independence, Mexican War)
• d) Missouri and 1850 Compromises

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S1C6-PO1 continued

• e) Dred Scott Decision
• f) Kansas-Nebraska Act
• g) Lincoln/Douglas Debates
• h) Birth of the Republican Party
• i) Lincolns Election

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VOCABULARY CONCEPTS

• Terms
• Civil War, abolitionist, underground railroad,
  sectionalism, states rights, expansion, Manifest
  Destiny, Texas War for Independence, Mexican War,
  Missouri Compromise,

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TERMS continued

• 1850 Compromise, Dred Scott Decision,
  Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln Douglas Debates,
  birth of Republican Party, property rights,
  enslavement, population density, agrarian South,
  industrial North

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COURSE OVERVIEW

• 2nd Semester
• 1) Progressive Era
• 2) Imperialism
• 3) World War I
• 4) The 1920s 1930s
• 5) Pre-World War II

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PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
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For example

• Technology integration using PowerPoint and other
  computer based programs
• Hands-on projects individually and in groups
  using graphic organizers, cooperative learning
  and critical thinking

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Bobby Jones

• By
• Ty Bowman
• 4/04/08
• Per. 5