Mrs.
CheckettsEighth Grade History
Mrs.
Checketts
Mrs. Gunton
AMERICAN STUDIES: This course of study, as aligned with the California History/Social Studies Framework, begins with an intensive review of the major ideas, issues, and events preceding the founding of the nation. Students will concentrate on the critical events of the period from the framing of the Constitution to World War I. The units taught in the eighth grade course include Connecting with Past Learning; Our Colonial Heritage; A New Nation; The Constitution of the United States; Launching the Ship of State; The Divergent Paths of the American People: 1800-1850, The West, The Northeast, and The South; Toward a More Perfect Union: 1850-1879; The Rise of Industrial America: 1877-1914; and Linking the Past to the Present.