4.7th+Grade+U.S.+Social+Studies

RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. in maps; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. in cartoons; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support Part II: Hakim Pilgrims and King Philips War; Lewis and Clark diaries, Part III: Trail of Tears, Homestead/Dawes Act, Escape from the Black feet, Speech of Chief Joseph "I will Fight no more Forever."
 * 1.European Contact with 1st Nation Peoples **
 * Sub-Questions: **Who was more civilized and who was more savage?
 * Historical Themes/Key Content Topics: **European Encounter, Colonization and Expansion and Native Americans
 * C.C.S.S.: **Info/Explanatory Writing with Persuasive Writing on definition of "civilized"
 * Readings: ** Part I: Cortes & Moctezuma accounts; Aztec poem, drawings; Champlain diary, Journal of Fr. Lafourge

media type="youtube" key="OuIsOOT6fwQ" height="199" width="358" align="right" Who helped the Revolution more, women or African Americans? **Historical Themes/Key Content Topics:** **C.C.S.S.:** Mini-Essays: Argumentative; Compare Points of View RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Readings: Inglis vs. Paine; DBQ letters, diaries, ads
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">2.American Revolution **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Should we have wars for independence?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Article: "Is a free press more free today? Internet vs. corporate-run media;" "Boston Photographs" by Nora Ephron
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">3. Constitution: Freedoms of the Press **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">How free is our free press? Why should we care? When is a democracy: dangerous mob rule, or majority rules is fairest? What are the dangers and needs of a free press and how have others overcome this obstacle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Historical Themes/Key Content Topics: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Branches of government, Preamble, Bill of Rights, local political officials, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">C.C.S.S.: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Info/Explanatory Writing; Persuasive Writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Readings: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Federalist papers; Ben Franklin "balanced press essay;"

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">4. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 190%;">What does it mean to be strong? A Nation Grows Up <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST4 Vocabulary; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs and cartoons; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">What woman from the East was the strongest role model during this era? What woman from the West was the strongest role model in this era? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Should an Orphan Train send children West, or keep them in cities of the East?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Historical Themes/Key Content Topics: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Rise of Cities, Expansion, Immigration, Women reformers and suffrage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">C.C.S.S.: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Info/Explanatory Research Writing with Persuasive Writing on Significance.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Readings: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">__100 Pieces of Gold__, letters of orphans, political cartoons of treatment of Chinese; biography of Sarah Bagley, Reformers' speeches; Chinese Exclusion Act; Immigrant letters from pioneers and from city folk;

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">5.**CIVIL WAR:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Sub-Questions:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">How "civil" was the Civil War? If you were African-American, would you have fought? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Historical Themes/Key Content Topics:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Roles of African American, women and children in the war; causes and effects of Civil War, Lincoln's leadership pro and con; regionalism; total war; key battles; NYC Draft riots, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**C.C.S.S.:** Persuasive Writing with multiple texts from independent research. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RHIST1&2&6/R6.1,6.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,7,9/R6.8,6.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST6.1,6.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W6.4;6.5 Clear writing with support <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">__With Every Drop of Blood__; Emancipation Proclamation/ and Gettysburg Address; Southern Contraband Law; DBQs including __Letters from an Uncommon(woman) Soldier,__ letters from soldiers, etc.