Most school districts require high school students to acquire 4 years worth of social studies lessons or credits. These lessons are basically the same lessons that have been taught in previous years. The exception is that at the high school level, students are expected to be able to learn history in detail, remembering exact dates of historic events, and discussing social issues. The basic curriculum for social studies in high school is as follows. A student does not have to take social studies in this order as long as the four types of courses are covered.
Grade 9 social studies focus on world issues, cultures, and relations. Topics covered include basic human communities, community, state, and national government, and political parties and elections. Cultural studies include comparative cultures and religions, African American, Hispanic, and other ethnic studies, and urban studies. Students also study women in our history, conservation, including human conservation, resource management, elementary economics, labor and management, and taxation. As an American student, ninth graders should study foundations of American democracy, U. S. Constitution, rights and responsibilities of good citizenship, and the United Nations. Finally, students must know world geography, have advanced map, and globe skills. A student seeking to take a college level course instead could take a government and politics class.
Grade 10 Social Studies covers world history from ancient to modern times. They would cover topics of prehistoric peoples, the earliest civilizations, the early Greeks, early India, and China. They would also learn about the Islamic world, the middle Ages, African civilizations, civilization in the Americas, the Renaissance, and the rise and fall of monarchies. They would also study, the birth of modern democracy, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, nationalism, imperialism, and science and industry. The world wars are taught and include World War I, between world wars, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and The search for peace. Finally, students would learn about Democratic ideals and values, the rise and fall of Communism, the collapse of the Soviet Union, world interdependence, world problems and issues and the role of women in today’s societies. A student wishing to take a community college course would take a beginning world history class.
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