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Middle 8th Grade recommended - M/J United States History

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Description

FLVS recommends this course for 8th grade, however, each school district establishes their own progression for middle school social studies courses.  For accurate placement, check with your school district or FLVS Flex counselor to confirm the appropriate social studies course for your student.

Learning about history allows people to see how far we have come and what awaits us on our path to the future. In this course, students will explore the history of the United States and analyze the cause and effect in historical events. They will investigate history by using the tools of a historian to examine the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events that influenced the development of the United States. Students will imagine what it was like to live in the past by reading the stories from the people who experienced it. This course begins with the engaging stories of what brought the earliest American colonists to the New World and ends with the struggles to repair the United States following the Civil War. Engaging in this study allows students to recognize the themes of history that span across centuries and leads to a greater appreciation of the development of the United States and the resulting impact on world history.

Access the site links below to view the standards from the Florida Department of Education:

Regular course description: http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/13293

Advanced course description: http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/13295

Segment 1:

Early settlement

Colonization of America

French and Indian War

Historian’s Tools

Colonial Protest toBritish Policies

American Revolution

Declaration ofIndependence

Founding Fathers

Articles ofConfederation

ConstitutionalConvention

Early Challenges to theNew Nation

Louisiana Purchase

War of 1812
Segment 2:

Westward expansion

Manifest Destiny

Indian Removal

Expansion of Slavery

The Mexican-American War

The IndustrialRevolution

Expansion of Democracy

Second Great Awakening

Transcendentalism

Women’s Suffrage

Abolition

Civil War

Reconstruction

 

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.  

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.

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