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Grade 7 Social Studies: Year-Long Overview
To be productive members of society, students must be critical consumers of information they read, hear, and observe and communicate effectively about their ideas. They need to gain knowledge from a wide array of sources and examine and evaluate that information to develop and express an informed opinion, using information gained from the sources and their background knowledge. Students must also make connections between what they learn about the past and the present to understand how and why events happen and people act in certain ways.
To accomplish this, students must:
- Use sources regularly to learn content.
- Make connections among people, events, and ideas across time and place.
- Express informed opinions using evidence from sources and outside knowledge.
Teachers must create instructional opportunities that delve deeply into content and guide students in developing and supporting claims about social studies concepts.
In grade 7, students explore the formation of the American identity as they learn early United States history from the eve of the Revolution to the end of Reconstruction. The key themes in grade 7 highlight the connections among the GLEs that students should make as they develop and express informed opinions about the grade 7 claims.
Grade 7 Social Studies:
The grade 7 scope and sequence document is divided into six units. Each unit has an overview, instruction which includes topics and tasks, and a unit assessment.
Unit One: Road to Independence
Unit Two: Creating a New Government
Unit Three: The New Republic
Unit Four: Expansion & Conflict
Unit Five: The Civil War
Unit Six: Reconstruction