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=Heritage Middle School 7/8 Social Studies=

Heritage Middle School is one of two middle schools in Independent School District 197, located in West St. Paul, Minnesota. Heritage opened its doors in January 1997. It has a population around 700 students. We have six houses within the building, 3 upstairs made up of 5th and 6th grade students and 3 downstairs made up of 7th and 8th graders. One of the core classes in 7th and 8th grade is Social Studies. The curriculum in Social Studies is a two-year thematic examination of United States and Minnesota history, geography, economics, and civics. The five themes taught both years are: Conflict, Movement, Reform & Change, American Dream, and Perspective (in no particular order). Even though we teach the same themes in both years we have select topics that are the focus of each unit. Listed below are the topics for each of the themes in years (1 & 2). During the 2010-11 we are in year 2 of the curriculum.

>Prosperity >Recession >Depression >Recovery >Stock Market Simulation >Hebert Hoover >Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * //__ Reform and Change (Yr. 2) __//**
 * Business Cycle
 * Stock Market Crash of 1929
 * Great Depression
 * United States Presidents

__//** Conflict (Yr. 2) **//__ >Fourteen Points
 * World War 1

>Pearl Harbor >Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Speech (December 8, 1941) >Japanese American Internment Camps >Korematsu v. United States >Home Front (Rationing)
 * World War 2

>Truman Doctrine >Berlin Wall >Little Rock Nine >Gulf of Tonkin Incident Resolution >Campus Protests (Kent State and Mankato State) >United States Presidents (Lyndon Johnson)
 * Cold War
 * Civil Rights Movement
 * Vietnam War

__//**American Dream (Yr. 2)**//__
 * Careers
 * Labor Unions
 * Entrepreneurs

__//**Movement (Yr. 2)**//__
 * Technology
 * Interstate Highway System
 * Route 66

__//**Perspective (Yr.2)**//__

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