7th Grade History

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One of the most exciting part of history is ancient and medieval history.  The seventh grade history curriculum focuses on both areas. The students learn about the rise and fall of the Roman empire.  They explore the reasons behind the ways cultures develop through trade, and exchanges with other countries and discover the factors that bring about the downfall of all the empires of the ancient world.  This seemed to have been true to the development of the early Muslim culture and its influences across the continents.  The content of the seventh grade program extends to the study of West African cultures of the Noks and the Jenne-jennos, the people of Ghana, Mali and Songhai.  We continue to understand the development  of the early Japanese lifestyle, its early societal groups, the life of the shogun and the samurais, to have a grasp of their present day way of living and thinking.  We end the school year history content with the study of feudalism in Europe and the development of its medieval culture.

Some of the activities and skills that lend to a better understanding of these historical concepts include but are not limited to:  map study skills, interpreting cultural pictorials, proverbs and stories; creating different types of timelines to understand chronological development of historical events; using technology to research and create diagrams, charts and tables that aim to help students compare and contrast people's way of life, then and now; and interpreting historical graphs.  We also use different art forms to tell stories within stories, built within the different cultures that students read about.  Because history is a content subject, students use their comprehension and  advanced reading skills to help them locate information and main ideas, develop outlines, and take notes that help them in their studies.

Students in the history class are taught to organize their notes in their binders for a quarterly binder check.  As a study and life skill, physically organizing materials aim to help them oversee where all papers are kept and where they can be pulled out as necessary.