Call to Freedom  (Holt, Rinehart, Winston) is the textboook for grades 7 and 8

Regular Current Events assignements will be part of the 7th and 8th grade curriculums

8th GRADE

Orientation/ Policy & Procedures/ Geography Review

* Slavery Era

* The Civil War

*  Reconstruction and New Freedoms

* Jim Crow South and Segregation

* Early Civil Rights Movement

* Women's History

Native American History

*  Novel (The Glory Field), read throughout first trimester

 *  Russian Geography/ Russian Revolutions/ Stalin

 *  World War II, The Holocaust, novels/book report

      Spring trip to the Holocaust Museum

MLK and Later Civil rtights Movements

 *  The Beginning of the Nuclear Age

 *  President Kennedy and the Cuban mIssile Crisis

 *  Vietnam War

 *   Fall of the Soviet Union