Emphasis in this course will be the five themes of geography and will include the development of academic skills and multicultural understandings. The course is a study of the basic principles by which our nation is governed. The workings of the national, state, and local governments are studied, with emphasis on core democratic values and current problems and citizenship. This course is a survey of U.S. History from colonization through the present. Students will study events and people and the impact they have had on our history.
Emphasis is placed on a multi-cultural perspective, core democratic values and citizenship.
Students in these two classes are taught with a multidisciplinary approach. Close ties are made between historical events and movements in literature. The courses involved are based on the creation of a literature-history project that stresses the continuity of these two courses. Only A full year course designed to provide students with analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with problems and concepts in American History. The course prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those of full year college courses.