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Social Studies
World Cultures I (Grade 9)
World Culture I is a chronological study of the development of world civilizations from the Prehistoric World through the River Valley Civilizations of the Middle East, Japan, China, and India. Classical Greece and Rome are considered with development of Western Civilization through the Middle Ages up to the Renaissance. Emphasis is placed on those values and institutions, which have survived and influenced the life of the student in those areas of freedom, democracy, and most of all Christianity.
World Cultures II (Grade 10)
World Culture II is a chronological study of the continued development and advancement of world civilizations from the Reformation through the English Civil War and the revolutions in France, America, and Russia.
Events of the 20th century are presented with an emphasis on the impact technology has had in creating a world of interdependent nations, hence a sense of a global community.
American History (Grade 12)
This course begins with the exploration of America by the early European explores and concludes with the study of the Civil Rights Movement. The major topics covered are as follows; European explores of America; colonization of America by the Europeans; British rule of Colonial America; the American Revolution; the Constitution; the War of 1812;causes of the Civil War; the Industrial revolution; the emergence of America as a world power; the war to end all wars-World War I; the Great Depression; the Holocaust; World War II; the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement.
These topics are studied in order to give the students an understanding of the past, which will help in their present day lives and build for them, a plan for the future.
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