Course Syllabus

Throughout this course we will experience the culture and events of the Western Hemisphere all while practicing our reading and geography skills. This look at the cultures of the peoples of the Americas and Europe will be done through a personalized style of learning. While you must still master sixth grade reading and social studies standards, your interests and speed at which you wish to move through the content will determine the manner in which you demonstrate what you have learned. 

We will complete the following units in this course:

• Survival...
• Locate It! (Map Skills)
• Early (Meso and South) Americans 
• Greeks & Romans
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance & Reformation
• Industrial & Scientific Revolutions

Reading List...you will read variety of books this year possibly including the following:

• Hatchet 

• Island of the Blue Dolphins

• The Call of the Wild