7th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide
August to September October November Unit I: Geography Unit II: Discovery of America Unit III: Break with Britain
Map Skills Native Americans English Colonization Environment Age of Exploration British Colonial Society Culture Colonization (Spain, France, & Netherlands) Protests & Revolt
th th 17 - Constitution Day 9 - Leif Erickson Day fourth Friday - Native American Day last Friday - Native American Day 11th - Veterans Day
December January February Unit IV: American Revolution Unit V: Early Republic Unit VI: Regional Differences
Patriot's Struggle Domestic & Foreign Challenges North's Industrial Development Declaration of Independence Expansion/Manifest Destiny South's "Cotton Kingdom" Reasons for US Victory Indian Removal Policy Life for African Americans
th February 7 - Lincoln's Birthday
Holocaust & Genocide Study Irish Famine Study
March April May to June Unit VII: Divided States Unit VIII: US Civil War Unit IX: Reconstruction Era
Calls for Social Reform Union & Confederacy Presidential Assassination Abolitionist Movement New Methods of War Radical Republicans Constitutional Crisis Cost of Unity South States Restored
History of Women last Friday - Arbor Day & Bird Day
Unit I: Geography K-U-D for August & September Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Map Skills Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - geography, map, globe, atlas, location, the way to use components of the map. label and properly use map components. place, interaction, movement, region, … Earth is divided by imaginary lines to assist with locate the named lines of latitude and longitude to map components - title, key/legend, compass, scale, determining location navigation. find locations on map. locator map the reasons for different types of maps and their use different map types to acquire information. grid lines - sphere, hemisphere, latitude, longitude, practical uses. degree, Equator, Prime Meridian, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, International Date Line, … types of maps - physical, political, historical, … Environment Students know … Students understand … Students will …
area of land - continent, island, plain, plateau, basin, the different features of various landforms and identify various landforms and bodies of water with peninsula, isthmus, cape, coast, landform, hill, bodies of water. the use of a map, globe, or a diagram/illustration. mountain, valley, canyon, mesa, butte, … the features that divide the Tropical, Dry, Polar, determine the adaptations necessary for different body of water - ocean, sea, lake, bay, gulf, strait, Temperate, and Highland climate types. climate regions. aquifer, river, source, mouth, delta, tributary, glacier, ice-sheet, iceberg, … climate - weather, temperature, Water-Cycle, …
Culture Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - culture, ethnicity, economy, cultures are made up of many traits. generate examples of cultural components. government, religion, language, traits, hierarchy, there are many different cultures on the Earth. create a representation of their own cultural identity. philosophy, style, technology, art, music, history, etc. cultural difference can be a source of conflict. diversity can be a source of unity.
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Unit II: Discovery of America K-U-D for October Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Native Americans Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - native, archeology, Ice Age, tribe, … the origins of the First Americans are at this time generate a map of migration routes for the First theoretical, but supported by evidence. Americans arrival during the last Ice Age. the Native American cultures developed in response describe/identify the cultural adaptations made by to the environment of the region they settled in. Native American within their respective regions.
Age of Exploration Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - exploration, navigation, … the motivation for European exploration. identify the motives and challenges of exploration. names - Leif Erickson, Christopher Columbus, … the challenges faced by early explorers. analyze the impact of the Columbian Exchange upon th dates - October 12 , 1492 the impact of the Columbian Exchange upon both the New World and the Old World. Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Colonization (Spain, France, & Netherlands) Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - conquistador, slavery, colonization, Spain, France, and the Netherlands each took generate a map of the colonial territory claimed by colony, missionary, charter, trapper, … different approaches toward the Native American Europeans. names - Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizarro, Father population in the regions they claimed. evaluate the successes and failures of Spanish, Jacque Marquette, Louis Joliet … Spain, France, and the Netherlands organized their French, and Dutch colonial efforts. factions - Spanish, French, Dutch, Iroquois, Huron, … colonial territory based upon the natural resources available in the region they claimed.
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Unit III: Break with Britain K-U-D for November Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) English Colonization Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - privateer, settlement, tobacco, indigo, the motivation for the establishment of the Roanoke, generate a map of the Thirteen Colonies. cash crop, assembly, … Jamestown, and Plymouth colonies identify the economic and social reasons for names - Pocahontas, John Smith, John Rolfe … how/why the Thirteen Colonies were first allowed to migration of residents to the Thirteen Colonies. factions - Puritans, Pilgrims [Separatists], Quakers, express greater freedom and be self-governing. Catholics …
British Colonial Society Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - toleration, debt, export, import, the cultural differences which existed across the evaluate the daily life of British colonists. Triangular Trade, customs, smuggle, Middle Thirteen Colonies. generate a map of the economic relationship Passage, petition, … the geographical features of the Thirteen Colonies between Britain and the Thirteen Colonies. names - Benjamin Franklin, … influenced their cultural development. the Triangular Trade economic relationship.
Protests & Revolt Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - militia, delegate, tyranny, repeal, protest, the dramatic change in Britain's relationship with the identify different protest methods utilized by British quartering, boycott, tar and feather, Midnight Ride, Thirteen Colonies that followed the French and colonists to encourage political change. confiscate, … Indian War. make connections (cause & effect) between names - King George III, George Washington, the meaning behind the protest slogan "No taxation legislation passed by the British Parliament and Chief Pontiac, Samuel Adams, John Adams, … without representation". reactions by American colonists. factions - Patriots, Loyalists, neutral, Parliament & the the way legislation passed by Britain's Parliament Crown, … divided the population of the Thirteen Colonies. the reasons American colonists began armed conflict against Britain.
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Unit IV: American Revolution K-U-D for December Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Patriot's Struggle Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - revolution, logistics, mercenary, the strengths and weaknesses of the British and the compare/contrast the strengths and weaknesses of strategy, tactics, siege, morale, … Americans at the beginning of the conflict. both sides in the American Revolution. factions - Continental Army, British Army, Royal Navy, the difficulty colonial militias and the US Continental state militias … Army experienced early in the American Revolution. names - General George Washington, …
Declaration of Independence Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - declaration, traitor, preamble, … who was in support of independence and the reasons interpret the persuasive arguments expressed in the documents - Common Sense, Declaration of they were willing to risk their lives for it. document. Independence, … the cultural values expressed by the Declaration of define the “natural rights” presented in the names - Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Independence. Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, … the Declaration of Independence alters the tone of evaluate the influence of the Declaration of dates – July 2nd, 1776 & July 4th, 1776, … the conflict from an armed rebellion into a political Independence upon the conflict. revolution.
Reasons for US Victory Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - ally, guerrilla (partisan), ratify, treaty, … US victory on the battlefield encouraged support evaluate reasons for US victory. documents - the Crisis, … from Britain’s rivals (France, Spain, etc.). predict the potential consequences of a US defeat. names - Thomas Paine, … strategy and tactics used by the US at Saratoga and Yorktown brought about US victory.
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Unit V: Early Republic K-U-D for January Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Domestic & Foreign Challenges Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - confederation, ordinance, territory, the reasons the Articles of Confederation failed. analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the early arsenal, compromise, amend, due process, the importance of compromise for the Constitutional US government. precedent, inaugurate, political party, alien, sedition, Convention to succeed (3/5ths Compromise). neutrality, isolationism, embargo, doctrine, the domestic and foreign challenges early US leaders diplomacy, … confronted to hold our nation together. documents - Articles of Confederation, US Constitution, ... factions - Federalist, Democratic-Republican … names - James Madison, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacajawea, Chief Tecumseh and the Prophet, James Monroe, … Expansion/Manifest Destiny Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - Manifest Destiny, expansion, annex, cede, the cultural factors that encouraged Manifest Destiny generate a map of US territorial expansion during the pioneer, mountain man, converts, homestead, … the diplomatic and military methods used by the US to early to mid 1800's. names - General Andrew Jackson, acquire territory. describe what life was like for early pioneers. President William McKinley, Steven Austin, environmental conditions in the US West made life a identify the consequences of Manifest Destiny. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Samuel Huston, challenge and difficult for pioneers. President James Polk, …
Indian Removal Policy Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - repatriation, Trail of Tears, genocide … that in spite of efforts by the Native Americans to explain the cultural, economic, and political documents - Indian Removal Act, … follow legal treaty agreements and fit into US motivations behind US Indian Removal Policy. names - President Andrew Jackson, Chief Black Hawk, society, they were still pressured to give up make connections between US Indian Removal Policy Chief John Ross, … property and territory and other historical violations of human rights or factions - Five Civilized Tribes [Cherokee, Chickasaw, forced repatriation during the Trail of Tears would acts of genocide. Choctaw, Creek, & Seminole] today be classified as a violation of human rights.
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Unit VI: Regional Differences K-U-D for February Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) North's Industrial Development Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - textile, Industrial Revolution, reasons the North US began to participate in the complete a mind-map of the different cultural, interchangeable parts, canal, water-power, early Industrial Revolution. economic, environmental, and transportation steam-power, railroad, telegraph, … how/why water and steam improved manufacturing. infrastructure that define the US North as a unique names - Eli Whitney, … communications and transportation technology were region in the early to mid 1800's. factions - factory/mill owners, immigrant labor … vital to industrialization. compare/contrast the North and South in the early to mid 1800’s. the commercial benefits of technological advancement. South's "Cotton Kingdom" Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - cotton gin, … the role of cotton in the creation of an upper-class complete a mind-map of the different cultural, factions - cotton plantation owners, small farmers, elite in the South US. economic, environmental, and transportation African American slaves, freed slaves, … that textile manufacturers in the US North and infrastructure that define the US South as a unique Britain allowed for the expansion of slavery and region in the early to mid 1800's. economic success of the US South. compare/contrast the North and South in the early to mid 1800’s.
Life for African Americans Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - racism, discrimination, segregation, daily life for both slaves and free-blacks was filled describe the living conditions for African Americans oppression, overseer, slave quarters, whip, with discrimination, segregation, and oppression. enslaved in the US during the mid to late 1800's. restraints (shackles & manacles), slave codes, despite strict limitations put upon African Americans, identify ways African Americans maintained their defiance, … they kept their cultural identity. cultural identity. names - Nat Turner, …
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Unit VII: Divided States K-U-D for March Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Calls for Social Reform Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - reform, asylum, … in the early US, some Americans realized our society evaluate the goals of early 1800’s reformers, and if names - Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, did not respect the rights of many of its citizens. they were achieved. Prudence Crandall, Susan B. Anthony, … the Second Great Awakening transformed religion in compare/contrast reform goals in the early 1800’s the US to encourage reform. with calls for reform today. during the early to mid 1800's demands for fairness and justice lead concerned Americans to cooperate together in search of political change.
Abolitionist Movement Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - abolitionist, … the origins in the North of anti-slavery efforts. compare/contrast attitudes in the North & South names - William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, the justifications in the South to continue slavery towards the Abolitionist Movement. Angelina & Sara Grimke, Sojourner Truth, and their reaction to anti-slavery efforts. analyze the risks for participation in anti-slavery Harriet Tubman, … African American efforts to gain acceptance of their efforts in the North & South. faction – Underground Railroad, … legal rights, and social equality. anti-slavery efforts took many forms (public expression, legal court challenges, and illegal participation i.e. “Underground Railroad”). Constitutional Crisis Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - sectionalism, secede, fugitive, martyr, … America remained divided into regional sections describe the geographic and political impact of names - Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, based upon acceptance or rejection of slavery. compromise efforts by the US Congress and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Steven Douglas, Dred Scott, abolitionists and slave owners each sought to US Supreme Court to resolve the issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, … convert any acquired territory into new states that Identify key events which escalated the conflict factions - Democratic Party, Republican Party, supported their faction in the US Congress. between the North & South. Confederate States of America [CSA], … armed conflict between the North and South was not caused by a single event, but a series of escalations.
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Unit VIII: US Civil War K-U-D for April Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Union & Confederacy Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - infantry, cavalry, artillery, … the strengths and weaknesses of the Union and the compare/contrast the strengths and weaknesses of names - Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, … Confederacy at the time of secession. both sides in the US Civil War. factions - Union [North], Confederacy [South], the unrealistic expectations on both sides that the describe the goals the Union and Confederacy border states, … conflict would be easily won. wanted to achieve. the Union's and Confederacy's military strategy and Identify the military strategies the Union and battlefield tactics during the US Civil War. Confederacy chose to follow.
New Methods of War Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - casualty, martial law, habeas corpus, the US Civil War saw significant shifts in US policy by interpret the intentions of the Emancipation emancipation, proclamation, draft, … issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and at the Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address documents - Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address. describe the changing roles of African Americans and Gettysburg Address, … the ways African American’s and women’s roles women during the US Civil War. expanded during the US Civil War. identify the impact new technology had upon the new military technology and lack of medical conflict. advancements dramatically impacted casualty rates.
Cost of Unity Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - profiteer, war by attrition, the amount of damage suffered by the Confederacy. describe the consequences of “total war”. total war [scorched earth], … the US Civil War remains the worst military conflict identify the reasons the US Civil War was the worst in names - Ulysses S. Grant, Phillip Sheridan, in our nation's history in terms of casualty numbers, US history. William Tecumseh Sherman, … damage to infrastructure, and loss of property.
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Unit IX: Reconstruction Era K-U-D for May to June Know Understand Do (facts, formulas, vocabulary, dates, procedures) (Important “big ideas”, utilize skills) (demonstration skills, express essential truths) Presidential Assassination Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - Reconstruction, freedmen, President Abraham Lincoln's aspiration that forgiving explain the motivation for, and impact of, Freedman's Bureau, black codes, assassination, … the South would help achieve national unity. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. documents - 13th Amendment, … the dramatic impact of President Abraham Lincoln's names - John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, … assassination upon the process of Reconstruction.
Radical Republicans Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - sharecropping, scalawag, carpetbagger, … the way Republicans in the US Congress attempted explain what the Republican Party tried to achieve documents - 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, … to impose cultural change upon the US South. with passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments. factions - Radical Republicans, "black" citizens, the reasons residents in the US South either accepted Evaluate the reasons the US South resisted efforts to "white" former Confederates, … or rejected Reconstruction efforts. achieve equality for African Americans.
South States Restored Students know … Students understand … Students will …
vocabulary - poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, the reasons Reconstruction efforts came to a halt describe conditions for African Americans once the lynch, … after the Presidential election of 1876. US South regained their autonomy. documents - Compromise of 1877, Jim Crow Laws, the impact upon African Americans across the US identify the setbacks and dangers the Plessy v. Ferguson, … once Reconstruction efforts were abandoned by African American community experienced. factions - Ku Klux Klan [KKK], … advocates in the US North. evaluate the way the failure of Reconstruction efforts still impact our nation today.
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