Kristin Kerr-Gannon

Each Friday, students will participate in a short discussion of current events called “Last Word.”

All students will have the opportunity to lead this discussion using civil conversation skills.

U.S. History to 1890 Curriculum

First Semester                                                                     Second Semester                               

The First Americans                                                                Territorial Acquisitions

Regions of Colonization and Conflict                                         Our Roots of Secession

Colonial America                                                                    The Civil War

The Slave Trade                                                                     National History Day Research

The Revolutionary Era                                                             Reconstruction/ Civil Rights Era

A New Nation and Constitution                                                 Westward Expansion

This webpage was edited by 8th grader Alden Maben

Welcome to 8th Grade Social Studies!!

Please check my handouts folder for my syllabus

  “The history of any country, presented as the history of a family,

conceals fierce conflicts of interest between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves,

capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. 

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as

Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”  - Howard Zinn, People’s History of America, 1995