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This fascinating course is a fun, enlivening study of early American colonial history. Students follow the lives of our ancestors as they go to school, build cities, fight wars, and work out settlements for peace.
Course Description:
Eighth grade American History covers the beginnings of America from Colonial
times through the Revolutionary War. Students learn about key historical events
in terms of their significance to the larger picture of American culture and thought.
Then students are asked to apply the knowledge and principles they have learned
from the course to the world in which they live.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening
and the development of revolutionary fervor.
- Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence,
with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights (e.g., key
phrases such as "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights").
- Analyze how the American Revolution affected other nations, especially France.
- Describe the nation's blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English
parliamentary traditions.
- Analyze the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution and the success of each in
implementing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
- Understand the principles underlying The Declaration of Independence.
