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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Using the Black Death of 1347–1351 as a case study, learners judge sources for reliability and usefulness, separate long-term causes from triggers, trace intended and unintended consequences, and build a causal argument that ranks causes with evidence.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Learners connect four medieval worlds: the manors and Church of western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic caliphates and Tang–Song China. They trace how law, learning, printing and gunpowder moved between them, examine the Crusades as conflict and exchange, and argue whether the printing press caused the Reformation.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Learners follow gold and salt across the Sahara to the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, ride the monsoon winds to the Swahili coast, Great Zimbabwe and the fleets of Zheng He, and study how the Aztec and Inca organized huge states. They compare these networks and source the outsiders' and insiders' accounts that describe them.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Learners examine why Europeans sailed into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans after 1400, what the Columbian Exchange moved between hemispheres, how small Spanish forces toppled the Aztec and Inca states with Indigenous allies and epidemics, and how the Atlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans across the ocean. Every lesson includes the perspectives of those who were colonized and enslaved.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Learners compare two answers to an old question, where does a ruler's power come from? They examine divine-right absolutism under Louis XIV, the long English struggle to limit kings from Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights, and the Enlightenment ideas of Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau. They read short public-domain excerpts, trace the ideas into the Declaration of Independence, and debate who was left out.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Learners study four kinds of revolution: a revolution in how people investigated nature, political revolutions in North America, France, Haiti and Latin America, and the early Industrial Revolution in Britain. They compare causes and outcomes, ask who gained rights and who did not, and read data about a changing economy.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
Between 1790 and 1850 the United States doubled its territory, built canals and mills, and grew rich on cotton. Learners study these developments through the eyes of different people: settlers and merchants, enslaved people, Cherokee and other Native nations forced from their homelands, young women in the Lowell mills, Irish immigrants and the women who met at Seneca Falls. They then argue whether 'progress' is the right word for the period.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7
In this project course, learners design and complete a comparative history investigation of two revolutions or two trade networks from the year. They refine a research question, take notes responsibly (quoting, paraphrasing and citing), corroborate evidence across several sources, build a comparative causal thesis, and write and reflect on a full project essay.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Every financial decision starts with limited resources and competing goals. Through fictional teenagers' choices, learners distinguish needs from wants, write SMART goals and calculate the saving needed to reach them, measure opportunity costs in money and time, think at the margin, and learn to ignore sunk costs. The elective uses fictional people and numbers and never gives personal financial advice.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
What happened on King Street in Boston on the night of 5 March 1770? Learners investigate the Boston Massacre through an engraving, a British officer's account and trial testimony. They practice sourcing, contextualization, close reading and corroboration, separate perspective from bias and propaganda, and write their own carefully corroborated account.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
How does work turn into income, and income into take-home pay? With fictional workers, learners compare hourly, salary and other pay, calculate overtime under the federal rule, convert salaries to hourly rates, trace gross pay to net pay through payroll taxes and a fictional withholding table, apply a fictional progressive tax table (marginal versus average rates), and weigh career choices using human capital and total compensation. No real tax filing advice is given.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Learners investigate why the first US government under the Articles of Confederation struggled, how delegates in 1787 built a new Constitution through hard compromises (including compromises over slavery), and how the Constitution divides power among three branches and between the nation and the states. They read the Preamble, the Tenth Amendment and Federalist No. 51, and weigh the ratification debate.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Learners trace how each new territory reopened the question of slavery, from the Missouri Compromise to Dred Scott, study the resistance of enslaved people and abolitionists, read the seceding states' own explanations, and follow the Civil War's turning points, including emancipation and the service of Black soldiers.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
A budget is a plan for money before it is spent. Using fictional young adults, learners build a monthly budget from net income, separate fixed from variable expenses, follow cash flow through the month to catch shortfalls, plan for irregular income and emergencies, test one common rule of thumb (50/30/20) and its limits, and adjust a budget when circumstances change.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
After the Civil War, the nation rewrote its Constitution to abolish slavery and promise citizenship, equal protection and the vote to Black men. Learners read the Reconstruction amendments closely, see how freedpeople built schools, churches and political power, trace how violence and court decisions rolled those gains back into Jim Crow, and examine who else was included in or excluded from citizenship: Chinese immigrants, Native Americans and women.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Why does starting early matter, and why can money sitting still lose value? Learners calculate simple interest (I = Prt) and compound growth (A = P(1 + r/n)^nt), estimate doubling time with the rule of 72, compare short and long time horizons, measure inflation's effect on purchasing power, approximate real returns, and learn how deposit insurance protects bank and credit union deposits. All accounts and rates are fictional, and no products are recommended.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Between the Civil War and 1920, railroads, steel and oil made the United States the world's largest industrial economy, millions of immigrants and Black Southerners moved to booming cities, workers organized and struck, and reformers fought to fix the problems industry created. Learners analyze data, sources and the debates of the era and judge what Progressive reform achieved and whom it left out.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Borrowing lets people buy now and pay later, at a price. With fictional loans and cards, learners calculate interest and total cost, see why paying only a small fixed amount on a credit card can take years, follow how loan payments split between interest and principal, compare offers by APR and total cost, learn the factor categories behind credit reports and scores, and recognize red flags of high-cost and predatory lending. No lenders or products are recommended.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Smart buying and staying safe from scams. Learners compare unit prices, recognize marketing tactics designed to speed up spending, calculate the yearly cost of subscriptions, read key contract terms, and learn the common patterns of scams (phishing, impostors, advance-fee and prize scams) and their red flags: pressure, secrecy and unusual payment methods. They practise a safe response: stop, verify through official channels, tell a trusted adult, and report.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
From the Spanish–American War of 1898 to the end of the Cold War, the United States became a world power. Learners examine debates over overseas empire, why the US entered two world wars, life and injustice on the home front, the decision to use atomic bombs from several perspectives, and the strategy of containment that shaped the Cold War.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Learners study how the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s used courts, nonviolent protest and voter registration to dismantle legal segregation, and how courts, Congress, presidents and states responded. They meet the farm workers', women's and disability rights movements, then learn a careful, non-partisan method for analyzing a civic issue using a fictional town's decision.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Life involves risks: accidents, illness, lost property and investments that fall in value. Learners calculate expected loss, compare strategies for managing risk (avoid, reduce, keep, transfer), see how insurance pools risk, work out costs under a fictional health plan (premium, deductible, copay, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum), and explore why diversification and time horizon matter when investing. Everything is fictional and conceptual; no insurance or investment advice is given.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
The elective's capstone. Learners work through a fictional household's year: Carmen and her brother Luis share an apartment and must balance their budget, build an emergency fund, decide how to finance a used car, and choose between two health plans. They calculate each piece, state their assumptions, weigh trade-offs, and write a recommendation memo that presents options fairly. Everything is fictional; nothing is personal financial advice.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 8
Learners carry out a full inquiry from compelling question to informed action. They build supporting questions, gather and evaluate sources from the year's courses and beyond, develop claims and counterclaims, write an evidence-based argument, and design a lawful, realistic civic action plan, without being told which side to take.
