Course Purpose and Description
Students will study California history including it’s geography and early Native Americans. We will move on to Spanish Exploration and colonization, Spanish missions and other settlements in California and Mexican California. We will also cover Westward expansion and its effects on California including the Gold rush and Railroads, California Statehood, immigration, all the way through the Great Depression and World War II. The course will finish with the rise of industry in California and its cultural developments. In addition, this class will provide songs, music and hands on activities to help students remember classroom concepts and make history alive. The part of the brain that hears and learns music is the
most resilient place for memory…Sing it…You’ll never forget it.”
Materials
Students will be using Social Studies Alive! California's Promise Students
should order the student notebook. https://shop.teachtci.com/SSA-
Californias-Promise-2018-Interactive-Student-Notebook
Students may also order the student subscription but that is optional as I will
send pdf’s of pertinent information over Schoology.
https://shop.teachtci.com/SSA-Californias-Promise-2018-Student-
Subscription
There will also be music upload of the songs we will be learning in class. *The textbook is included in the course and it is on our learning management system. Students may download and print each chapter or just read online.
Expectations Students are expected to attend classes regularly and arrive to each class on time with good learning attitudes. Students will be responsible for completing the in between hours of assignments outside of class each week. The primary learning opportunity for this course will be through reading, stories, watching videos, completing home assignments, sharing together what we are learning with back and forth exchange and learning through song. All assignments and grades will be recorded through our learning management system