Mr. Lee - Social Studies

WELCOME TO 7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES!

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• 2024-2025 7th Grade Social Studies Syllabus 

  Teacher: Mr. Lee

  Email:

  Phone: 623-376-5076 

  Office Hours: As listed in class or by appointment 

  
   

  Schedule:

  7th Grade Schedule: Period 1 Specials: 8:45-9:30 Period 2 Exploratory: 9:30-10:15 Period 3: 10:15-11:20 Period 4: 11:20-12:05 Lunch: 12:05-12:45  Period 4: 12:45-1:10 Period 5: 1:10-2:20 Period 6: 2:20-3:30

  7th GradeEarly Release Schedule: Period 1 Specials: 8:45-9:20 Period 2 Exploratory: 9:20-9:55 Period 3: 9:55-10:45 (50) Period 4: 10:45-11:35 (50) Period 5: 11:35-12:20 (45) Lunch: 12:20-1:05 Period 6: 1:05-2:00 (55)

  
   

  What we will cover:

   

  ● Influence of the Scientific Revolution on innovation and the Enlightenment on the concept of rights

  ● Revolutions around the world such as the American Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, the Cultural Revolution (Mao Zedong), and Latin American revolutions

  ● Global imperialism and its lasting consequences on regional conflict, stability, Indigenous peoples, and human movement, including slavery and involuntary migrations

  ● Impact of industrialization and the rise of organized labor

  ● Global depressions

  ● World War I and World War II including the period between the wars with the rise of fascism

  ● Cold War including origins, nuclear deterrence, and outcome

  ● Global conflicts and their consequences such as the Korean War, Vietnam War, Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Gulf War

  ● Government and economic systems such as monarchy, dictatorship, theocracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, democracy, constitutional republic, anarchy, capitalism, socialism, and communism including founders, major tenets, practices, and writings

  ● Examination of primary and secondary sources including written and oral histories, images, and artifacts

  ● Disciplinary skills and processes including change and continuity over time, multiple perspectives, using and understanding sources, and cause and effect

   

  Materials needed: 

   

  • Pencils and Pens

  • Highlighters 

  • 2 Inch Binder

  • 7 Dividers 

  
   

  Class Expectations and Rules

  •  Follow the West Wing Way! Have respect, compassion, and integrity.

  •  Be prepared at the beginning of every class with the necessary materials.

  •  Follow directions.

  •  Participate and do your best.

  • Gum, food, drinks other than water, cell phones, electronics, and headphones may not be used in the classroom (unless directed otherwise).

  • Backpacks must be left under your desk at all times.

  • Be ready to Learn, Grow, and Succeed daily.

  
   

  Attendance/Absent Policy

  One of the best ways to be successful in this class is to be present! If you are absent, it is your job to check Canvas or communicate with me. You are responsible for retrieving and completing notes, turning in coursework, and scheduling missed assessments.

   

  Grading Policies

  It is your responsibility to keep up with the coursework. If you are missing an assessment or any coursework, it will be entered as a zero and marked as missing in the gradebook until you turn it in. If an assessment or any coursework has not been turned in within one week of the the unit ending it will be marked as 49%.

   

  Late work will be accepted for full credit up to 5 days after the end of an instructional unit or as discussed with the teacher. If you score less than a 50% on an assessment or any coursework, the score will be recorded as a 50%. You have the opportunity to show mastery on unit assessments (except for District exams). Reassessments must be done within 10 school days of receiving original score and follow reassessment requirements.

  
   

  Quarter Grade Calculation

  Assessments - 80% of overall class grade

  Coursework - 20% of overall class grade

   

  Extra credit will not be offered

   

  Academic Integrity

  To be college-, career-, and community-ready, students in the Deer Valley Unified School District are expected to demonstrate academic integrity. Academic integrity is all about being honest and fair in your schoolwork. It means doing work that is entirely your own and giving credit to others (including generative Artificial Intelligence tools) through proper citation when you use their ideas or words.

  
   

  This syllabus will be the first page in your binder. I reserve the right to make

  changes to the syllabus when needed.

   

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  Return to Class August 7th 

  
   

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  course syllabus.

  
   

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