America`s School of Heroes

America’s School of Heroes
Middle School 137
109-15 98th Street, Ozone Park, N.Y. 11417
Tel: 1-718-659-0471 Fax: 1-718-659-4594
http://www.heroesofms137.org
Laura Mastrogiovanni, Principal
Assistant Principals:
Elizabeth Orsini-Fox • Mark A. Main • C. Lorri Ellis • Zoanne Wilkins • Michael Troy
GRADE 7 SOCIAL STUDIES
CURRICULUM AND PACING CALENDAR
MONTH
SEPTEMBER
UNIT
I
Early Encounters:
Native Americans &
Explorers
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
II
Colonial America
TOPICS
Concept of History
Why we study history
What is geography?
Five characteristics/elements
Ice Age-Crossing Beringia
Asian Hunters settling in the Americas
Native Americans (prior to the 1500’s)
Different tribes and settlements
European Exploration and Navigation
(1450-1600’s)
Gutenberg’s Printing Press (1454)
Navigational Tools
Columbian Exchange
Explorers and Colonization from:
Spain, Portugal. France, Holland, England
Columbus, Cabot, Verrazano, Cartier,
Vespucci, DeLeon, Balboa, Magellan,
Cortes, Coronado, Pizzaro
Protestant Reformation (1517)
Henry VIII
Colonial Settlement (1550-1750)
Jamestown (1607)
Pilgrims & Puritans
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Salem Witch Trials (1655)
New England Colonies/Settlements
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Connecticut
Middle Colonies/ Settlements
New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Delaware
Southern Colonies/Settlements
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia
North & South Carolina
Transatlantic Trade (1600’s)
Mercantilism
MIDTERM REVIEW
JANUARY
II
American
Revolution
Colonial Growth (1607-1770)
Iroquois Confederacy (c. 1570)
French & Indian War (1754)
Treaty of Paris (1763)
American Revolution (1763-1781)
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act (1765)
Boston Massacre (1770)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
“Taxation without Representation”
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
Battle of Lexington & Concord (1775)
Important Figures:
Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas
Jefferson, George Washington, Benedict
Arnold, Thomas Paine
General Cornwallis
MIDTERM EXAM
2nd Week In January
1st and 2nd Continental Congress
MARCH
III
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Winter at Valley Forge (1777-1778)
Battle of Saratoga (1777)
Battle of Yorktown
Developing our Nation
Plan for Government
A NEW NATION
APRIL
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Shay’s Rebellion (1787)
Ratification of the US Constitution (1788)
Important Figures:
John Adams, John Jay, James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton
Virginia Plan (1787)
New Jersey Plan (1787)
The Great Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise
Developing the Constitution (1787)
3 Branches of Government
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Federal and State Powers
Bill of Rights (1791) Personal Liberties
Washington’s Policies
IV
A NATION GROWS
MAY
JUNE
Westward Expansion
Adams’ Presidency
Alien & Sedition Acts (1798)
Jefferson’s Presidency/
Marbury vs. Madison (1803)
Louisiana Purchase (1804) purchased from
France
Lewis and Clark (1804)
War of 1812
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
The Growth of Industry (1800’s)
Eli Whitney (1793)
Francis Lowell (1814)
Henry Clay (1824) The American System
Manifest Destiy (1818-1853)
Jacksonian Era (1824-1845)
The Tariff Debate (1828)
The Webster Hayne Debate (1830)
Worcester vs, Virginia
The Trail of Tears (1835)
War with Mexico (1821)
California Gold Rush (1849)
V
Events that lead to the Civil War
CIVIL WAR
(1861-1865)
AND
Compromise of 1850
RECONSTRUCTION
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Lincoln elected President (1860)
Southern States form the
Confederate States (1861)
Attack on Fort Sumpter (1861)
Civil War Battles
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Surrender at Appomattox (1865)

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