Social Studies Timeline – grade 2

2015-2016
Social Studies Timeline*
4th Six Weeks: Jan. 19 - Feb. 26, 2016
The New England Colonies
 Plymouth
 The Puritans & Massachusetts Bay
 Rhode Island & Connecticut
 Work and worship in the New England Colonies
 Education in the New England Colonies
 Jonathan Edwards
 David Brainerd
 The Great Awakening
The Middle Colonies
 Manhattan Geography
 William Penn and Pennsylvania
 Penn’s City Plan
 Waterways to the Colonies
 Jobs in the Middle Colonies
 Melting Pot
5th Six Weeks: Feb. 29 – Apr. 15, 2016
The Southern Colonies
 Shops in a colonial town
 The Carolinas and Eliza Pinckney
 James Oglethorpe and Georgia
 Cash crops and plantations
 Slavery
 Anglicans and Huguenot’s
 Thirteen Colonies
The Revolutionary War
 Boston Massacre
 The colonists respond
 Events leading to war
 The Declaration of Independence
 Revolutionary War battles
 Revolutionary War Timeline
 John Adams
April 11 – 15 Terra Nova 3 Testing
*Timelines are subject to change based on the progress of the class.
Grade 2
2015-2016
Social Studies Timeline*
6th Six Weeks: Apr. 18 – May 26, 2016
A Nation is Born
 The Constitution
 The Great Compromise
 The Constitution is adopted
 President George Washington
 God’s Grace
*Timelines are subject to change based on the progress of the class.
Grade 2