About the Course

Welcome to 6th grade Social Studies (World History) course!

Please click on the various links to the left for information about homework and printable documents such as assignments, rubrics, projects, etc.

 

Bring your Interactive Notebook to class every day!

 

Textbooks:      World History: Ancient Civilizations, Holt McDougal, 2012

                       The World in Ancient Times series, Oxford University Press, 2005.

                       History Alive!, Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, 2004.  

 

The content of this course will be concerned with various historical periods of world civilization. We will concentrate on the following periods:

 

 

Ancient Civilizations:

Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Hebrews, China and India

Classical Civilizations:  

Ancient Greece and Rome

 

 

There will be a comprehensive final exam at the end of the 4th quarter.  Students need material from the entire year in order to be successful.