7th Grade: Christopher Columbus

http://www.columbusnavigation.com/

8th Grade: The Gettysburg Address

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/

TCAP PREP

As we get ready to take the TCAP tests next week, I wanted to post a link to the standards for Social Studies. Look through them and see use them as a review prior to the test next week. The Social Studies test will be on Thursday of next week, and there are usually around 60 questions for the Social Studies portion of the test.

7th GRADE STANDARDS

8th GRADE STANDARDS

7th Grade The Renaissance

And the family who more than anyone else, was responsible for bringing about the Renaissance in Europe..particularly in Florence...the Medici.

4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861

The attack on Fort Sumter, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina was the start of the Civil War. Found out more about this historical landmark here.