Social Studies
Al González
Block C (Day 2, 8:35 am - 10:25 am)
 
	This year your child will be learning about Latin America and Canada.  Your child 
will gain a well rounded knowledge about the Western Hemisphere of our planet, along 
with what s/he learned in the fifth grade about the United States.  While learning about 
the aforementioned cultures, your child will be engaged in reading a text book to gain 
information, increasing her/his vocabulary, working on group projects and making 
PowerPoint presentations, typing reports on the computer, researching (using books, 
texts, encyclopedia, newspapers, magazines, television, and the Internet), and culminate 
with a Latin American and Canadian market day where all the 6th graders will get to make 
food or hand-made artifacts that can be sold and bought with class money.  If you have 
expertise in any of these areas please contact me and I'll schedule you to come in and 
do a presentation or to help out.  Thank you.

I.	Course Description/Overview

 	A.	Geography
  		1.	Map skills will be reviewed and built upon.	
 	B.	Overview
 		1.	Latin America
			a)	Students will get a broad picture of this vast area.
		2.	Canada
			a)	Students will get an idea about this vast country.
 	C.	Peoples
  		1.	Students will begin a study of the people that make up the 
			Americas and their history.  We will follow the plight of the 
			Natives of these lands, their struggles through conquest, 
			colonization, and independence.
	D.	Individual Countries
		1.	Latin America
			a)	At this point we will begin a country by country study 
				of all the major Latin America countries from Central 
				and South America to the Caribbean.
		2.	Canada
			a)	Finally, we will do an in depth study of our closest 
				neighboring country.

Year Plan

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