Social Studies Curriculum 2016-2017

Materials are subject to change according to students' English levels, current events and changes in school's schedule of events. I see each semester composed of 4 units.

(All Vocabulary is here to review, self test.)

Introduction:

A.   Class Rules and Expectations

B.    Learning to Ask Questions

C.    Improve Listening Skills by Transcribing

D.   Afraid of Public Speaking?

E.    How Well Does Your Country Speak English?

Unit 1: Getting to Know each Other

A.   Never Have I Ever (Activity)

B.    Identity

C.    Otherness

D.   HR Review

++ the pace is much slower than anticipated and as of November 1st, we are still on unit 1, so I will skip the US Presidential Election and have Unit 2 be Human Displacement

Unit 2: US Presidential Elections

A.   US Parties

B.    The Candidates:  Clinton and Trump A Study in Contrasts

C.    Issues: Gun Control, Police in the USA, Asian American Voters, Big Money in Politics

Unit 3: Human Geography: Forced Migration and Displacement

Intro: Historical forced migrations

A.   Refugee Numbers at Record Level

B.    Trial With Migrants

C.    New Lands New Customs
D. Internet for Refugees

Unit 4: Christmas Around the World

Happy Chinese New Years!

Winter School: Nuclear Weapons

Unit 5: Civil Disobedience: 

I. Introduction

A. Thoreau

B.  Gandhi

C. American Civil Rights

1. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Rosa Parks

Group Presentations: Discrimination in Taiwan (same as a test grade)

D. Nelson Mandela

1. apartheid
2. ubuntu

II. The Asian Experience

A. Self-Immolation (Quiz)

B. Taiwan and Hong Kong

C. Asian-Americans

Yes the whole of the second semester is on Civil Disobedience!