Social Studies

The Social Studies curriculum follows a three-year junior school cycle: A) American Studies, B) World Cultures and Geography, C) Ancient History. It promotes an understanding of historical concepts through discussion, oral reading, projects, research, and report writing. A student, who remains at Linden Hill for a minimum of three years, will receive the full extent of the junior boarding school’s Social Studies curriculum. The freshman history class is World History.

Social Studies Goals

To interpret and draw maps showing ability to understand and appreciate geography and cartography
To create charts, graphs and tables to demonstrate understanding of historical topics
To find information in various reference resources such as textbooks, atlases, almanacs, encyclopedias
To use technology as a discovery tool
To create written and oral reports
To demonstrate understanding with hands on projects
To be actively involved in discussion and debate
To develop time lines
To read historical material, fiction and nonfiction, with understanding and comprehension
To understand cause and effect relationships
To form fact and opinion/point of view statements

Assessment
The way in which each student accepts responsibility for his own learning is integral to assessment. Self-confidence, oral reading skills, and verbal articulation of thoughts and ideas are means of measuring growth. Individual and group projects, homework assignments, class participation, teacher observations, quizzes and test are measures that contribute to each student’s grade.

The buildings and grounds have changed some but the boys remain much the same, wanting to belong and make friends, trying to learn and reach their potential. The labels they come with may be shifting but what we do, how we teach and the community we create, still works and changes lives – ours and the boys.
- PK Sanieski, Literature and Composition