Seventh Grade Social Studies
Mr. Ghinazzi
by Dennis Ghinazzi
Mr. Dennis Ghinazzi
Phone: (630) 493-8252
E-mail: dghinazzi@lisle202.org
Seventh Grade Social Studies
Course Outline
First Semester
Text: World Cultures and Geography
Various Supplemental Classroom Texts
Unit 1 – Exploring Geography: Group Skills, Graphic Organizers, Study Skills, Physical Geography, Cultural Geography, Group Project
Unit 3 – Latin America: Physical Geography, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, South America
Unit 6– Sub Saharan Africa: Physical Geography, West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, Note-taking Unit and African History
Unit 7 - South Asia Physical Geography, Nations of South Asia, Note-taking Unit and History of South Asia
Unit 8– East Asia: Physical Geography, China Japan, Koreas, Southeast Asia
Unit 2 – United States and Canada: Physical Geography, Regions of North America
Second Semester
Text: Exploring America’s Past, Beginnings to 1914
Various Supplemental Classroom Texts
Unit 1 – American Beginnings: First Americans, European Explorations, European Empires in America, new Spain, Struggle for Empire, English colonies, Colonial Life
Unit 2 – The New American Nation: Independence, Forming a New Nation, Launching the United States
Unit 3 – Building a Strong Nation: Expansion and War, Northern Manufacturing, South and King Cotton
Unit 4 – Seeking Growth and Change: Reform Movements, Westward Expansion
