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"The future is an abstraction, the 'present' but a fleeting moment, all else history”


   Scope and Sequence
      Grade EightU.S. Studies from 1607 to 1877:
          Colonization Through Reconstruction

The historical sequence continues in the eighth grade with an in-depth study of the early years of our country. This study incorporates each of the seven standards into the chronology. While students are studying a particular historic event in the United States they also look at its geographic settings, economic implications, developments in government and the role of citizens.

 Grade 8
Social Studies
Award Winners
2008-9
Brooke Knipp
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Eden Barcus
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"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it."  
 
Liberty
cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have...a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers." 
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-John Adams
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  "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always  
                   ready to guard and defend it." –

 "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years may not happen again.  Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."                                                             
                                                     
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Daniel Webster
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"We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
                       -James Madison
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