Library & Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
Summer, 1998

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Knowing the Curriculum

It helps to know the topics that young adults are studying so that the librarian can acquire and recommend the most literary of the sources that might not only be useful but perhaps enjoyable. One such curricular topics lists is from:

History-Social Science Framework for California (California State Department of Education, 1988)

Grade Five - United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation.

• The Land and People Before Columbus
  Age of Exploration
  Settling the Colonies
  The Virginia Settlement
  Life in New England
  The Middle Colonies
  Settling the Trans-Appalachian West
  The War for Independence
  Life in the Young Republic
  The New Nation's Westward Expansion
  Linking Past to Present: The American People, Then and Now
  

Grade Six - World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations.

• Early Humankind and the Development of Human Societies
  The Beginnings of Civilization in the Near East and Africa: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Cush
  The Foundation of Western Ideas: The Ancient Hebrews and Greeks
  West Meets East: The Early Civilizations of India and China
  East Meets West: Rome
  

Grade Seven - World History and Geography: Medieval and Early Modern Times

• Connecting with Past Learnings: Uncovering the Remote Past
  Connecting with Past Learnings: The Fall of Rome
  Growth of Islam
  African States in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
  Civilizations of the Americas
  China
  Japan
  Medieval Societies: Europe and Japan
  Europe During the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution
  Early Modern Europe: The Age of Exploration of the Enlightenment
  Linking Past to Present
  

Grade Eight - United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict

• Connecting with Past Learnings: Our Colonial Heritage
  Connecting with Past Learnings: A New Nation
  The Constitution of the United States
  Launching the Ship of State
  The Divergent Paths of the American People: 1800-1850
  The West
  The Northeast
  The South
  Toward a More Perfect Union: 1850-1879
  The Rise of Industrial America: 1877-1914
  Linking Past to Present
  

Grade Nine - Elective Courses in History - Social Science

• Our State in the Twentieth Century
  Physical Geography
  World Regional Geography
  The Humanities
  Comparative World Religions
  Area Studies: Cultures
  Anthropology
  Psychology
  Sociology
  Women in Our History
  Ethnic Studies
  Law - Related Education
  

Grade Ten - World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

• Unresolved Problems of the Modern World
  Connecting with Past Learnings: The Rise of Democratic Ideas
  The Industrial Revolution
  The Rise of Imperialism and Colonialism: A Case Study of India
  World War I and Its Consequences
  Totalitarianism in the Modern World: Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia
  World War II: Its Causes and Consequences
  Nationalism in the Contemporary World
  The Soviet Union an China
  The Middle East: Israel and Syria
  Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana and South Africa
  Latin America: Mexico and Brazil
  

Grade Eleven - United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century

• Connecting with Past Learnings: The Nation's Beginnings<
  Connecting with Past Learnings: The United States to 1900
  The Progressive Era
  The Jazz Age
  The Great Depression
  World War II
  The Cold War
  Hemispheric Relationships in the Postwar Era
  The Civil Rights Movement in the Postwar Era
  American Society in the Postwar Era
  The United States in Recent Times
  

Grade Twelve - Principles of American Democracy (One Semester)

• The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
  The Courts and the Governmental Process
  Our Government Today: The Legislative and Executive Branches
  Federalism: State and Local Government
  Comparative Governments, with Emphasis on Communism in the World Today
  Contemporary Issues in the World Today
  

Grade Twelve - Economics (One Semester)

• Fundamental Economic Concepts
  Comparative Economic Systems
  Microeconomics
  Macroeconomics
  International Economic Concepts
  

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