Overview

To ensure consistent vertical and horizontal alignment of educational standards, Frenship ISD Social Studies classes will... 

• implement a curriculum of common terminology, skills, and student expectations

• foster development of personal accountability

• construct understanding and awareness of broader social and cultural issues so that all CISD students will learn to conceptualize and connect ideas and apply thinking and reasoning skills as they become productive, active citizens in a global society.

Guiding Principles 

• Social studies instruction should be relevant and meaningful.

• Social studies instruction should involve active participation, so students will acquire the ability and desire to become fully engaged in the activities of society.

• Social studies instruction should allow the use of critical and creative thinking skills in relevant situations for use in student study, presentations, and classroom discussion.

• Social studies should help students recognize each person as a valuable individual, encourage respect for the civil rights of all people, and emphasize students shared heritage.

Grade                                                        Content

Kindergarten                                           Introduction to basic social studies concepts

First Grade                                               Home, school and community, with some                                                                                           introduction to the state and nation

Second Grade                                           Community, with continued focus on the state                                                                                    and nation

Third Grade                                             Impact of the individual on communities, past                                                                                   and present, here and there, with continued                                                                                   focus on the state and nation

Fourth Grade                                           Texas in the Western Hemisphere

Fifth Grade                                               United States Studies

Sixth Grade                                              Contemporary World Societies

Seventh Grade                                        Texas Studies

Eighth Grade                                            United States Studies through Reconstruction

High School Courses                               World Geography Studies

                                                                    PAP/GT World Geography Studies

                                                                    AP Human Geography 

                                                                    World History Studies

                                                                    PAP/GT World History Studies

                                                                    AP World History

                                                                    United States History Studies since Reconstruction     

                                                                    AP United States History Studies

                                                                    Dual Credit United States History Studies

                                                                    United States Government

                                                                    Dual Credit Introduction to Psychology 

                                                                    Psychology

                                                                    Dual Credit Introduction to Sociology

                                                                    Sociology

                                                                    Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise                                                                             System and Its Benefits

                                                                    Holocaust and World War II

                                                                    European History

                                                                    Dual Credit Western Civilization