SOCIAL STUDIES
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Intro
Social Studies at Lynnhaven asks students to think like historians and act like citizens. Students work with primary sources, including letters, maps, photographs, speeches, and data, to ask questions, weigh evidence, and build arguments about the past and present. Richmond is our classroom: students study history where it happened and meet the people shaping policy today. Our five-year sequence moves from the local to the global and back home again, with an unusually deep two-year study of United States history at its center.
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Graduation Requirements
Students complete four credits of social studies: Modern World History, U.S. History I, U.S. History II, and Government. 8th graders take Civics, Economics & Geography, which lays the foundation for the sequence. Beginning in 10th grade, eligible students may choose Honors coursework, and juniors and seniors may take Advanced Placement courses.
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Civics, Economics, & Geography (Grade 8)
Students explore how communities work: how places shape people, how economies function, and how citizens participate in government. The year ends with the Cultural Landscape project, where students investigate a place that matters to them and the people and forces that shaped it.
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Modern World History (Grade 9)
Beginning with a study of world geography, students trace the forces that built the modern world: empires, revolutions, industrialization, global wars, and decolonization. Students learn to read the world through maps and sources, and to connect global events to the lives of ordinary people.
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United States History I & II (Grades 10-11)List Item 2
Rather than racing through American history in a single year, Lynnhaven students spend two full years with it. That gives them time to go deep: reading primary sources closely, debating competing interpretations, and researching questions of their own. Virginia’s and Richmond’s stories run throughout, with field study at the historic sites and museums in our backyard.
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US Government & Policy (Grade 12)
Seniors examine how American government works, and how it could work better. Students study the Constitution, the courts, elections, and public policy, and engage directly with civic life in Virginia’s capital city. Eligible seniors may take AP U.S. Government and Politics.
