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BROWNSVILLE
2015-2016 COURSE SYLLABUS
Yolanda Cantu
Principal
Carlos Moreno
Course Description:
Students study people, places, and societies of the contemporary world. Societies for study are from the following regions of the
world: Europe, Russia and the Eurasian republics, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Southwest
Asia-North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific realm. Students describe the
influence of individuals and groups on historical and contemporary events in those societies and identify the locations and geographic
characteristics of various societies. Students identify different ways of organizing economic and governmental systems. The concepts
of limited and unlimited government are introduced, and students describe the nature of citizenship in various societies. Students
compare institutions common to all societies such as government, education, and religious institutions. Students explain how the level
of technology affects the development of the various societies and identify different points of view about events.
Course Overview
6th Grade
1st 6 weeks:
Thinking Like a Geographer: The Worlds Geographic Patterns
Celebrate Freedom
Freedom for All: The United States and Canada
nd
2 6 weeks:
Freedom for All: The United States and Canada (Continued)
A Legacy of Colonialism: Latin America
rd
3 6 weeks:
A Legacy of Colonialism: Latin America (Continued)
We are Family: Europe
th
4 6 weeks
Empire and Ethnicity: Russia and the Eurasian Republics
A Crossroads of Diffusion: Southwest Asia / North Africa
th
5 6 weeks
Facing Challenges: Sub-Saharan Africa
Unity and Division: South Asia
th
6 6 weeks
Tradition in a Modernizing World: East and Southeast Asia
Adapting Down Under: Pacific Realm
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Jubilee Academic Center does not discriminate against any member of its community on the basis of gender, race,
national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, or physical, mental,
emotional, or learning disabilities or handicap in educational programs or activities.
Yolanda Cantu
Principal
Carlos Moreno
Classroom Rules:
Each Student Is Expected to:
Each student is expected to follow The 5 Ps:
Prompt
Prepared
Polite
Productive
Patient
Yolanda Cantu
Principal
Carlos Moreno
Testing days:
Thursday
Retesting will take place upon student failure on a major assessment administered during a six
weeks grading period. Six Weeks Tests and Semester Exams do not qualify for retesting.
Retesting must occur within (10) days and may raise the score only to a maximum of (70).
Retest days:
Yolanda Cantu
Principal
Carlos Moreno
Make-Up Work:
When a student is absent, he/she must make arrangements for make-up work on the day they
return to school. The teacher and student can decide when the work is due.
Late Work:
If the student does not turn in an assignment on the date it is due, he/she will have 1
opportunity to turn it in on the next day for a (70) past that It will be considered a (0).
Cheating:
Cheating is interpreted as a procedure which involves the unauthorized giving or receiving help,
offering or seeking aid, or the use of material prepared in advance for use on an assessment.
Cheating also involves books, notes or technology in any form being used during an examination
without the permission of the teacher. The penalty is a zero (0) on that work, and a failure for
the semester (which will be recorded as a zero (0) in the teachers grade book) if cheating occurs
a second time during the same semester.
Yolanda Cantu
Principal
Carlos Moreno
Parent Signature:_____________________________Date:________________
Student
Signature:_____________________________Date:________________
Yolanda Cantu
Principal
Carlos Moreno