8^th Grade History Syllabus
Brain Research
Study/Note taking Skills

• Introduction

Unit 1 – The Scientific Revolution
Unit 2 – Age of Enlightenment
Unit 3 – Age of Enlightened Despots
Unit 4 – The Church before the Revolution
The French and Indian War and lead up to The American Revolution
The American Revolution
The New Nation and the Constitution
Unit 5 – French Revolution
Unit 6 – Many Revolutions
Unit 7 – Napoleon
Unit 8 – Napoleonic Wars
Westward Expansion
Unit 9 – Metternich’s Europe
Unit 10 – 11 Romanticism and Revolt part 1 and 2
Unit 12 – The Triumph of Liberalism
Unit 13 – The Era of Change and Conflict
Unit 14 – New Powers / Old Battles
Unit 15 - Into the New Century
Unit 16 – Europe at War Again
Unit 17 – The Great War
Unit 18 – The Rise of Totalitarianism
Unit 19 – World War II
Unit 20 – We will end the year with "The End of a War / Beginning of a New World"