NHS Social Studies
Providing students the skills, knowledge and opportunity to become engaged and informed citizens.
Meet Your Social Studies Educators
Dave Cannon
Gina Giramma
Kristin Hayes-Leite
Mathew Joubert
Ariana Grande
Carolyn Mellors
Core Content Courses
●World History*
●Government
●AP US Government and Politics
●US History
●AP US History
●Civics and the Senior Project
* Honors Option Available
Electives
●Contemporary Issues/Digital World
●Criminal Justice
●Psychology, Socialization, Sociology
●Social and Abnormal Psychology
●AP Psychology
●War and Politics
●Law and Society
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Award Winning Student Work
●2019 Ethics Bowl State Champions
●2011-2019- C-SPAN StudentCam Documentary Competition National Winners
●2017 & 2018 First and Second Place Law Day Essay Winners
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NHS Senior Projects
Every student at Narragansett High School creates their own individualized learning experience that includes:
●Fieldwork and Mentoring
●Research Paper
●Product
●Presentation
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Additional Projects and Curriculum Focus Areas
9th Grade: World History
●State of the World: Building Global Citizenship
●Never Again: A History of Genocide
●Letter to a Senator on Foreign Policy
10th Grade: Government and Politics
●Landmark Supreme Court Cases
●C-SPAN StudentCam Documentary Project
●EVERFI Financial Literacy
11th Grade: United States History
●Immigration Debate
●Conducting Oral Histories with Veterans
●Race in U.S. Society
12th Grade: Civics and the Senior Project
●Elections and Policy Research
●Civil Rights Heroes
●Letter to the School Committee