Social Studies

NHS Social Studies

Providing students the skills, knowledge and opportunity to become engaged and informed citizens. 

 

Meet Your Social Studies Educators

Dave Cannon
 Mathew Joubert
ArianaFogarty
Kathryn Jones
Olivia Tourcotte 



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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NHS Senior Projects- LEARN MORE HERE 

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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