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 * [[image:ODwyer.JPG width="103" height="108" align="left"]]Linda O'Dwyer, M. Ed.- Team 7A
 * Parker Junior High School
 * 7th Grade U.S. History Teacher - Room 16

Hi! Welcome to my home page! I hope you find this website useful. Please view the class syllabus to become familiar with the curriculum and expectations. Other links are listed on the left, and below, which include my teaching career and personal information, classroom supplies, curriculum information, and homework and classwork for each core. If you need to contact me, you can send me an email me at lodwyer@sd161.org or leave a voicemail message at 708-647-5489 and I will return your call at my earliest convenience.
 * ===Teacher Bio ===
 * ===Classroom Supplies ===
 * ===[[file:7th Grade US History Course Syllabus 2012-2013.doc|7th Grade US History Course Syllabus 2012-2013]] ===
 * ===[[file:lodwyer/PG -13 Film Clip Permission Slips.doc|PG -13 Film Clip Permission Slips.doc]] ===
 * **NOTE-Students will receive the US History Course Syllabus the first week of school. A parent/guardian and student signature is requested as acknowledgement that it has been read and understood.**

=Curriculum:= 7th Grade Social Studies covers United States History beginning with Colonialism and ends the year with Imperialism, keeping with the Social Studies theme, we also study geography, economics, and sociology. Here are links to the curriculum as studied in chronological order.
 * =1st Quarter- Unit 1- Thinking Like a Historian=
 * =2nd Quarter- Unit 2- Framing our American Democracy and Mock Trial Simulation=
 * =3rd Quarter- Unit 3- Manifest Destiny, Research-African American Biography, Unit 4-Sectionalism Division Revision=
 * =4th Quarter- Unit 5- Industrialism, Unit 6-Chicago History, Unit 7-Imperialism=

The American Journey textbook can be viewed online at [|www.glencoe.com] Click on the following link that provides the password to use this website at home. ONLINE INTERACTIVE TEXTBOOK: