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 Why should we learn about US history in the 8th grade? (34)

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Why should we learn about US history in the 8th grade?

This school year, you will have an American History class, in your 8th grade year at our school. Why should you learn about United States History? What is the purpose of learning it? How does that learning apply to you and impact your life as a citizen living in the US? Cite some examples without getting too personal.  Do your agree or disagree with your peers? Why or why not?
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I think they should add an American Citizenship class in kindergarten and continue it through 12 The grade.

They should base it on girl/boy scouts and be involved, teach honor, and respect, and how to not have your speech controlled by PC, and to know rights. And also how to respect rights.

Unfortunately honor is void, respect is void.

Many in this generation think you have freedom, somehow they took freedom from them with one hand and sold what's not freedom as being freedom with the other hand. SNEAKY!

Self Control is to rule, it rules us, it gives power to us to rule us.

It's freedom to direct, assert, pull back, and exercise moral control in respect to self and others.

What this generation has been sold is a paper plates full of pop rocks served as a four course classy meal.

As far as history class, teach yourself over and above, more than what school teaches, because they will brain wash you! And it's not American!

History repeats itself, that's why you should know it, and school is inadequate, so take charge of your education and somehow seek a decent balance

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History is just one part of a broader education. It needs a balance - US, world, ancient, etc. And in my opinion far too much emphasis gets placed on rote memorization - like the exact dates something happened. You won't need to know the exact date a battle happened, unless you're playing trivial pursuit or competing on a game show. But you DO need to know the history basics, because when you go on to become a voting citizen it all influences what you know and how your vote manifests into the government influencing your life.

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We should learn about u.s history because it's important to us if we don't have us history

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Why not? It has a shorter history than almost any other developed countries. It won't take long.

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We should learn about US history in the 8Th grade because if we don't learn about it now or even learn more about it we won't be prepared in high school, college or even when we are adults.

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we should learn about U.S history in 8Th grade because it help you when you get in high school and college . I think having knowledge of are countries history will instill a sense of pride in knowing the history of where we come from. Finally having knowledge of are country laws and and how we became a great nation .

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us history is a big part of change so if you don't know your history how will yo tell new generations about the things that happened when you were little. how will you learn how people fixed problems in the past so that you can fix the same problem in the present .

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We should have U.S. History in the 8th grade because it gives you good background knowledge. and let's you know how the world was back then. It notifies you about your presidents. without U.S. History we would not know anything barely cause it notifies you on everything that you need to know. and the leaders who changed this world and made a difference.

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8th graders are steps away from going to high school but if they don't learn their us history they wont be prepared to learn and review new and old things

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It's important for us to learn about U.S. history because we pay some respect for the people who died for our freedom. We also learn about our history so we can prevent making the same mistake that the people in the past made. Finally, we learn about how the country had changed and evolved over the years

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We study U.S. history to learn what got us to this point and use that to continue forward. Another reason we study US history is to keep history from repeating itself. Finally, we learn it to acknowledge the people who died for us.

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I believe it is important to learn about the U.S History in 8th grade because it tells us who we are and where we came from. U.S History defines us and we define it.

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We know who and what happened about our past. & what we should know about not just african americans but whites also past.

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I think it is important to US history in ALL grades because, we learn about past events that were very important. For example slavery is an event on how us (African Americans) were migrated. I believe something bad/horrible happened to every race in history if not it is going to be made. But they never talked about on how our ancestors were kings and queens as said by my fellow teacher. Also if we never knew anything about history our minds would be completely blank about the past. We would have numerous questions.

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We should learn about U.S. history in the 8th grade so we will be able to understand what went on before we got here. Learning the history shows you how the world became how it is today. The U.S. history has lots of very important events. History can also teach you how to think in some ways. Think about decisions, as in how you should live your life. Choosing wisely about what you will say YES to and what you will say NO to. Think about how blacks were treated before you got here and how blacks are treated now after history events that led to today. Before the people in 8th grade today got here, most of our ancestors were treated very bad such as being slaves for the white people, being beat, starved, etc. The U.S. History is something very important to everyone and it's something that you should learn to know.

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I think it's important to learn about U.S. history so we can know about the past and the important events that happened in history.

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I feel that we should learn about U.S history in the 8th grade, because it gives us a sense of where we came from. I also believe that U.S history is African-American history, because without Africans to me there would be no America. Africans brought a variety of different things that has helped our country grow and that is still being used to become one of the greatest nation's ever.

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We should learn U.S. history in 8th grade so we can know are country been through. What heritage we came from an what are actual race. Also so we can know why things are the why they are. For example laws why are laws the way they are. We should know it because we should know what are city been through. An so we would know who invent a inventions was it a black person or a white person you wouldn't know if we didn't study us history. Also because we would know what invention black people made and what they stole from us.

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I think we should learn about more of what they did and why they did it. also I would like to learn why they decided to start slavery

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We should learn about US history in 8Th grade because , I believe that's this is the year when kids should be generous enough to try to learn or care about the country they are from.. I say this because kids at this age are yet to find them selves and who they really are, and starting with US history should give them a clear mind set on who they want to be or what positive characteristics they might want to pick up own..And honestly speaking don't matter what grade your in its still important to know your country history, because the U.S history is your history.

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I think we should learn about U.S history in the 8th grade because U.S history is African American history. U.S history and African American history teaches us about life learned lessons, our culture as a country, and how we became. African American history shows us how us a blacks have evolved as citizens in the United States. African American history teaches us about how our ancestors fought for freedom and liberty for better education,jobs, and just plainly things that we do today that we couldn't have back then. U.S history shows us how our country became in our economics, riches, jobs, equality and more. U.S history teaches us about our equality and rights as U.S citizens and so much more. Basically U.S history and African American history shows us how we became as a people of the U.S, our backgrounds, the wars and fights we had to go through just to be able to be the way we are today as free human beings which other people in other countries don't have. Without our U.S history we would not know all of these things, this is why it is important to learn about U.S in the 8th grade.

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We need to learn about history in 8th grade because we need to learn about are history as black learn about are clutter learn more about history of are ancestors

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We should learn about 8Th grade history because it help us learn more about are ancestors and what they did and how we got here. that is why i think we should learn 8Th grade history.

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To lean more about our history that we didn't know or would like to know cause sometimes what people tell us isn't always the truth so we have to check for ourselves

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We should learn about U.S. history in the 8th grade because studying history allows us to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors so we dont do the same things they did and work to become a better place

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I think we should learn about U.S History because history helps people to understand the changes in our society now in forever.and history also means to help people to keep track of our past, present, and our future.

You probably shouldn't.

Before learning history, you should develop your critical thinking skills - mostly so that you will understand that you are only getting the tiniest fraction of information in a history class and that you should generally treat it with a grain of salt. Heroes and villains are really just humans - Hitler was an artist, Lincoln was racist - people are complicated. So are histories - Paul Revere never yelled "the British are coming" and he was captured; Israel Bissell made a much longer and important ride without getting caught - or, maybe he didn't exist at all… ref

You should also learn who you are first. Develop social skills and make diverse friends before getting bombarded with how your "people" have been at war with this or that people for centuries, etc. If you put two kids in a room - they don't know to hate each other.

Take a communication/marketing class, not just to build up your own confidence and learn how to work with and persuade others, but to have some idea when people (like writers of history) are trying to persuade you...

When you do get to history, I think you should start with ancient history and work your way to the present. You get to see the difficulties of not having all the information and writers with known/unknown agendas and bias while preserving a little more objectivity than people will tend to do something more recent and seemingly familiar.

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I think it is important that we learn about U.S. History in eighth grade, because it is preparing for things in life such as high school,college, when we are adults, and you also get to learn about historic things people rarely talk about.

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We should learn about US history in the 8th grade because history shows us how and what got us here today. Knowing what others have done for us, we should be able to appreciate and piggyback off what they have done or do something that hasn't been done that can go down in history. Without having what people have done in history we wouldn't have what we have today which can be quite important in today's society.

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In an ideal world, one that lives in a country that has given them everything, SHOULD out of respect and honor, learn about the history of that land. It is your heritage, your ancestry, your inheritance.

But in the corrupted world that we live in, no. Most immigrants from muslim countries, or parts of africa, middle east,other asia, don't even stand for the national anthem of the nation that open their arms to give them a safe home and freedom. So of course they won't bother to learn anything about American history because we live in a time now where one can completely be against everything a country stands for and is built upon, and yet still be granted free access to housing, employment, food, money, women, and future security in that country you so despise.

If that's not fucked up, I don't know what is.

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Most immigrants from muslim countries, or parts of africa, middle east,other asia, don't even stand for the national anthem of the nation that open their arms to give them a safe home and freedom.

Do you have any source to back that one up?

and yet still be granted free access to housing, employment, food, money, women, and future security in that country you so despise.

Or that?

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I think we should learn about U.S. History because we would have a better understanding about the things that happened along time ago(Civil Rights Movement, etc)that changed how we live today.

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i agree with what nakaylaH because i see it from the same stand point as she do . Because what if we learn u.s history once and we go to high school or collage and do not understand what the teacher is talking about . that why i good to learn about u.s history.

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I think we should learn about U.S history in 8th grade because you would need to know things about your country and your culture in today's society