What did you learn in your High School History classes Veeky Forums? What was in the required curriculum...

What did you learn in your High School History classes Veeky Forums? What was in the required curriculum? How shitty was it?

For me, we where only required to learn history in 8th Grade and 10th (Sophomore Year) This is in Canada

Grade 8
>Fur Trade/New France
>Minimal in French and Indian War
>Confederation

>Disregard 50 Years of History Now

Grade 10
>WW1
>Great Depression
>WW2
>Cold War
>When i was doing it we only did one day of Post WW2 history.

There were optional courses you could take that were better but not much. I never took their World History course for Pre 1500s. According to my friend who took it, they learned about Rome starting with Augustus, never once mentioned the Republic, or even Caesar. They also never mentioned the Byzantines.

The worst thing by far was in the class you had to submit a formal essay. His topic given to him was who would win in a fight, a viking, legionairre or spartan. TLDR my friends history course was an episode of deadliest warrior.

How shitty was the mandatory history in your HS Veeky Forums?

Nazis are baaaaad. White people like slavery and are baaaad. White people are nazis.

stay triggered /pol/fag

>How shitty was the mandatory history in your HS Veeky Forums?

Way better than Veeky ForumsĀ“s

I took advanced placement history classes in high school and got 12 credits towards college history in my state. believe it or not non-americans, our education varies from state too state, county to county, city to city, school to school.

I got an excellent education in my public school. We covered it all, MENA-West. Unfortunately but understandably we only 4 weeks for Africa and 4 weeks for the Far East.

African history and our coverage of the 30 years war were my favorite.

In 8th grade we had to take a test on the constitution. If you didn't get a C or better you didn't go to high school.

In high school I took a western civ class. I imagine that's been replaced with a class about Nubia or some shit by now.

You are lucky. It really is the basic stuff, even in the University Level (AP here). Mostly because in Elementary you are given zip history classes.

Grade 9:
Settling of the colonies, French and Indian War, Revolution, the making of a new country, American life in the first half of the Nineteenth Century, industrialization, ended with the Civil War and Reconstruction. This was at a Catholic school, I'd have to say this guy was the best history teacher I have had. It wasn't just memorizing dates or names. It was actually looking at history, who we were, what was happening, what caused it, and what resulted from it.

Grade 10:
Transferred to public school. Took a class called World Cultures, which was taught by the high school basketball coach. Great guy, awesome personality, nicest guy you could ever meet, but he kind of just gave us a bare minimum. Learned the five pillars of Islam, about communism/socialism, how they played a part in the Cold War, ect. My favorite part had to have been the week we played a statecraft game and assigned groups of five a country on this fake map. That was cool, especially the lesson in that the original goal of the game (to win) was impossible when everyone has nukes and are able to end the world if you invade.

Grade 11:
This was a joke. I had 3 AP classes and dropped AP history for time purposes. Should never have done that. We watched Adam Sandler movies all day and when it came time for our "test," he would just read the answers off. This was supposed to cover WW1 to the present day, but all we got was dates and maps to color in. The epitome of shit public school education.

Grade 12:
Took AP government. While it was interesting and I learned a good bit, most of the class was just him trying to probe us into debating. Everytime, no matter how much he would try to get others involved, it would just devolve into the super liberal chick arguing with the two super conservative people until all three were blue in the face.

All in all, I'd give my high school history/government education a B-.

>Nazis are baaaaad. White people like slavery and are baaaad. White people are nazis.

legitimately this, an inordinate time was given to repeating debunked holocaust narratives (soap, lampshades, etc.) and about that one black kid who was killed and tied to a ceiling fan and dumped in a river for trying to molest a white woman. Civil rights, etc.

Every history class I had before college was just about repeating historical tropes relating to American history and was pointless. Went to a private, Catholic school by the way

I wish I went to a public HS, my school didn't have ant AP courses. It obviously has a fairly liberal agenda but the AP's have a much higher standard and better material than any other schlocky HS class

(Cont.)
If I had to plan a curriculum for history, it would be as follows:
Grade 9: Ancient civilization and history. We would start at the beginning of civilization, talk about what is needed for civilization to form. People's roles in a basic society. Talk about ancient empires, how they were formed, how they fell, and why they were so seemingly unstable. It would have a focus on Western civ, since this is a Western country, but of course the ancient Asian, Indian, and Mesopotamian cultures would be taught as well. It would just be a little more time spent on Egypt, Greece, and Rome. This would go up to the discovery of the New World, and also include the Treaty of Westphalia, what sovereignty is, and how it was to be treated from then on. Westphalia would be very important, and would probably be the end of the course as well.

Grade 10: American history begins. Go from setting up the colonies until the Civil War and Reconstruction. Talk about why America revolted, how the Revolution was carried out, and the ideas behind the new government being formed. Discuss how the issue of slavery was dealt with and how it set a collision course for the future. Discuss the electoral process, the small-large state compromises, and the idea that this country was a group of STATES coming together to form one federal government, not a federal government coming together and dividing the country into separate states for easier governing like in most nations. Discuss American foreign policy in the early years, how we lived, industrialization, Manifest Destiny, and then everything dealing with the Civil War.

Grade 11: Reconstruction to the Cold War. I'm running out of room and time, but I'm sure you can all figure out what would be discussed.

Grade 12: 1/2 of the year on history up until the present, kind of like a contemporary history class, and 1/2 of the year spent on economics.

Liberal and and neo-Conservative agendas really go hand in hand man. Just remember, it's not us versus them (liberals vs conservatives), we are all on the same team with competing interests. As soon as you forget that, you are buying into the mass-media us vs them mentality that sells news.

Seriously man, think about it. It's the globalists vs the anti-globalists. The liberal "indoctrination" in the public school system is a response to the things that didn't work for the majority of Americans for most of our history.

Basically, don't be a fucking shill and remember it takes two to tango.

9th Grade (was actually in a junior high, but they never let us forget that it was technically high school):
The only class offered was a semester-long state history class. At the time, I was in a two-hour honors block that was supposed to cover both classes. It didn't, because the teacher really only cared about English, so I learned even less about my state's history than people in the normal class.

10th Grade:
Three different levels of US history were offered. I took the middle level, which was labelled as honors. I didn't really learn much because the first half was retreads of the same basic information we learned over several years in elementary school, just more condensed; the second half was modern history that I already knew as well. Overall, it was probably pretty standard for American public education, and it definitely had a pro-American, we-didn't-do-anything-wrong bias to it.

By the way, this year, I also took an honors biology class that taught intelligent design and creationism (yes, both) alongside evolution. And no, this wasn't in the South.

11th Grade:
I think the standard class was a world history/civics combination, but I took AP European history. The person who taught it was very incompetent (didn't know anything about the subject matter, and only has the assignment because someone retired), so no one in the class really learned anything.

12th Grade:
I can't remember what the standard offering was. I took AP Government, which ended up being a pretty good class. I learned a lot about how the US government actually works, and what federal laws actually say and mean.

>What did you learn in your High School History classes Veeky Forums?
Arguable. I was an abominable little shit in high school and I never listened in class, so you could say nothing (indeed I don't remember much about the lessons), but I also read every letter in the textbooks on my own because I loved the subject.
>What was in the required curriculum?
Roman history, european middle ages, renaissance, age of discoveries, italian wars, protestant reformation and associated wars, spanish/austrian succession wars, 7 years war, french revolution, concert of Europe/1848/nationalism/liberalism, italian risorgimento, 1stWW, fascism, 2ndWW, didn't get past that.
>How shitty was it?
First teacher was shit, but I liked her. Second was pretty good and rather funny but kind of an ass (but then I argued a lot with him and I was an abominable little shit, so maybe I'm biased), third was very good until she reached fascism, then muh jews ensued.

In burgerland:

6th grade (start in most states where you start having separate classes for thing) half of the class was State history, other half was something useless I don't remember.

7th-8th : American History

9th : Basic World History

10th : History and Economics (basically a fused course. Here are the basics of supply and demand, here is how economies work now and then, etc...)

11th: History elective. I took European History from 1815 onwards.

12th: History / Current events. Course was designed to talk about current events in the context of history.

10th and 12th grade history was great, mostly because it was led by a vastly overqualified alcoholic who knew his shit and gave zero fucks for kid gloves.

Ancient Greece - Rome - Feudalism - Viking Age - Norwegian history from 872 to today

I went to a rural high school in Washington, Murica.

World history was an absolute joke. They had an alternating cast of substitute teachers "teach" the class every semester, and each incompetent not-teacher was supposed to cover THE ENTIRETY of world history in 4 months of a 45 min class 4x a week. None of the normie retards ever knew anything in that class either, every time she asked a question about anything there was dumbfounded silence.

AP US history was better. It was taught by the old ex-wrestling coach, but he actually enjoyed history and was a really animated and entertaining dude so it was okay. Supposed to cover everything up to the 1970s before the AP test in May, but barely made it to Pearl Harbor. Also, they made all the disadvantaged students to take that class so they'd know what a "rigorous" class felt like. At least the teacher knew how to keep order.

How do you guys even remember what you did when? Is everyone on Veeky Forums 19 years old?

Here in germany we obviously had a lot of Nazi history and WW2 stuff but I also remember A lot of Russia. From their revolution over Lenin to Stalin and all that. French Revolution was a lot too for some reason. The rest I forgot because I only got into history at the very end of school because that's when I realized that I have literally learned nothing except for reading and writing so I couldn't really get into math or physics or something cool like that.

Good lord, op's not asking you for a day to day recap (I couldn't actually remember more than three or four specific lesson myself desu), just impressions and curriculum. I'm 25 and still remember that much.

>desu
Ah fuck me now I remember why I started adding qwyf to t b h.

8th Grade - US history to the civil war
9th Grade - US history after the civil war
10th Grade - World History
11th Grade - Government
12 Grade - APUSH
I liked it

>Supposed to cover everything up to the 1970s before the AP test in May, but barely made it to Pearl Harbor
This is what always pisses me off. We'd spend an entire three months on World War II and never got past that in any of my history classes.

Me and a Middle School History teacher kept arguing about who started World War One. I said Serbia, while he said Germany. He did give our class a team Jeopardy game, but I was used as a lifeline only for my team, because.

One High School teacher did something pretty funny looking back, when discussing the Trail Of Tears, he had the students that were troublemakers in the class relocate in a corner of the room and took all their stuff to give a visual example of what the Cherokee most likely felt when moved to Oklahoma.

He also talked about the Texas Revolution, something I have not seen any other History teacher talk about in my school years.

In General: American History classes to me were:
Age Of Exploration
French And Indian War
American Revolution
Articles Of Confederation and Constitution
Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (I did have one teacher that talked about the pop culture myths and victimhood about it)
Civil War
World War One
Roaring 20's
Great Depression
World War Two
Cold War and Civil Rights

I had required history course in elementary (natives, New France, etc.), and from grades 7 through 10. I'm in Quebec btw, so no Grade 12.

>7th Grade
Prehistory (Homo Erectus, Neanderthal, that sorta shit)
Ancient civilizations to Middle Ages iirc

>8th Grade
Middle Ages to 20th century

>9th Grade
North American history, focused on New France and the natives

>10th Grade
Continued from above, but focused on Canadian confederation and the 20th century.

>11th Grade
No required history course, but I took 20th Century History as an elective, and it was pretty great as far as history courses go.

Things got a lot better once I got into college, though.

My teacher was a Mesopotamiaboo, so we barely finished Rome by the end of the first year.

In second year we rushed through middle ages, early modern and XIXth century, only discussing european colonization and French revolution in detail.

Third year was basically ww1- early cold war with a lot of government issued propaganda regarding 2nd Polish republic and how Poland was the most important part of ww2