var sub3gr0="<h2>Kindergarten Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Me and Others in the World Around Me, Breads of the World, How is my world effected by the Past. <strong>Concepts + Skills:</strong> Diversity in the classroom and world; Change occurs as time passes; Finding similarities and differences in people's characteristics, habits and living patterns; Identify differences between past and present; Describing jobs people do; Represent relative locations on a map. <strong>Highlights:</strong> Weekly field trips that explore San Francisco and the Bay Area.</p>"; 
var sub3gr1="<h2>1st Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Communities and Interdependence. <strong>Concepts + Skills</strong>: Understanding roles, routines and communication within a community; how we rely on others; exploring cultural customs and traditions; recognizing ways in which culture influences people’s habits and living patterns; identifying symbols, events and customs of various cultures. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Running a school Post Office.</p>"; 
var sub3gr2="<h2>2nd Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Classroom and School Community; Family and Community; Understanding our Neighbors: Mexico. <strong>Concepts + Skills</strong>: Wherever you go, there you are; Conducting interviews and documenting oral history; Investigating change over time; Examining and learning from multiple perspectives in both past and present; Analyzing the interdependence of natural resources, communities, and culture; Using and making maps; Understanding the role of responsibility in interdependence; Celebrating heritage and diversity. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Oral History Books, Classroom Maps, Pen Pals, Mexican Fiesta.</p>"; 
var sub3gr3="<h2>3rd Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: San Francisco, Communities, Culture, Geography, Diversity, Activism. <strong>Concepts + Skills</strong>: People and their community; why people move from one place to another; People help change their communities; geographic features of the globe affect communities; Local economy and government impacts local community. Identify the similarities and differences in communities around the world; Locate and map local community in relation to the world; Understand the historical significance of individuals who have helped make a difference in their community; Identify structure and function of the local government. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Experiential field trips around San Francisco</p>"; 
var sub3gr4="<h2>4th Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: How did California become what it is today? Important events and peoples of California, Native Americans in California, Fort Ross, the Gold Rush, Explorers, Missions, Immigration, and geography. <strong>Concepts + Skills</strong>: Compare how people conduct themselves now and in the past; the environmental impacts human life while humans have an impact on the environment; diverse peoples are motivated to immigrate to California; cultures have similarities and differences; people rely on each other economically; technology has an influence on society; the structure of California government; the spread of religion and its impact. Time-lining; mapping; researching and reading non-fiction, representing past through oral presentations, writing, role-playing, debating and creating models. <strong>Highlights</strong>: A living history overnight trip to Fort Ross during which every student takes on the role of a person who lived in Fort Ross in the year 1812.</p>"; 
var sub3gr5="<h2>5th Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Native American cultures; exploring and settling the New World; modern America and contemporary issues. Concepts: cultural survival; changes in living habits past to present; challenges of migration; cultural influences on living habits; historical factors shape state, nation and world; purposes and structure of governments; social justice. <strong>Skills</strong>: using various resources in research; analyzing primary and secondary sources, questioning and critical thinking; using strategies to select topic, plan approach, locate information, organize and prepare a research project. <strong>Highlight</strong>: Explorer's Project, Class Presidential Elections</p>"; 
var sub3gr6="<h2>6th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p>Integrated with Social Studies in Middle School Humanities program. <strong>Focus</strong>: Ancient Civilizations; Geography: globes, maps; strategies for studying history and the past; Archeology; Early Humans;  Mesopotamia; Egypt; Ancient China ; Modern China: The Cultural Revolution; World Religions: Judaism and Buddhism. <strong>Routines</strong>: Read Aloud, Literature Circles, Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop, Weekly Spelling, Current Events. <strong>Literature</strong>: The Misfits by James Howe, The Outsiders, Red Scarf Girl, assorted young adult fiction for book clubs. <strong>Projects</strong>: Mesopotamian City-state diagrams, Ancient Mysteries Projects, Great Wall Chinese Dynasty projects, Myth Writing, Memoir Writing</p>"; 
var sub3gr7="<h2>7th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p>Integrated with Social Studies in Middle School Humanities program. <strong>Focus</strong>: Ancient Greece and Rome; The Middle Ages and Renaissance; The Middle East and Birth of Islam; Ancient Africa, Holocaust, Japanese-American Internment, 9/11, Harlem Renaissance, Poetry. <strong>Routines</strong>: Interactive Notebook, Journaling, Independent Reading, Read Aloud, Grammar Workshop, Writer\'s Workshop. <strong>Literature</strong>: Romeo + Juliet, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Greek Myths, Fahrenheit 451, Farewell to Manzanar, Night. <strong>Projects</strong>: Greek Festival, Social Responsibility Research Project, Harlem Renaissance Wiki.</p>"; 
var sub3gr8="<h2>8th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p>Integrated with Social Studies in Middle School Humanities program. <strong>Focus</strong>: American Revolution, Constitution, Westward Expansion Civil War, Civil Rights Movement. <strong>Routines</strong>: Journal writing, Literature discussions, Independent reading, Read aloud, Weekly vocabulary, Post-its for literature notes, History notes. <strong>Literature</strong>: Things Fall Apart, Animal Farm, Catcher in the Rye, The Pearl, A House on Mango Street, Warriors Don\'t Cry. <strong>Projects</strong>: Persuasive letters, propaganda posters, political party, original constitutions, Monument proposals for unsung activists, Literature essays, fables.</p>";