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100 In Grade 2, the main topic is: Living Together in the Community, with emphasis on the workers who protect us (policeman, fireman, etc.), the workers who help provide our food, and helping to make things bright and clean. Grade 3 continues with the main idea of living together in the community, with stress placed on: Our Local Community and its History. Other topics studied are: how we secure our food, how we get our clothing, how we obtain a variety of goods, and how people provide homes for themselves. Grade 4 works on the study of Cape Cod and its history„ and continues into a larger unit of study on New England, with Massachusetts as the most important state in the unit. Grade 5 spends the year studying the United States and its possessions and Mexico, learning about the resources, products manufactured and their importance to our well being. Grade 6 studies the countries of South America and the Latin American countries. In Grade 7 we spend a year on the various countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the islands of the Arctic and Indian Oceans. We try to determine the relative import- ance of countries in world affairs. We try to understand the ways in which people of Europe,Asia and Africa have adjusted their ways of living and work to the lands in which they dwell. Today in this "fast moving age," the world is much closer together and what people do and think in one part of it affects often the life and activities and well-being of many others. Many statements of facts are qualified by such phrases as "during peace time" and "in normal times." Grade 8 studies "The United State in a Modern World." We learn that the United States because of its immense size, rich resources, development by inventors, and people of high intelligence living in a favorable climate, has reached a stage of great industrial development. This development has brought the United States into close touch with other nations of the world. We find that from a small nation, nearly self sufficient,we have become a great nation,and that the greater a nation is, the more dependent it becomes on other nations.