Blankenship Index

	Welcome to Mr. Blankenship's Social Studies

Provides worksheets and activities for each of the 81 grade-level expectations (GLEs) for Louisiana Studies, the 8th grade social studies course for Louisiana.

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Click here for free worksheets and activities covering the 81 grade-level expectations of Louisiana Studies.

Click here to view an outline of all the middle school benchmarks and grade level expectations. The middle school grades are grades 5 through 8 in the state's curriculum.

Teachers: how to help support this site at no cost to you

I am glad to provide this site for fellow social studies teachers. I am spending my Summer expanding the site. I hope to eventually have a page for every social studies GLE in Louisiana's curriculum. Once I have created the pages I will add links and activities for each GLE. I pay for this site entirely out of my pocket. You can help support this site at no cost to you:

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Pardon the look of the site -- I just upgraded my html generator (Freeway Pro) and the styles changed. I'm fixing the pages but it will take some time. If you find a broken link send an email.

Bookmarks broken? Because of the expansion of the site I had to reorganize my pages into folders. Just follow the links on this page to the current location of the page you want and create a new bookmark. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The strands of Louisiana Studies:

Louisiana's Social Studies Curriculum

Social studies courses in Louisiana's curriculum

Pre-K through 4th Grade

Middle School

High School

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