ABSTRACT
In 1991, school officials in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, made the decision to experiment with block scheduling and curriculum integration in the humanities. Administrators recruited volunteer teams, each consisting of one teacher of English and one of social studies. (I was one of the English teachers.) These teams designed pilot courses at three high schools, integrating English and social studies in the tenth and eleventh grades. The courses designed were of two basic types:
World Studies (combining tenth-grade English and world history)
American Studies (combining eleventh-grade English and US history)
