History
• Understand and show the relationship between cause and effect. (A4, A7)
• * Understand and show the impact of war and conquest on geography, culture, and political and economic structures. (B1 d)
• * Analyze events, issues, or problems with attention to social, political, economic, scientific/technological, and cultural positions. (C3)
• Explore corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels, and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders. (B2, B5)
• Know that literature can reflect the culture of a civilization at various points in time (e.g., The Jungle, The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau, Walden). (A6, B4, C2)
• Know, identify, and evaluate theories and ideas of important thinkers in U.S. history, and identify and understand the impact various figures had in U.S. history (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton). (B2)
• * Demonstrate an understanding of the role of multiculturalism. (B1 e)
• Understand the impact religion has had in the United States. (B1 c)
• Understand the Missouri Compromise, Kansas/Nebraska Acts, Lincoln/Douglas Debates, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Abolitionist Movement, and underground railroad as precursors to the Civil War. (B1 e, B2, B4)
• Analyze the effects of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers. (B1 e, B4)
• Analyze the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that have prompted discussion/repression of civil liberties (e.g., Pottsdam Treaty, Yalta Treaty, Civil Liberties Act, Great Society, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, development of the NAACP). (B4, C3)
• Examine the passage of various amendments and their effects on the country (e.g., Bill of Rights, 18th, 19th, Civil War Amendments, 21st). (A1, B2)
• Understand the impact various presidents had during their terms of office and major eras in American politics, (e.g., the Open Door Policy, the Big Stick diplomacy, Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Marshall Plan, the Cold War, and the World Wars). (B1 d, B2)
• Understand the impact of war, major battles of major wars, and how different leaders approached war and peace (e.g., Civil War, World Wars, internment camps, Supreme Court cases, World Court cases and Nurembourg Trials, Vietnam War, Korean War, Cold War, Persian Gulf War, nuclear testing, disarmament policies, and treaties). (B1 d, B2)
• Understand the impact of the Cold War in the United States (e.g., McCarthyism, Truman Doctrine, Berlin Blockade, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb testing). (B2)
• Discuss the impact of new technology in the world (e.g., automobiles, radios, television, movies, electricity, refrigeration). (B1 b)
• Understand reasons for American imperialism: Spanish/American War, acquisition of Philippines, Panama Canal. (B1 c, B2, B4)
• Understand and organize historical thought through a chronological framework; construct accurate timelines placing significant ideas, institutions, people, and events in appropriate time sequences. (A1)
• * Demonstrate that history relies on interpretation of evidence, which is subject to change, and recognize that human experience is recorded in different voices representing different perspectives. (A5)
• Demonstrate critical thinking: solve problems, make decisions, evaluate actions, and understand traditions; apply critical thinking to examine historical theory. (C3)
• Define personal positions on issues. (D1, D3)
• * Identify and analyze historical evidence and documents; utilize primary sources and writing to demonstrate an understanding of historical events. Accurately identify what information is known, unknown, and contradictory for given issues. (C2)
• Differentiate between historical interpretation and historical fiction (e.g., Pocohontas, Mulan, Hercules, The Mummy, Gladiator). (C3)
Geography
• Make and use maps, graphs, and globes to gather, analyze, and report spatial (geographic) information. (A1, A2)
• Develop and use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments. (A)
• Know that places have distinctive geographic characteristics. (B1)
• Understand that a region is a distinct area defined by one or more cultural and/or physical feature. (B1)
• * Identify cultural symbols.
• Know and understand geography and how it affects people and places by identifying factors affecting decisions to migrate; analyzing relationships between specific human activities and place; and understanding how extreme physical conditions such as floods or droughts affect human settlement. (E6)
• * Understand and explain various types of regions (physical, political, cultural), the factors that transform regions and change regional boundaries, and how people perceive regions and place.
• Create, name, identify, and characterize places. (A1)
• Identify major land and water forms and major political centers across the United States. (B1)
Government
• Examine the meaning of fundamental ideas such as equality, authority, power, freedom, justice, property, responsibility, and sovereignty. (A1)
• Analyze the role of the individual in active political and social participation, such as evaluating rules and laws, selecting political leaders, and resolving conflict. (E3)
• Understand that law codes reflect the values of civilizations (e.g., American Bill of Rights, Supreme Court rulings). (B8)
• Explore concepts such as republican form of government, capitalism, limited government, free-enterprise system, national identity, family units, and individualism. (B2)
• Understand the characteristics of different economic systems, institutions, and incentives (e.g., various forms of exchange, division of labor/specialization, and property rights). (F3)
• Understand the basic features of market structures and the interaction of supply and demand in a market economy (e.g., the relationship between prices and quantity of goods). (F5)
• Understand the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services; the impact of scarcity of resources; competition; and government control, including the impact of national or world events on the economy (e.g., Great Depression, World War I, World War II). (F2, F4)
• Explore indicators of economic performance, such as the stock market, employment rate, gross national product, and trade balance. (F8) |