Identify the influence of culturally-based practices, values, and beliefs in order to analyze how historically-defined meanings of what makes us different affects human behavior.
Evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
Construct a well-organized historical argument using effective, appropriate, and accurate language.
Make an argument using the historical thinking skills of cause and effect and compare and contrast.
Analyze how inequality shapes identities, perspectives, and acts of resistance within historical and current contexts.
Political Institutions: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate the role that political institutions play in the functioning of American government.
Identity, Roles, Responsibility: Students will assess and analyze the ways in which identity, roles, and responsibilities shape the dynamics and effectiveness of American government and democratic processes.
Democratic Principles: Students will demonstrate understanding of the role that democratic principles play in the functioning of American government.
Civic Engagement: Students will evaluate and analyze how the different forms of civic engagement affect American government.
Argument: Students will be able to construct well-reasoned and logically coherent explanations and arguments.
Perspectives: Students will be able to demonstrate diverse perspectives through primary or secondary sources to develop a more complete understanding of past or current events.
Financial Institutions and Government: Students will be able to evaluate various financial institutions, processes and services tied to banking, credit, investing, and taxes.
Money Management and Financial Well-being: Students will be able to apply financial mindset strategies to make consumer/personal finance decisions.
Microeconomics: Students will be able to effectively analyze supply and demand dynamics and interpret microeconomic scenarios in order to make informed decisions.
Macroeconomics: Students will be able to analyze key macroeconomic concepts, enabling them to apply their knowledge to real-world economic situations.
Students will analyze the sociological structure of different social groups and the differences between cults and subcultures.
Students will explore causes, consequences, and solutions related to social problems using the lens of the sociological perspective.
Students will analyze historic structures of race, class, and gender.
Students will analyze how social norms shape individual behavior and group interactions and evaluate the key components of society and culture—including values, beliefs, institutions, and social structures.
Continuity and Change: Students will be able to analyze continuity and change over U.S. history.
Conflict and Cooperation: Students will be able to analyze how conflict and cooperation influence the U.S. and global community.
Cause and Effects: Students will be able to analyze the causes and effects of different movements and events throughout U.S. history.
Communities and Pluralism: Students will be able to recognize and evaluate the histories and contributions of communities to pluralistic societies.
Argument: Students will be able to construct well-reasoned and logically coherent explanations and arguments.
Perspectives: Students will be able to demonstrate diverse perspectives through primary or secondary sources to develop a more complete understanding of past or current events.
Cause and Effects: Students will be able to analyze the causes and effects of different movements and events throughout world history.
Communities and Pluralism: Students will be able to analyze the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of communities and pluralistic societies.
Geographic Interaction: Students will be able to evaluate how society interacts and interconnects with human or geographical factors utilizing maps, geographic tools, or other sources.
Historical Thinking: Students will be able to construct well-reasoned and logically coherent explanations or arguments using reasoning, logical sequencing, examples, and details with relevant information and data.
Media Literacy and Historical Analysis: Students will critically analyze and engage with media, interpreting primary and secondary sources to develop informed historical narratives that distinguish fact from opinion.
