Social Studies Curriculum
8th Grade
Course Purpose: |
Students will critique significant global historical events in United States history in order to develop claims on societal issues. |
Outcomes and Components:
SS.8.1 | Students will examine struggles of Americans during and after Reconstruction and through the 20th Century. | ||
Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
SS.8.1.1 | Analyze how perspectives multiple individuals and groups influence what information is available in the historical sources they created to include Amendments 13, 14, and 15 and opposition to them. | SS.6-8.H.2.MC | |
SS.8.1.2 | Determine sources representing multiple perspectives leading to the Civil Rights Movement that will assist in organizing a research plan. | SS.6-8.IS.3.LC | |
SS.8.1.3 | Present arguments and explanations against segregation that would appeal to audiences and venues outside the classroom using a variety of media. | SS.6-8.IS.6.MC | |
SS.8.1.4 | Analyze the connection between interests and perspectives, civic virtues, and democratic principles surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. | SS.6-8.CV.4.LC |
Academic Vocabulary: explain, analyze, present |
Content Vocabulary: discriminate, segregate, civil rights, integration, potest, boycott, abolitionist, disenfranchised |