Social Studies Curriculum
8th Grade
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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.8.4 | Students will examine struggles of Americans during and after Reconstruction and through the 20th Century. | ||
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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Standard(s) |
| SS.8.4.1 | Analyze and examine how external benefits and costs influence the relationship between taking financial risks and protection, insurance, and costs during the Great Depression. |
SS.6-8.EC.FL.1.MC SS.6-8.EC.1.MdC |
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| SS.8.4.2 | Analyze how the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influenced patterns of world trade during the Great Depression. | SS.6-8.G.4.MC | |
| SS.8.4.3 | Evaluate how cultural and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places. | SS.6-8.G.2.MC | |
| SS.8.4.4 | Evaluate the influences of long-term human induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation (eg. Dust Bowl). | SS.6-8.G.3.MC | |
| SS.8.4.5 | Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society. | SS.6-8.EC.1.LC | |
| SS.8.4.6 | Explain the correlation between investors, investment options (and associated risks), and income/wealth. | SS.6-8.EC.FL.2.MdC | |
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Academic Vocabulary: explain, examine, analyze, evaluate |
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Content Vocabulary: financial risk, protections, insurance, Great Depression, recession, depression, inflation, bear market, bull market, Dust Bowl |