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.8.4 Students will examine struggles of Americans during and after Reconstruction and through the 20th Century.

Pacing  

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Component Code

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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
  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

Academic Vocabulary: explain, examine, analyze, evaluate

Content Vocabulary: financial risk, protections, insurance, Great Depression, recession, depression, inflation, bear market, bull market, Dust Bowl