Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements:
Social Studies: History Essential Academic Learning Requirements
- Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping United States, world, and Washington State history
- Understand and analyze historical time and chronology
- Using evidence for support, identify, analyze, and explain possible causal factors contributing to given historical events
Social Studies Skills: Essential Academic Learning Requirements
Inquiry and Information Skills
- Create a product that uses social studies content to support findings; present the product in an appropriate manner to a meaningful audience
Critical Thinking Skills
- Analyze and evaluate the impact of ideas, events, and/or people on groups, environments, economic systems, and/or subsequent events
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Understand events within a historical context
- Become aware of the complexity of social problems in the United States
- Identify with individuals from a past era by writing and speaking from their points of view
- Understand the civil rights era of the 1960s by reading from a variety of historical fiction and expository texts
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