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Goal of Knowledge and Cultural Understanding

Sociopolitcal Literacy

Which of the following was the primary cause of the Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR?

D.) the founding of the United Nations

C.) a deep reduction of military expeditures

B.) direct, armed conflict between the two nations

A.) a competion over political influence over countries

10.9.2 Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and the Soviet client nations on the other, indluding influence over such places as Egypt, Congo, Vietnam and Chile.

10.5.5 Discuss human rights violtations and genocide, inluding the Ottoman government's actions against the Armenian population.

Economic Literacy

Economically what enabled Japan to become a colonial power after 1894?

D.) Japanese were forced to acquire colonies after Asian trade was banned by Europeans.

C.) Industrialization expanded Japanese resources allowing for military and regional expansion

B.) Japanese trade wars against the U.S.removed regional competition

A.) Agribultural advances increase Japan's population which forced them to look for more land

10.3.5 Understand the connection among natural rescources, entrepurnerialship, labor and capital in an industrial economy.

10.3.4 Trace the evolution of work and labor including the demise of the slave trade, and the effect of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement.

Geographic Literacy

Which of these are is the main reason that Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, became satillites of the USSR?

D.) Hitler surrendered control of these areas at the end of WWII

C.) The Soviet Union army occupied these areas at the end of WWII

B.) The people in each country voted to be apart of the USSR

A.) These areas were given to the Soviet Union by a League of Nations mandate

10.6.2 Describe the effects of war and the resulting peace treaties on poluation movement, the international economy, and shifts in geographic and politcal borders of Europe and Middle East.

10.5.2 Examine the principle theatres of battles, major turning points, the importance places on georaphic facotrs in military deicsions and outcomes (e.g. topography, waterways, distance, climate, etc).

10.4.2 Discuss the locations of colonial rule of such nations as Englad, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Portugal and the United States.

Cultural Literacy

Which of the following is a political thought from Classical Athens that is central to Western political thought today?

D.) Individuals play an insignifcant role in shaping ideas

C.) Individual recgonition impedes societal progress

B.) Individual digitnity, acheivement and worth are of great importance

A.) Indiduals should fight against nature and society to acheive greatness

10.6.4 Discuss the influence of World War I on art and literature and intellectual life in the West (e.g. Pablo Picasso, the "lost generation of Gertrude Stein, Earnest Hemingway).

10.3.7 Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g. poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g. novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.

Ethical Literacy

The English Philosopher John Locke argues that life, libery and property were?

D.) political rights

C.) economic rights

B.) social rights

A.) natural rights

10.8.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of pursueing racial purity, especially against European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution and the Holocaust that consumed six million Jewish lives.

10.7.3 Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Facists and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their common and dissimilar traits.

10.7.1 Undertsand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revoultion, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to sieze and maintain control (e.g. the Gulag).

Historical Literacy

By 1914, Ethiopia and Liberia were the only two African countries to

D.) colonize other nations

C.) industrialize

B.) retain their independence

A.) establish democratic governments

10.9.6 Understand how the forces of nationalism spread to the Middle East, how the holocaust affect the world's opinion for the need of a Jewish state, and the significance of the location of Israel on world affairs.

10.5.1 Analyze the argument for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides of the Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian population in support of "total war".

10.5.3 Explain how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affect the course and outcome of the war.

World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

Goal of Democratic Understanding and Civic Values

Civic Values, Rights, and responsibilities

Both the United States Constituion and the French's Declartion of the Rights of Man emphasized the idea that governments must

D.) support establish religious systems

C.)operate a system of checks and balances

B.) equal rights for all citizens

A.) guarentee economic prosperity

10.1.2 Trace the development of Western political ideas of the rule of law and illiegtimacy of tyranny, using selectictions from Platio's Republic and Aristole's Politics.

Constitutional Heritage

When a country's constitution requires the branches of government to stay independent, it is adhering to the principles of?

D.) federalism

C.) direct democracy

B.) separation of powers

A.) popular sovernity

10.1.3 Consider the influence of the U.SW. Constituion on political systems in the contemporary world.

National Identity

The principles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are simmilar in many ways. Which answer best describes the similiarities? A. Both favored representative govt. B.) Both limited voting rights to economic elite C.) Both retained some hereidarty rights to elite D.) Both supported equal rights for women.

10.2.3 Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, and its spread to other parts of the world and its continung significance to other nations.

10.1.3 Consider the influence of the U.S. Consitituion on political systems in the contemporary world.

Goal of Skills Attainment and Social Participation

Basic Study Skills

CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL 9-10.5 Anaylze in detail an author's idea or claims are devloped and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of the text (e.g. a selection from text).

CCSS.ELA- Literacy RL 9-10.2 Determine a central theme of the text and analyze its development over the course of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.6 Adapt speech to a variety of context and tasks.

Crtical Thinking Skills

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.3 Evaulate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, use of evidence and rhetoric, identififying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated, distroted evidence.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.2 Integrate multiple sources of information on media or formats evaulating the credibility and accuracy of each source.

Participation Skills

CCSS.ELA-Literacy L 9-10.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar useage when writing or speaking

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under study.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.1 Initiatiate and pariticpate in a range of collaborative discussions, with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, with texts, and issues, building on other's ideas and expressing their own clearly.