California Social Science Curriculum
Democratic Understanding and Civic Values
Civic Values, Rights, and Responsibilities
10.5.4 - Understand the nature of the war and its human costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the conflict, including how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort.
10.4.1 - Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).
10.3.2 - Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison).
Constitutional Heritage
10.1.3 - Consider the influxes of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world.
10.2.2 - List the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the American Declaration of Independence, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the U.S. Bill of Rights.
National Identity
10.9.5 - Describe the uprisings in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control.
10.7.1 - Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control.
Knowledge and Cultural Understanding
Sociopolitical Literacy
10.2.4 - Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
10.5.1 - Analyze the arguments 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, and propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian population in support of "total war."
10.8.6 - Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
Economic Literacy
10.3.6 - Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
10.6.2 - Describe the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and shifts in the geographic and political borders of Europe and the Middle East.
10.7.2 - Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights.
Geographic Literacy
10.4.2 - Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.
10.8.3 - Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis not he importance of geographic factors.
10.10.2 - Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.
Cultural Literacy
10.6.4 - Discuss the influence of World War I on literature, art, and intellectual life int he West.
10.2.1 - Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America.
10.3.7 - Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature, social criticism, and the move away from Classicism in Europe.
Ethical Literacy
10.5.5 - Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government's actions against Armenian citizens.
10.1.1 - Analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Romann views of law, reason and faith, and duties of the individual.
10.8.5 - Analyze the Nazy policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
Historical Literacy
10.3.1 - Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.
10.4.3 - Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.
10.9.3 - Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia, Cuba, and Africa.
Marc Donez - EDSC 442
World History, Culture, and Geophraphy: The Modern World
Skills Attainment and Social Participation
Basic Study Skills
CCSS ELA Literacy WHST 9.10.5 - Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
CCSS ELA Literacy WHST 9.10.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS ELA Literacy RH 9.10.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
H&SS Analysis Skills - Students interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event unfolded rather than solely in terms of present-day norms and values.
Critical Thinking Skills
CCSS ELA Literacy RH 9.10.6 - Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
CCSS ELA Literacy WHST 9.10.9 - Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS ELA Literacy RH 9.10.5 - Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
H&SS Analysis Skills - Students evaluate major debates among historians concerning alternative interpretations of the past, including an analysis of authors' use of evidence and the distinctions between sound generalizations and misleading oversimplifications.
Participation Skills
CCSS ELA Literacy WHST 9.10.1 - Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS ELA Literacy WHST 9.10.3 - Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
H&SS Analysis Skills - Students analyze how change happens at different rates at different times; understand that some aspects can change while others remain the same; and understand that change is complicated and affects not only technology and politics but also values and beliefs.
CCSS ELA Literacy WHST 9.10.7 - Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self- generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
