The four major curriculum goals of the framework

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The four major curriculum goals of the framework

Literacy

Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.

Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims

Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.

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.

Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.

Citizenship

• What problems are posed by representative government and how can they be addressed?

• What rights and responsibilities does a citizen have in a democracy?

• Why did women want the right to vote and how did they convince men to grant it to them????

• What are key tenets of American democracy?

• How did the federal government grow between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries?

Inquiry

• How was imperialism similar and different between colonies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America?

• How did industrial revolutions affect governments, countries, and national identity in similar and different ways?

• What were the consequences of trying to implement political revolutionary ideas in Europe, Latin America, and North America?

• How do the French, American, and Haitian Revolutions compare to one another?

• What were the results of the Industrial Revolutions? How was technology, and the environment transformed by industrialization?

Content

History

• What were the effects of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution?

• How did the Reformation divide the Christian Church, millions of people, and European states?

• How did the Mongol Empire destroy states and increase the interconnection of Afroeurasia?

Economics

• What is capitalism? What are its benefits and problems?

• How did increasing interconnection and trade, competition between states (and their people), and technological innovations lead to voyages of exploration?

• How did the environmental conditions and technological innovations cause the medieval economic revolution? What were the effects of this revolution?

Geography

• How did the environment affect the expansion of agriculture, population, cities, and empires in Mesoamerica and the Andean region?

• Increasing human impact on the natural and physical environment, including the diffusion of plants, animals, and microorganisms to parts of the world where they had previously been unknown.

• How did the distant regions of the world become more interconnected through medieval and early modern times?