| MI: Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects 6-12 Reading: History/Social Studies Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. RH.6-8.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. RH.6-8.2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. 3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. RH.6-8.3. Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered). Craft and Structure
4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. RH.6-8.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. RH.6-8.7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. RH.6-8.10. By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. WHST.6-8.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. WHST.6-8.9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research. Range of Writing
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. WHST.6-8.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. MI: Social Studies (2007) 6 – H1.1.1 Explain why and how historians use eras and periods as constructs to organize and explain human activities over time. H1.2 Historical Inquiry and Analysis
Use historical inquiry and analysis to study the past. 6 – H1.2.1 Explain how historians use a variety of sources to explore the past (e.g., artifacts, primary and secondary sources including narratives, technology, historical maps, visual/mathematical quantitative data, radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis). 6 – H1.2.2 Read and comprehend a historical passage to identify basic factual knowledge and the literal meaning by indicating who was involved, what happened, where it happened, what events led to the development, and what consequences or outcomes followed. H1.4 Historical Understanding
Use historical concepts, patterns, and themes to study the past. 6 – H1.4.2 Describe and use themes of history to study patterns of change and continuity. 6 – H1.4.3 Use historical perspective to analyze global issues faced by humans long ago and today. W1 WHG Era 1 – The Beginings of Human Society: Beginings to 4000 B.C.E./B.C.
Explain the basic features and differences between hunter-gatherer societies and pastoral nomads. Analyze and explain the geographic, environmental, biological, and cultural processes that influenced the rise of the earliest human communities, the migration and spread of people throughout the world, and the causes and consequences of the growth of agriculture.
W1.1 Peopling of the Earth
Describe the spread of people in the Western Hemisphere in Era 1. 6 – W1.1.1 Describe the early migrations of people among Earth’s continents (including the Berringa Land Bridge). 6 – W1.1.2 Examine the lives of hunting and gathering people during the earliest eras of human society (tools and weapons, language, fire). W1.2 Agricultural Revolution
Describe the Agricultural Revolution and explain why it is a turning point in history. 6 – W1.2.1 Describe the transition from hunter gatherers to sedentary agriculture (domestication of plants and animals). G2 Places and Regions
Describe the cultural groups and diversities among people that are rooted in particular places and in human constructs called regions. Analyze the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
G2.1 Physical Characteristics of Place Describe the physical characteristics of places. 6 – G2.1.1 Describe the landform features and the climate of the region (within the Western or Eastern Hemispheres) under study. G2.2 Human Characteristics of Place
Describe the human characteristics of places. 6 – G2.2.3 Analyze how culture and experience influence people’s perception of places and regions (e.g., the Caribbean Region that presently displays enduring impacts of different immigrant groups – Africans, South Asians, Europeans – and the differing contemporary points of view about the region displayed by islanders and tourists). G3.2 Ecosystems
Describe the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on the Earth’s surface. 6 – G3.2.2 Identify ecosystems and explain why some are more attractive for humans to use than are others (e.g., mid-latitude forest in North America, high latitude of Peru, tropical forests in Honduras, fish or marine vegetation in coastal zones). 7 – H1.1.1 Explain why and how historians use eras and periods as constructs to organize and explain human activities over time. H1.2 Historical Inquiry and Analysis
Use historical inquiry and analysis to study the past. 7 – H1.2.1 Explain how historians use a variety of sources to explore the past (e.g., artifacts, primary and secondary sources including narratives, technology, historical maps, visual/mathematical quantitative data, radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis). 7 – H1.2.2 Read and comprehend a historical passage to identify basic factual knowledge and the literal meaning by indicating who was involved, what happened, where it happened, what events led to the development, and what consequences or outcomes followed. H1.4 Historical Understanding
Use historical concepts, patterns, and themes to study the past. 7 – H1.4.2 Describe and use themes of history to study patterns of change and continuity. 7 – H1.4.3 Use historical perspectives to analyze global issues faced by humans long ago and today. W1 WHG Era 1 – The Beginings of Human Society: Beginings to 4000 B.C.E./B.C.
Explain the basic features and differences between hunter-gatherer societies and pastoral nomads. Analyze and explain the geographic, environmental, biological, and cultural processes that influenced the rise of the earliest human communities, the migration and spread of people throughout the world, and the causes and consequences of the growth of agriculture.
W1.1 Peopling of the Earth
Describe the spread of people in the Western Hemisphere in Era 1. 7 – W1.1.1 Explain how and when human communities populated major regions of the Eastern Hemisphere (Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia) and adapted to a variety of environments. 7 – W1.1.2 Explain what archaeologists have learned about Paleolithic and Neolithic patterns of living in Africa, Western Europe, and Asia. W1.2 Agricultural Revolution
Describe the Agricultural Revolution and explain why it is a turning point in history. 7 – W1.2.1 Explain the importance of the natural environment in the development of agricultural settlements in different locations (e.g., available water for irrigation, adequate precipitation, and suitable growth season). 7 – W1.2.2 Explain the impact of the Agricultural Revolution (stable food supply, surplus, population growth, trade, division of labor, development of settlements). W2 WHG Era 2 – Early Civilizations and Cultures and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples, 4000 to 1000 B.C.E./B.C.
Describe and differentiate defining characteristics of early civilization and pastoral societies, where they emerged, and how they spread.
W2.1 Early Civilizations and Early Pastoral Societies
Describe the characteristics of early Western Hemisphere civilizations and pastoral societies. 7 – W2.1.1 Describe the importance of the development of human language, oral and written, and its relationship to the development of culture
• verbal vocalizations
• standardization of physical (rock, bird) and abstract (love, fear) words
• pictographs to abstract writing (governmental administration, laws, codes, history and artistic expressions) 7 – G1.1.1 Explain and use a variety of maps, globes, and web based geography technology to study the world, including global, interregional, regional, and local scales. G1.2 Geographical Inquiry and Analysis
Use geographic inquiry and analysis to answer important questions about relationships between people, cultures, their environment, and relations within the larger world context. 7 – G1.2.1 Locate the major landforms, rivers and climate regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. 7 – G1.2.5 Use information from modern technology such as Geographic Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS), and satellite remote sensing to locate information and process maps and data to analyze spatial patterns of the Eastern Hemisphere to answer geographic questions. G2 Places and Regions Describe the cultural groups and diversities among people that are rooted in particular places and in human constructs called regions. Analyze the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
G2.1 Physical Characteristics of Place
Describe the physical characteristics of places. 7 – G2.1.1 Describe the landform features and the climate of the region (within the Western or Eastern Hemispheres) under study. G2.2 Human Characteristics of Place
Describe the human characteristics of places. 7 – G2.2.3 Analyze how culture and experience influence people’s perception of places and regions (e.g., that beaches are places where tourists travel, cities have historic buildings, northern places are cold, equatorial places are very warm). G3.2 Ecosystems
Describe the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on the Earth’s surface. 7 – G3.2.2 Identify ecosystems of a continent and explain why some provide greater opportunities (fertile soil, precipitation) for humans to use than do other ecosystems and how that changes with technology (e.g., China’s humid east and arid west and the effects of irrigation technology). G4.3 Patterns of Human Settlement
Describe patterns, processes, and functions of human settlement. 7 – G4.3.2 Describe patterns of settlement by using historical and modern maps (e.g., the location of the world’s mega cities, other cities located near coasts and navigable rivers, regions under environmental stress such as the Sahel). © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved. |
