Essential Questions基本问题

Enduring understandings持久的理解

We know what we know about history because of documents from the past.
We can use documents from the past to prove something in the present.

How do documents show us what happened in the past?
How can we think about our present and the past?

Introduction: Thinking Systems and Cycles of History

What are the reasons history continually repeats itself?
What fuels the basic needs of humanity?
How do we know what has happened historically is accurate? Who tells our history?

Humans have basic needs that fuel their desires for change.
There is a larger cycle of consequences for every action.
Every action has an equal reaction that must be balanced.

Evidence, Source, Primary, Secondary,

Essential Concepts基本概念

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Maslow's Hierarchy, The difference between fact and opinion, The difference and usage of primary and secondary sources, DBQs and analyzing DBQs, systems based thinking,

Vocabulary词汇

Assessments评估

Standards标准

AERO and CCSS

Time, Continuity, and Change
Standard 1: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships.
1.8.b Apply knowledge of the past to explain current events.

1.8.c Explain the causes of significant historical and current political events and issues

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.