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?
