VA.SS.USI.1.j
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will investigate and research to develop products orally and in writing.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
Investigate people, places, and events in United States history to develop an understanding of historical, cultural, economic, political and geographical relationships by:
exploring religious and economic decisions that led to the colonization of America;
outlining and describing geographic factors that impacted battles during the American Revolution or the Civil War;
describing and providing evidence to support sources of colonial dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution;
creating a digital map outlining the geographic and economic factors that influenced westward movement.
Create a chart outlining the costs and benefits of visiting different regions of the United States.
Investigate an important event. Create the front page of a newspaper with headlines and articles detailing the event. The newspaper may include the following features:
Articles summarizing the event
Timeline detailing actions leading up to the event
Quotes from participants
Images of the event
Create a mock social media page or blog about an event from United States history. Take a position on the topic, and use a variety of sources as evidence to support the stance.
French Explorer: Exploration of North America
Member of British Parliament: Declaration of Independence
American Indian: Manifest Destiny
Resident of the Kansas territory: Kansas Nebraska Act
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.1.d
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will use evidence to draw conclusions and make generalizations.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
Use media and images to evaluate sources for drawing conclusions and making generalizations.
Draw conclusions about propaganda used during a time period.
Make generalizations using political cartoons to explain historical events.
Use a chart to draw conclusions or make generalizations about a point of view.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.1.c
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will interpret charts, graphs, and pictures to determine an understanding of people, places, or events in United States history and draw conclusions.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
Use historical maps to analyze changes in population over time.
Identify and sequence events that shaped colonial America.
Interpret and draw conclusions from political cartoons about westward expansion.
Compare an illustration of a historical event to a written account of the event.
Gather information from a variety of sources to show the impact of colonial settlement on American Indian homelands.
Interpret photographs of the Civil War. Discuss potential bias and the impact these pictures had on the public.
Use primary sources to interpret how inventions changed life in America.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.1.a
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will analyze and interpret artifacts and primary and secondary sources to understand events in United States history.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
Using analysis tools to analyze and interpret artifacts and primary and secondary sources.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.9.f
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will describe the effects of war from the perspectives of Union and Confederate soldiers (including African American soldiers), women and enslaved African Americans.
Essential Understanding:
Life on the battlefield and on the home front was extremely harsh. Many soldiers died from disease and exposure.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.9.d
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass in events leading to and during the war.
Essential Understanding:
Lincoln and Lee were men who represented views of the nature of the United States that were very different; such views led to an unavoidable conflict.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.9.e
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will describe critical developments in the war, including the location of major battles.
Essential Understanding:
Location and topography were critical elements influencing important developments in the Civil War, including major battles.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.9.b
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will explain how the issues of states rights and slavery increased sectional tensions.
Essential Understandings:
The South feared that the North would take control of Congress, and Southerners began to proclaim states rights as a means of self-protection.
The North believed that the nation was a union that could not be divided.
While the Civil War did not begin as a war to abolish slavery, issues surrounding slavery deeply divided the nation.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USI.8.e
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History I
Standard:
Indicator: The student will explain the main ideas of the abolitionist and women suffrage movements.
Essential Understandings:
The abolitionists worked to end slavery.
The women suffrage movement helped women gain equal rights.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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