VA.SS.USII.6.b
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will describe the social and economic changes that took place, including prohibition and the Great Migration north and west.
Essential Understandings:
Reforms in the early twentieth century could not legislate how all people behaved.
Economic conditions and violence led to the migration of people.
Degree of Alignment:
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VA.SS.USII.5
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will apply social science skills to understand the changing role of the United States from the late nineteenth century through World War I.
Degree of Alignment:
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VA.SS.USII.7
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will apply social science skills to understand the major causes and effects of American involvement in World War II.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USII.6.d
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will analyze the causes of the Great Depression, its impact on Americans, and the major features of Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal.
Essential Understandings:
The optimism of the 1920s concealed problems in the American economic system and attitudes about the role of government in controlling the economy.
The Great Depression and the New Deal dramatically changed the lives of most Americans and began to change both their understanding of the economic system and the role of government in American life.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USII.8
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will apply social studies skills to understand the economic, social, and political transformation of the United States and the world between the end of World War II and the present.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USII.1.c
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will interpret charts, graphs, and pictures to determine characteristics of people, places, or events in United States History.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
Use historical maps to analyzes changes in population over time
Gather information to explain the resettlement of the American Indian population
Use primary source images to show how new inventions changed life in America
Interpret photographs of the Civil Rights Movement. Discuss the photographer potential bias. Discuss the potential bias of the audience. Discuss the potential bias the photographs might cause.
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USII.1.d
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will use evidence to draw conclusions and make generalizations.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
After reading about an historical event, use a Somebody Wanted But So What? chart or a similar graphic organizer to draw conclusions and make generalizations about a point of view.
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.
Documents Based Questions (DBQs)
History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)
Degree of Alignment:
Not Rated
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VA.SS.USII.1.h
Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning
Grades 5-8
Learning Domain: US History II
Standard:
Indicator: The student will use a decision-making model to analyze, and explain the costs and benefits of a specific choice.
Experiences may include but are not limited to:
Using a PACED Decision Making Model
Define the Problem
List Alternatives
Select Criteria
Evaluate the alternatives
Decision
Analyze the costs and benefits of decisions made in United States history. Determine the level of importance of each cost and benefit. Discuss whether the costs or the benefits have the greater impact on the final decision.
Degree of Alignment:
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