Current Unit: Foundational Skills

Unit Info:

• This unit will introduce students to foundational skills that they will use during this course: including analyzing primary and secondary sources, timelines and maps; evaluating sources for bias; and understanding the regional characteristics of North Carolina and the United States.

Standards:

The student will:

• Summarize human and physical characteristics of North Carolina and the United States (G.1.1)

• Analyze details, central ideas, and inferences from sources using discipline-specific strategies. (I.1.3)

• Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources using the origin, authority, structure, credibility, reliability, and context of the sources to guide the selection. (I.1..4)

Learning Targets:

• Describe the regions of North Carolina (G.1.1)

  • Tidewater, Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Mountains

• Describe the characteristics that define a particular region in North Carolina

• Describe the regions of the United States (G.1.1)

  • Northeast, Southeast, Mid-west, Southwest, West

• Describe the characteristics that define a particular region in the United States (G.1.1)

• Describe North Carolina’s location in relation to other states (G.1.1)

• Describe the United States’s location in relation to other nations (G.1.1)

• Summarize the central idea of a primary source. (I.3)

• Summarize the central idea of a secondary source. (I.3)

• Evaluate a primary source for its credibility. (I.4)

• Evaluate a secondary source for its credibility. (I.4)

Vocabulary:

Essential -

Primary Source, Secondary Source, Bias, Persuasion, Analysis, compelling questions, supporting questions, region, Human Geography, Physical Geography, sectionalism

Supporting -

Timeline, Map, Geography, nation, border, demographics, Regions of NC (Tidewater, Coastal Plains, Piedmont, Mountains),fall line, Regions of the United States (Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, Northwest)