DRAFT CURRICULUM
Compare: Compare the cultural and economic impacts of the 1929 Stock Market Crash on the United States and South Carolina.
Cause and Effect: Examine the primary causes of World War I and the events that led to the United States’ involvement.
Context: Contextualize the post-war economic climate on the cultural landscape throughout the United States and South Carolina.
Continuity and Change: Examine the continuities and changes that resulted from New Deal programs and the impact these programs had on various groups throughout the United States and South Carolina.
Periodization: Summarize how the role of the federal government expanded during this period
Evidence: Evaluate multiple perspectives from the period, including the economic, political, and social impacts of World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal using primary and secondary sources.
It is important that the teacher incorporate the historical thinking skill vocabulary in their classroom on a daily basis. Modeling is essential for student understanding of these skills.
Standard 2: Demonstrate an understanding of how international events and conditions during the early 20th century (i.e., 1910–1940) affected the United States and South Carolina.
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Instructional Guidance:
Comparison: Generate comparisons based on common or differing characteristics or contexts.
Causation: Analyze multiple causes and effects, to include distinguishing long-term and short-term examples.
Contextualize: Place events in the proper context, allowing students to understand the historical period.
Summarize: Structuring historical periods to group information and to establish key events as turning points and beginning/ending points.
Evidence- Identify, source, and utilize different forms of evidence, including primary and secondary sources, used in an inquiry-based study of history.
Periodization: create a historical narrative to summarize major developments within a given time line.
Skills:
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