\ United States .History 

Course Description:

Students will employ the standards-based historical thinking skills to explore the foundation of the American Republic and the expansion and disunion of the United States. They will investigate the impact of American industrialism and capitalism, including being drawn into world wars, on American politics and geopolitics. Instruction will utilize the historical thinking skills identified and explained in the 2020 South Carolina Social Studies College and Career Ready Standards. These standards are aligned with the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate that focuses on world-class knowledge, world-class skills, and life and career characteristics. Students will acquire content knowledge through reading and analyzing primary and secondary sources, group discussions, and whole class instruction. They will apply historical thinking skills to the acquired knowledge, and then design and communicate their interpretation of the past. This process as a whole is known as inquiry. Rather than focusing on the memorization of facts with one correct answer, inquiry differs because students are evaluated on their ability to make a claim and support it with reliable evidence from research. This course concludes with an end-of-course exam, in which students will apply their understanding of the historical thinking skills to answer multiple choice test items.