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What is an Essential Standard?
We have identified the Essential Standards (ES) in our K12 curriculum. What this means is that in our curriculum there are some really important skills and concepts that all students need to learn. These skills provide students with a solid foundation to build upon. ES are the essential skills we want to make sure all students learn so that they have the knowledge they need to ensure they can build upon those important skills. There are specific assessments within our curriculum that measure our Essential Standards that act as checkpoints for teachers to monitor their student's work.
Why should it be important to you?
When your student participates in the lessons that measure the ES, it will help you to know if they are on track with these important skills that they need to learn.
Why is it important to us as teachers?
It helps us as teachers to make sure that our students are learning and mastering these essential skills. If they aren’t, then we can step in and provide tutoring/interventions to make sure these really important skills are mastered before they move on to other material.
ES #1-- U.S. II Standard 1.3:
Students will analyze the causal relationships between industrialization and the challenges faced by the growing working classes in urban settings.
ES #2--U.S. II Standard 3.1 and 3.3
Students will describe how the role of the U.S. in world affairs changed at the turn of the 20th century, and evaluate the arguments used to promote or discourage involvement in world affairs, such as those of the "big stick," Mahan, the Roosevelt Corollary, and the Antiimperialist League.
Students will evaluate the positive and negative impacts of imperialism on the U.S. and the U.S. territorial interests, such as the Philippines, Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Panama, and Puerto Rico.
ES #3-- U.S. II Standard 6.3:
Students will cite and compare historical arguments from multiple perspectives regarding the use of "total war" in World War II, focusing on the changing objectives, weapons, tactics, and rules of war, such as carpet bombing, civilian targets, the Holocaust, and the development and use of the atom bomb.
ES #4-- U.S. II Standard 4.2:
Students will use case studies involving African-American civil rights leaders and events to compare, contrast, and evaluate the effectiveness of various methods used to achieve reform, such as civil disobedience, legal strategies, and political organizing.
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