Social Studies
Standard 1
History of the United States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points
in the history of the United States and New York.
*Students explore the meaning of American culture by identifying the key
ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behavior, and traditions that help define it
and unite all Americans.
*Students interpret the ideas, values, and beliefs contained in the
Declaration of Independence and the New York State Constitution and United
States Constitutions, Bill of Rights, and other important historical
documents.
*Students understand how different experiences, beliefs, values, traditions,
and motives cause individuals and groups to interpret historic events and
issues from different perspectives.
*Students compare and contrast different interpretations of key events and
issues in New York State and United States history and explain reasons for
these different accounts.
*Students describe historic events through the eyes and experiences of those
who were there.
Standard 5
Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental
system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic
values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and
responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
*Students analyze how the values of a nation affect the guarantee of human
rights and make provisions for human needs.
*Students value the principles, ideals, and core values of the American
democratic system based upon the premises of human dignity, liberty, justice,
and equality.
*Students understand that the American legal and political systems guarantee
and protect the rights of citizens and assume that citizens will hold and
exercise certain civic values and fulfill certain civic responsibilities
