American History: Middle School Social Studies Semester Class 1 Of 2

1.) Students will develop compelling questions related to the development of the United States between 1500 - 1832.
2.) Students will generate supporting questions, using the disciplines of social studies, to help answer compelling questions in U.S. history between 1500-1832.
3.) Students will evaluate the types of supporting questions each of the social studies disciplines uses to answer compelling and supporting questions.
4.) Students will analyze the origin and purposes of rule of law, popular sovereignty,
federalism, separation of powers and checks and balances.
5.) Students will explain the origins, functions and structure of government, with reference to the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other founding documents, and their impacts on citizens.
6.) Students will explain how a system of checks and balances is intended to prevent a concentration of power in one branch.
7.) Students will analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to the definition of who is a citizen, expansion of that definition over time and changes in participation over time.
8.) Students will analyze expansion of and restriction on citizenship and voting rights on diverse groups in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1500-1832.                                                                                                                                                                             9.) Students will analyze how groups in the United States have challenged Constitutional provisions, laws and court rulings denying them the rights of citizens.
10.) Students will describe the impact of supply and demand on equilibrium prices and quantities produced in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1500- 1832.
11.) Students will assess the ways factors of production are combined in innovative ways resulting in economic growth and increased standards of living.
12.) Students will analyze how cultural and technological changes influenced how people interacted with their environments in the United States from Colonization through the Colonial Era from 1500-1832.
13.) Students will construct arguments by drawing on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how multiple perspectives, diversity and conflict and compromise impacted the development of the United States.