TENTH GRADE |
HISTORY-SOCIAL SCIENCE
THE MODERN WORLD:
Students in grade ten study
major turning points that shaped the modern world, from the late 18th century
through the present, including the cause and course of the two world wars.
They trace the rise of democratic ideas and develop an understanding of
the historical roots of current world issues, especially as they pertain
to international relations. They extrapolate from the American experience
that democratic ideals are often achieved at a high price, remain vulnerable
and are not practiced everywhere in the world. Students develop an understanding
of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographic,
political, economic, and cultural contexts. Students consider multiple
accounts of events in order to understand international relations from
a variety of perspectives.
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1.) The similarities and differences in Judeo
Christian and
Greco-Roman views of law; reason and faith;
duties of the
individual.
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2.) The development of the Western political
ideas of the rule of
law and illegitimacy of tyranny, drawing from
selections from Plato's
Republic and Aristotle's Politics.
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3.) The influence of the U.S. Constitution
on political systems in the
contemporary world.
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Compare the present with the past, evaluating the
consequences of past events and decisions and determining
the lessons learned.
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Construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate and
employ information from multiple primary and secondary
sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.
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Understand causes and effects, including the limitations
on determining cause and effect.
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Interpret past events and issues within the context in
which an event unfolded rather than solely in terms of
present day norms and values.
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Understand the meaning, implication, and impact
of
historical events while recognizing that events
could have
taken other directions.
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Standard
10.2
Students compare and
contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and
the French Revolution and their enduring effects on the worldwide political
expectations for self-government and individual liberty, in terms of:
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1.) The major ideas of philosophers and their
effect on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France,
and Latin America. (e.g., biographies of John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison)
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2.) The principles of the Magna Carta, the
English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence
(1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789),
and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791)
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3.) The unique character of the American Revolution,
its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance
to other nations.
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4.) How the ideology of the French Revolution
led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism
to the Napoleonic empire.
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5.) How nationalism spread across Europe with
Napoleon, was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and
Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
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Standard
10.3
Students analyze the
effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan
and the United States, in terms of:
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1.) Why England was the first country to industrialize.
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2.) How scientific and technological changes
and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural
change. (e.g., biographies of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer,
Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison,)
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3.) The growth of population, rural to urban
migration and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution.
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4.) The evolution of work and labor, including
the demise of the slave trade and effect of immigration, mining and manufacturing,
division of labor, and the union movement.
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5.) The connections among natural resources,
entrepreneurship, labor and capital in an industrial economy.
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6.) The emergence of capitalism as a dominant
economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social
Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
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7.) The emergence of the Romantic impulse
in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth),
social criticism (e.g., Charles Dickens' novels) and the move away from
Classicism in Europe.
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Standard
10.4
Students analyze patterns
of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following
regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America
and the Philippines, in terms of:
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1.) The rise of industrial economies and their
link to imperialism and colonialism (e.g., the role played by national
security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by search for national
hegemony, Social Darwinism and the missionary impulse; material issues
such as land, resources and technology.
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2.) The location of the colonial rule of such
nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia,
Spain, Portugal, and the United States.
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3.) Imperialism from the perspective of the
colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses
by the people under colonial rule.
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4.) The independence struggles of the colonized
regions of the world, including the role of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen
in China, and the role of ideology and religion.
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1.) The arguments for entering into war presented
by leaders from
all sides of the Great War and the role of
political and economic
rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts,
domestic discontent and
disorder, and propaganda and nationalism.
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2.) The principal theaters of battle, major
turning points and the
importance of geographic factors in military
decisions and outcomes.
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3.) How the Russian Revolution and the entry
of the United States
affected the course and outcome of the war.
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4.) The nature of war, the human costs (military
and civilian) on all
sides of the conflict, including how colonial
peoples contributed to
the war effort.
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5.) Human rights and genocide, including the
Ottoman government's
actions against Armenian citizens.
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Evaluate the consequences of past events and
decisions and
determine the lessons learned.
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Relate current events to the physical and
human characteristics
of places and regions.
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Construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate and employ
information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and
apply it in oral and written presentations.
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Show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular
historical events and larger social, economic and political trends
and developments.
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Understand events and issues within the context in which an event
unfolded rather than solely in terms of present day norms and values.
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Understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical
events while recognizing that events could have taken other
directions.
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1.) The aims and negotiating roles of world
leaders, the terms and
influence of the Treaty of Versailles and
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen
Points, and the causes and effects of U.S.
rejection of the League of
Nations on world politics.
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2.) The effects of the war and resulting peace
treaties on population
movement, the international economy, and shifts
in the geographic
and political borders of Europe and the Middle
East.
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3.) The widespread disillusionment with prewar
institutions, authorities,
and values that resulted in a void that was
later filled by totalitarians.
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4.) The influence of World War I on literature,
art and intellectual life
in the West. (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the "lost
generation" of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway)
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Compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences
of past events and decisions and determine the lessons learned.
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Construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate and employ
information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and
apply it in oral and written presentations.
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Recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects,
including the limitations on determining cause and effect.
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Interpret past events and issues within the context in which an
event unfolded rather than solely in terms of present day norms
and values.
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Understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical
events while recognizing that events could have taken other
directions.
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Standard
10.7
Students analyze the
rise of totalitarian governments after World War I, in terms of:
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1.) The causes and consequences of the Russian
Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain
control (e.g., the Gulag)
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2.) Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union
and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence
of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror
Famine in Ukraine)
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3.) The rise, aggression, and human costs
of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and
the Soviet Union noting their common and dissimilar traits.
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Standard
10.8
Students analyze the
causes and consequences of the Second World War, in terms of:
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1.) The German, Italian, and Japanese drives
for empire in the 1930's, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking and other
atrocities in China and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
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2.) The role of appeasement, nonintervention
(isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United
States prior to the outbreak of World War II
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3.) The identification and location of the
Allied and Axis powers; the major turning points of the war, the principal
theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions; and the resulting war conferences
and political resolutions with emphasis on the importance of geographic
factors.
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4.) The political, diplomatic and military
leadership (e.g., biographies of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur,
Dwight Eisenhower)
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5.) The Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity,
especially against the European Jews, its transformation into the Final
Solution and the Holocaust resulting in the murder of six million Jewish
civilians.
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6.) The human costs of the war, with particular
attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain,
United States, China, and Japan.
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Standard
10.9
Students analyze the
international developments in the post-World War II world, in terms of:
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1.) The economic and military power shifts
caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear
weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic
recovery of Germany and Japan.
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2.) The causes of the Cold War, with the free
world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition
for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile.
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3.) The importance of the Truman Doctrine
and Marshall Plan which established the pattern for the postwar American
policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of
communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas
such as Southeast Asia (i.e., Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa.
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4.) The Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao
Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China
(e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen
Square uprising)
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5.) Uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956),
and Czechoslovakia (1968) and their resurgence in the 1970's and 1980's
as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control .
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6.) How the forces of nationalism developed
in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding
the need for a Jewish state, the significance and effects of the location
and establishment of Israel on world affairs.
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7.) The reasons for the collapse of the Soviet
Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military
commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite
states and the non-Russian Soviet republics.
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8.) The establishment and work of the United
Nations, the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, and NATO, Organization of American States
and their purposes and functions.
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1.) Challenges in the region, including its
geopolitical, cultural,
military, and economic significance and the
international relationships
in which it is involved.
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2.) The recent history of the region, including
the political divisions
and systems, key leaders, religious issues,
natural features, resources,
and population patterns.
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3.) The important trends in the region today
and whether they
appear to serve the cause of individual freedom
and democracy.
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Evaluate the consequences of past events and decisions
and determine the lessons learned.
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Use a variety of maps and documents to interpret human
movement and the frictions that develop between population
groups.
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Relate current events to the physical and human characteristics
of places and regions.
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Construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate and employ
information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and
apply it in oral and written presentations.
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Show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular
historical events and larger social, economic and political trends
and developments.
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Interpret past events and issues within the context in which
an event unfolded rather than solely in terms of present day
norms and values.
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Standard
10.11
Students analyze the
integration of countries into the world economy, and the information, technological
and communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers)
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