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Modern World History Standards

Identified in Synergy as Modern World History Learning Targets

*Unit Guide and Daily Lesson Plans refer to these standards. Offered in ODE notation, ODE full text, Grant Social Studies Department paraphrase for communicating to students

1

MWH.HS.HI.01

Reconstruct, interpret, and represent the chronology of significant events, developments, and narratives from history.

Retell a story from history and explain what happened, in order, and with details.

2

MWH.HS.HI.02

Compare and contrast institutions and ideas in history, noting cause and effect relationships.

Compare, with details, two governments, groups, organizations, social institutions, political ideologies, etc, and identify how one affected or affects the other or how they affected or affect each other.

3

MWH.HS.HI.03

Recognize and interpret continuity and/or change with respect to particular historical developments in the 20th Century.

Explain, with details, how something stayed the same or changed throughout the years 1901-2000.

4

MWH.HS.HI.04

Evaluate how contemporary perspectives affect historical interpretation.

Explain, with details, how the way we live our individual lives, influences our opinions of the past.

5

MWH.HS.HI.05

Recognize, assess and interpret relationships among events, issues, and developments in different spheres of human activity (i.e. economic, social, political, cultural).

Explain, with details, how a change in one area of human activity (culture, religion, politics, economics, social) can cause changes in other areas.

6

MWH.HS.HI.06

Analyze and evaluate the impact of economic, cultural or environmental factors that result in changes to population of cities, countries, or

regions.

Present a detailed explanation about the economic, cultural or political factors that cause entire communities of people to move to or to move away from a place.

7

MWH.HS.HI.07

Determine how human modification of the physical environment in a place affects both that place and other places.

Explain with details how humans can alter the environment. Include how that impacts the immediate environment as well as the environment not directly connected to that altered environment.

8

MWH.HS.GE.01

Illustrate and use geographic information using a variety of scales, patterns of distribution, and arrangement.

Create a detailed map that explains something from history.

9

MWH.HS.GE.02

Interpret and evaluate information using complex geographic representations.

Explain the detailed story from history that is presented in a good map.

10

MWH.HS.GE.03

Hypothesize why places and regions are important to human identity and serve as symbols to unify or fragment society.

Provide a detailed explanation as to why or how a place helps shape a culture and can cause conflicts with other cultures.

11

MWH.HS.SS.01

Ask questions that access prior knowledge, identify reasons to learn, and clarify key terms.

Ask yourself questions about future content that pulls from what you already know. Identify reason to learn the content. Define and understand words that are new to you.

12

MWH.HS.SS.02

Acquire and organize information by investigating multiple sources and recognizing patterns and trends.

Collect evidence from multiple credible sources and cite it properly both in the text and on a works cited page.

13

MWH.HS.SS.03

Analyze and evaluate the impact of economic, cultural or environmental factors that result in changes to population of cities, countries, or regions.

Present a detailed explanation about the economic, cultural or political factors that cause entire communities of people to move to or to move away from a place.

14

MWH.HS.SS.04

Apply learning through communication and problem solving skills in order to contribute to the betterment of personal, community and global circumstances.

Share your knowledge and understanding in a responsible manner with the world.