Appendix
New Mexico State, Santa Fe Public School's Structure
New Mexico's guiding principle for juniors and seniors in high school is: "1. High school students then undertake increasingly sophisticated study that is engaging, purposeful and useful in understanding ideas and issues that impact their lives as individuals and citizens in a democratic society. Social studies can enhance job opportunities, encourage civil participation, and enrich private life after high school.
The unit specifically address 9-12th grade Benchmark III-D: Understand how to exercise rights and responsibilities as citizens by participating in civic life and using skills that include interacting, monitoring and influencing.
New Mexico benchmarks for teaching US History and Government and Economics include: tracing the history of Civil Rights, the 13, 14 and 15th amendments and Supreme Court cases of Dred Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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