Appendix—Implementing District Standards
This curriculum unit is guided by the Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects 6 - 12 from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the State of California. It also addresses the California History-Social Science Framework for Grade Eight – United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict. Under this heading, The Development of American Constitutional Democracy, this unit speaks to the more general guiding questions, Why was there an American Revolution? and What were the legacies of the American Revolution? The course level question, unit focus questions, and lesson focus questions, are amplifications of these inquiries posed by the Framework, yet tailored more to the specific structure of my classroom.
Pursuant to this objective, students will “Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. ”80 The standards then call for students to take a position on a given topic in relation to a focus question and support that position with evidence from credible sources, while adopting a writing style consistent with that of an academic paper. Since, as a district, we have been implementing the Historical Inquiry model described in this curriculum unit for the past three years, this unit is fully compliant with the California Common Core Standards as well as the state’s History-Social Science Framework.
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