Appendix on Implementing District Standards
VDOE. Virginia Studies Standards of Learning. Virginia Department of Education, 2019.
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/history_socialscience/index.shtml
Some of the skills and standards students will need to address are:
VS.1-The student will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis, economic decision making, and responsible citizenship.63
VS.2-The student will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between physical geography and the lives of the native peoples, past and present, of Virginia.64
Students will demonstrate and address these skills by completing their ancestry project. Students will be analyzing maps, economics and historical thinking regarding the continent of Africa. Students will also be exploring these geography skills of native peoples by exploring, learning and studying about the Native American peoples of the U.S. and the true depiction of the mistreatment of these native peoples during this country’s founding.
Some other relevant standards include:
VS.3- The student will demonstrate an understanding of the first permanent English settlement in America.65
VS.7-The student will demonstrate an understanding of the issues that divided our nation and led to the Civil War.66
VS.8-The student will demonstrate an understanding of the reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War.67
Students will demonstrate these skills by completing their debate team discussions, as well as their research and exploration of the different historical events. The students will be demonstrating their knowledge of these events by completing these debates, as well as the reflections of the debates. Specifically, regarding the civil war, students will be exploring the issues surrounding the civil war and its effects, especially relating to reconstruction.
Additionally, V.10-the student will demonstrate an understanding of Virginia government, geography, and economics.68
Students will be following up their exploration of debate and the structure of government, to analyze and understand the makeup of the Virginia State government and how they can be involved in impacting change within that system.
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