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America as a World Power

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America as a World Power

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Civics and Government, Geography, History, Reading and Writing in History and Social Studies
Related Academic Standards
CC.8.5.9-10.C CC.8.5.9-10.C
Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
5.4 5.4

How International Relationships Function
6.3 6.3
Functions of Government
7.2 7.2
Physical Characteristics of Places and Regions
7.4 7.4
Interactions Between People and the Environment
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  • Big Ideas
    Historical context is needed to comprehend time and space.
    Historical interpretation involves an analysis of cause and result.
    Perspective helps to define the attributes of historical comprehension.
    The history of the Commonwealth continues to influence Pennsylvanians today, and has impacted the United States and the rest of the world.
    The history of the United States continues to influence its citizens, and has impacted the rest of the world.
  • Concepts
    Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on Pennsylvania’s society.
    Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on the United States society.
    Comprehension of the experiences of individuals, society, and how past human experience has adapted builds aptitude to apply to civic participation.
    Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions.
    Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions. Some consequences may be impacted by forces of the irrational or the accidental.
    Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context of events and actions.
    Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context, as well as an awareness of point of view.
    Historical skills (organizing information chronologically, explaining historical issues, locating sources and investigate materials, synthesizing and evaluating evidence, and developing arguments and interpretations based on evidence) are used by an analytical thinker to create a historical construction.
    Learning about the past and its different contexts shaped by social, cultural, and political influences prepares one for participation as active, critical citizens in a democratic society.
    State and local history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    State and local history can offer an individual, discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding the history of Pennsylvania.
    United States history can offer an individual discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    United States history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
  • Competencies
    Analyze a primary source for accuracy and bias and connect it to a time and place in Pennsylvania.
    Analyze the interaction of cultural, economic, geographic, political, and social relations for a specific time and place.
    Articulate the context of a historical event or action.
    Construct a biography of a Pennsylvanian and generate conclusions regarding his/her qualities and limitations.
    Construct a biography of an American and generate conclusions regarding his/her qualities and limitations.
    Evaluate cause-and-result relationships bearing in mind multiple causations.
    Synthesize a rationale for the study of individuals in Pennsylvania history.
    Synthesize a rationale for the study of individuals in United States history.

Objectives

The students will be able to:

1. Evaluate the political and cultural contributions of groups and individuals to United States history.

2. Analyze and describe the White Man’s Burden

3. Describe the short-term successes and failures of the Open Door Policy.

4. Identify key figures and terms associated with the Open Door Notes.

5. Explain the key events surrounding the Open Door Notes.

6 Describe the contributions of the Rough Riders to the Spanish-American War.

7. Analyze the Roosevelt Corollary and summarize its meaning.

8. Explain the political situations of the Latin American countries entering the 20th century.

9. Describe the effect the Panama Canal has had on the area's environment.

10. Assess the role of the United States as a world power.

11. Describe the political and cultural contributions of groups and individuals to United States history from the period of American Imperialism.

 

Unit Essential Question(s)

What is the justification for America’s involvement in various conflicts that eventually made America a world power?

How did Americas’ involvement in imperialism make America a world power?

What was the importance of geogrphy to the advancement of America as a world power?

End of Unit Assessment

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