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The 1980s - 1990s

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The 1980s - 1990s

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.
5.3 5.3

How Government Works
5.4 5.4

How International Relationships Function
6.2 6.2
Markets and Economic Systems
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 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 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.
    Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding United States history.
    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 United States history.
    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 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 United States history.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

1.  Evaluate the political and cultural contributions of groups and individuals to United States history during the 1980s and the 1990s.

2. Describe how the 1980’ were different from the 1960s and ‘70’s.

3. Describe the important events of Reagan’s presidency.

4. Define the term “Reaganomics.”

5. Compare and contrast the economic policies of George H.W. Bush to those of Carter and Reagan.

6. Describe the rise and fall of Communism.

7. Explain why the fall of the Berlin Wall was so significant.

8. Describe the significance of the Persian Gulf War.

9. List the ways in which the Gulf War was different for both the American troops and the American public.

10. Analyze the participation of women during war efforts of the past and the present.

11. List one way that Ted Turner and CNN revolutionized the way we view information, news, and the media

12. Analyze and discuss President Clinton’s library and its reflection on him as a person and as a President.

13. Discuss the events of the Clinton presidency and weigh its successes against its controversies.

14. Analyze the formation of cultural trends and their evolution throughout society.

Unit Essential Question(s)

What were the political, social, economical, and technological shifts that occurred in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s?

How did individuals in government change the overall political and social structures in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s?

How did culture change and ultimately make an impact in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s?

End of Unit Assessment

The 1980s-1990s Test .pdf

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