❖ What should be the role of the U.S. in global relations?
❖ Why do inequalities and oppression exist and how should it be addressed?
❖ How do cultural and physical geography shape decision-making?
❖ How can political and social power be limited or expanded?
❖ How does history shape identity?
❖ How do resources affect cooperation and conflict?
SS.6-8.WGGS.14. Describe the factors that shape identity, including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society.
SS.6-8.WGGS.16. Investigate cultural developments within and across human societies with attention to belief systems, philosophies, ideologies, and the arts.
SS.6-8.WGGS.17. Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures across the world.
SS.6-8.WGGS.20. Explore instances of oppression in the modern world as well as individual and group resistance movements for social justice which have developed in response.
SS.6-8.WGGS.22. Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of communities and nations around the world.
SS.6-8.WGGS.24. Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people's lives.
SS.6-8.WGGS.27. Utilize and construct maps, charts, and other geographic representations to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in various places around the world.
SS.6-8.WGGS.28. Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods and ideas.
SS.6-8.WGGS.29. Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular areas.
SS.6-8.WGGS.31. Analyze and explain the cultural, physical, and environmental characteristics of places and regions and how these affected the lives of the people who lived there.
SS.6-8.WGGS.32. Explain how supply and demand, costs and competition influence market prices, wages, social, and environmental outcomes.
SS.6-8.WGGS.34. Assess the economies of various nations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary systems, and other factors.
❖ Assimilation | ❖ Chinese Exclusion Act | ❖ Company Towns |
❖ Capitalism | ❖ Captains of Industry | ❖ Corporations |
❖ Gilded Age | ❖ Immigration | ❖ Industrialization |
❖ Labor Reforms | ❖ Laissez-Faire (Deregulation) | ❖ Poverty |
❖ Progressivism | ❖ Push and Pull Factors | ❖ Racism |
❖ Regulation | ❖ Robber Barons | ❖ The Jungle |
❖ Unions | ❖ Urbanization | ❖ Vertical Integration |
❖ Women's Suffrage |
The Philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie: Did it make him a hero? (2, 4)
Progressivism: Where will you put your million dollars? (2, 4)
Robber barons or captains of industry? (Seminar Discussion 4, 6)
Hyphenated Americanism (Close Read 2)
Declaration of Sentiments (Close Read 2)
Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Forced Assimilation? (DBQ and Controversial Issue 6, 7, 10)
Women's Suffrage (Textbook Lesson 4, 6)
Were Industrialists Good for America? (Discussion Lesson 8, 9)
The Homestead Strike (Close Read 2) (Seminar Discussion 4, 6)
Political Bosses (Close Read 2)
Settlement House (SAC 2, 6, 7, 9)
Japanese Segregation in San Francisco (DBQ 2, 4)
Booker T Washington v. W.E.B. Dubois (DBQ 4, 6)
Background On Woman Suffrage (Discussion 7, 9)
Anti-Suffragists (Close Read 2)
The Gilded Age: Is Greed Good? (2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11)