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SOAR Program Social Studies Syllabus

CEDARS Code: 04064             Course: SOC430            Credit .5

This course meets Washington State and Marysville School District graduation requirements. This course meets the following Washington State Learning Goals:

  • To know and apply the core concepts of one of more of the following subjects:
  •      Government, Economics, Civics, History and Geography.
  • To think analytically, logically, and creatively while integrating experience and research to make informed inquiry and reasoned judgments about current and past world problems.

Learning Goals: For students to examine and interpret major ideas and the core values of our local communities, state, country, and international community, including their histories, laws and forms of government by 1) completing projects and assignments and 2) analyzing historical time, events and individuals who are influential in our cultures, country and state, and internationally.

 

Performance Objectives: (Purpose statements)

  • To be aware of current events on local, national and international levels and to evaluate our role in them.
  • To analyze information from geographic tools and draw conclusions on issues and events
  • To gain awareness of ourselves and others through the study of different cultures, their ideals, their beliefs, functions and cultural roots.

           

Learning Activities: (see specific assignments on weekly checklists)

In the News- daily                                           Classroom Based Assessment (Constitutional Issues)

Current events                                               Constitution/Bill of Rights/Citizenship World Religions

           

Resources

Upfront-New York Times                  Nystrom Desk Atlas                         

World History Textbook                    US Constitution

CNN Student News                            Independent News Sources(Your Choice)

Evaluation: To receive credit and to make satisfactory progress each term, students must meet 80% completion of all assigned work, with a grade of 75% or higher. 

Course Standards/GLE History (World/US/State)

Understand and analyze historical time and chronology

1.1 Understand events, trends, and movements shaping US, world and Washington State History.

2.1 Describe and compare patterns of life over time in difference historical periods.

4.1.1 Analyze change and continuity within a historical time period.

4.2.2 Analyze how cultures and cultural groups have shaped history.

 

 

Course Standards/GLE Civics

1.1.1 Analyze and evaluate the ways in which the US Constitution and other fundamental documents promote key ideals and principles.

1.3.1 Analyze relationships and tensions between national interests and international issues in the world past and present.

1.1.2 Evaluate relationships between key ideals and historical and current realities.

Course Standards/GLE Geography

3.1.1 Analyzes information from geographic tools, including computer-based mapping systems, to draw conclusions on an issue or event.

3.2.3 Analyzes the causes and effects of voluntary and involuntary migration in the United States in the past or present

 

 

Course Standards/GLE CWP

 


5.2.1 Creates and uses research questions that are tied to an essential question to focus inquiry on an idea, issue, or event

5.2.2 Evaluates the validity, reliability, and credibility of sources when researching an issue or event

4.4.1 Evaluates positions on a current issue based on an analysis of history

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