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Vocabulary: The attached vocabulary list came from the Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum and should be covered throughout the course of the year if you're following the MC3 units. "I Can" Statements The attached "I Can" statements were developed during the Wexford-Missaukee Intermediate School District curriculum review for Social Studies.

Common Core Writing Examples from Mason Lake Oceana ISD's Social Studies Network. Common Core (College and Career Readiness Standards) for content literacy in 9th and 10th grade Social Studies.

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[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 1 - Foundations of World History: Eras 1-3, Beginnings to 300 CE**
===//WHG F1: // __World Historical and Geographical “Habits of Mind” and Central Concepts__ - Explain and use key conceptual devices world historians/geographers use to organize the past including periodization schemes (e.g., major turning points, different cultural and religious calendars), and different spatial frames (e.g., global, interregional, and regional). === **RESOURCE: The Cro-Magnons** //High School World History presents a fantastic opportunity to delve deeply into primary and secondary sources. This one from Classzone.com could be CCRS ready by determining central ideas (CCRS Reading 2), context clues for unfamiliar words (CCRS Reading 3)// **RESOURCE: [|Science Odyssey] ** //This presents a graphical look at the evolution of humans, and includes the ability to hover over a picture to learn more about each stage of development. After viewing this together and giving students access to the site, you could do a brief writing to hit CCRS Writing Standard 1.a which details the development of humans. //

===//WHG F2: // __Systems of Human Organizations __ - Use the examples listed below to explain the basic features and differences between hunter-gatherer societies, pastoral nomads, civilizations, and empires, focusing upon the differences in their political, economic and social systems, and their changing interactions with the environment. === **RESOURCE: [|A Hymn to the Sun] and [|A Hymn to the Sun]** //Using both of these links to the same poem (different translations) a discussion or group activity in class centered around the different translations and whether or not the overall message of the "Hymn to the Sun" remains the same between translations could hit CCRS Reading Standard 6.//
 * ===Changes brought on by the Agricultural Revolution, including the environmental impact of settlements ===
 * ===TWO ancient river civilizations, such as those that formed around the Nile, Indus, Tigris-Euphrates, or Yangtze ===
 * ===Classical China or India (Han China or Gupta empires) ===
 * ===Classical Mediterranean (Greece and Rome) ===

//WHG F4: // __Regional Interactions__ - Identify the location and causes of frontier interactions and conflicts, and internal disputes between cultural, social and/or religious groups in classical China, the Mediterranean world, and south Asia (India) prior to 300 C.E.

[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 2 - Era 4: Expanding and Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 300 CE to 1500 CE**
//WHG 4.1.1: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Crisis in the Classical World __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Explain the responses to common forces of change that led to the ultimate collapse of classical empires and discuss the consequences of their collapse.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 4.1.3: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Trade Networks and Contacts __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the development, interdependence, specialization, and importance of interregional trading systems both within and between societies including
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">land-based routes across the Sahara, Eurasia, and Europe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">water-based routes across Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, South China Sea, and Red and Mediterranean Seas.

[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 3 - Era 5: The Emergence of the First Global Age, 15th to 18th Centuries**
//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 5.1.2: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __World Religions__ - Use historical and modern maps to analyze major territorial transformations and movements of world religions including the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Christianity to the Americas, and Islam to Southeast Asia, and evaluate the impact of these transformations/movements on the respective human systems.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 5.3.1: //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ottoman Empire through the 18th Century __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the major political, religious, economic, and cultural transformations in the Ottoman Empire by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">using historical and modern maps to describe the empire’s origins (Turkic migrations), geographic expansion, and contraction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the impact of the Ottoman rule.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 5.3.2: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __East Asia through the 18th Century__ - Analyze the major political, religious, economic, and cultural transformations in East Asia by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the major reasons for the continuity of Chinese society under the Ming and Qing dynasties, including the role of Confucianism, the civil service, and Chinese oceanic exploration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the changes in Japanese society by describing the role of geography in the development of Japan, the policies of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the influence of China on Japanese society.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 5.3.3: //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">South Asia/India through the 18th Century __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the global economic significance of India and the role of foreign influence in the political, religious, cultural, and economic transformations in India and South Asia including the Mughal Empire and the beginnings of European contact.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 5.3.4: //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Russia ____<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> through the 18th Century __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the major political, religious, economic, and cultural transformations in Russia including
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Russian imperial expansion and top-down westernization/modernization
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the impact of its unique location relative to Europe and Asia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the political and cultural influence (e.g., written language) of Byzantine Empire, Mongol Empire, and Orthodox Christianity.

[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 4 - Era 6: An Age of Global Revolutions, 18th Century to 1914**
//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 6.1.1: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Global Revolutions __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the causes and global consequences of major political and industrial revolutions focusing on changes in relative political and military power, economic production, and commerce.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 6.2.1: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Political Revolutions __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the Age of Revolutions by comparing and contrasting the political, economic, and social causes and consequences of at least three political and/or nationalistic revolutions (American, French, Haitian, Mexican or other Latin American, or Chinese Revolutions).

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 6.2.2: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Growth of Nationalism and Nation-states __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Compare and contrast the rise of the nation-states in a western context (e.g., Germany, Italy) and non-western context (e.g., Meiji Japan).

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 6.3.1: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Europe __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the economic, political, and social transformations in Europe by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing and explaining the impact of economic development on European society
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">explaining how democratic ideas and revolutionary conflicts influenced European society, noting particularly their influence on religious institutions, education, family life, and the legal and political position of women
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">using historical and modern maps to describe how the wars of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods and growing nationalism changed the political geography of Europe and other regions (e.g., Louisiana Purchase).

[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 5 - Era 7: Global Crisis and Achievement 1900-1945**
//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.1.1: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Increasing Government and Political Power __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Explain the expanding role of state power in managing economies, transportation systems, and technologies, and other social environments, including its impact of the daily lives of their citizens.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.1.2 // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Comparative Global Power __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Use historical and modern maps and other sources to analyze and explain the changes in the global balance of military, political, and economic power between 1900 and1945 (including the changing role of the United States and those resisting foreign domination).

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.1.3: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Twentieth Century Genocide__ - Use various sources including works of journalists, journals, oral histories, films, interviews, and writings of participants to analyze the causes and consequences of the genocides of Armenians, Romas (Gypsies), and Jews, and the mass exterminations of Ukrainians and Chinese.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.1.4 // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Global Technology __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Describe significant technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs in transportation, communication, medicine, and warfare and analyze how they both benefited and imperiled humanity.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.1.5: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Total War__ - Compare and contrast modern warfare and its resolution with warfare in the previous eras: include analysis of the role of technology and civilians.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.2.1: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __World War I__ - Analyze the causes, characteristics, and long-term consequences of World War I by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the causes of the war including nationalism, industrialization, disputes over territory, systems of alliances, imperialism, and militarism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the distinctive characteristics and impacts of the war on the soldiers and people at home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">explaining the major decisions made in the Versailles Treaty and analyzing its spatial and political consequences, including the mandate system, reparations, and national self-determination around the globe.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.2.2: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Inter-war Period__ - Analyze the transformations that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">examining the causes and consequences of the economic depression on different regions, nations, and the globe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">describing and explaining the rise of fascism and the spread of communism in Europe and Asia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">comparing and contrasting the rise of nationalism in China, Turkey, and India.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.2.3: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __World War II__ - Analyze the causes, course, characteristics, and immediate consequences of World War II by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">explaining the causes of World War II, including aggression and conflict appeasement that led to war in Europe and Asia (e.g., Versailles Treaty provisions, Italian invasion of Ethiopia, Spanish Civil War, rape of Nanjing, annexation of Austria and Sudetenland)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">explaining the Nazi ideology, policies, and consequences of the Holocaust (or Shoah)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the major turning points and unique characteristics of the war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">explaining the spatial and political impact of the Allied negotiations on the nations of Eastern Europe and the world
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">analyzing the immediate consequences of the war’s end including the devastation, effects on population, dawn of the atomic age, the occupation of Germany and Japan
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">describing the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as global superpowers.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.2.4: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Revolutionary and/or Independence Movements __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Compare two revolutionary and/or independence movements of this era (Latin America, India, China, the Arab World, and Africa) with at least one from the previous era.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.3.1: //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Russian Revolution __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the rise of Bolsheviks through the conclusion of World War II, including the five-year plans, collectivization of agriculture, and military purges.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.3.2: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Europe and Rise of Fascism and Totalitarian States__ - Compare the ideologies, policies, and governing methods of at least two 20th-century dictatorial regimes (Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Soviet Union) with those absolutist states in earlier eras.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.3.3: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Asia__ - Analyze the political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in this era, including
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Japanese imperialism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Chinese nationalism, the emergence of communism, and civil war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Indian independence struggle.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.3.4: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Americas __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in this era, including
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">economic imperialism (e.g., dollar diplomacy)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">foreign military intervention and political revolutions in Central and South America
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">nationalization of foreign investments.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 7.3.5: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Middle East __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Analyze the political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in this era, including
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the decline of the Ottoman Empire
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">changes in the Arab world including the growth of Arab nationalism, rise of Arab nation-states, and the increasing complexity (e.g., political, geographic, economic, and religious) of Arab peoples
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the role of the Mandate system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the discovery of petroleum resources.

[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 6 - Era 8: The Cold War and its Aftermath, 1945 to 2000**
//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 8.1.1: //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Origins of the Cold War __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Describe the factors that contributed to the Cold War including the differences in ideologies and policies of the Soviet bloc and the West; political, economic, and military struggles in the 1940s and 1950s; and development of Communism in China.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 8.1.2: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Cold War Conflicts__ - Describe the major arenas of conflict, including
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the ways the Soviet Union and the United States attempted to expand power and influence in Korea and Vietnam
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ideological and military competition in THREE of the following areas: Congo, Cuba, Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, Indonesia, and Berlin
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the arms and space race.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG 8.1.3: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">End of the Cold War __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Develop an argument to explain the end of the Cold War and its significance as a 20th-century event, and the subsequent transitions from bi-polar to multi-polar center(s) of power.

[[image:nmlcss/folder.jpg width="99" height="82"]]**MC3 Unit 7 - Contemporary Global Issues, Past to Present**
//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">WHG CG1: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> __Population__ - <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explain the causes and consequences of population changes over the past 50 years by analyzing the
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">population change (including birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, growth rate, doubling time, aging population, changes in science and technology)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">distributions of population (including relative changes in urban-rural population, gender, age, patterns of migrations, and population density)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">relationship of the population changes to global interactions, and their impact on three regions of the world.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG CG2: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Resources__ - Explain the changes over the past 50 years in the use, distribution, and importance of natural resources (including land, water, energy, food, renewable, non-renewable, and flow resources) on human life, settlement, and interactions by describing and evaluating
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">change in spatial distribution and use of natural resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the differences in ways societies have been using and distributing natural resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">social, political, economic, and environmental consequences of the development, distribution, and use of natural resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">major changes in networks for the production, distribution, and consumption of natural resources including growth of multinational corporations, and governmental and non-governmental organizations (e.g., OPEC, NAFTA, EU, NATO, World Trade Organization, Red Cross, Red Crescent)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the impact of humans on the global environment.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG CG3: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"> __Patterns of Global Interactions__ - Define the process of globalization and evaluate the merit of this concept to describe the contemporary world by analyzing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">economic interdependence of the world’s countries and world trade patterns
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the exchanges of scientific, technological, and medical innovations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">cultural diffusion and the different ways cultures/societies respond to “new” cultural ideas and patterns
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">comparative economic advantages and disadvantages of regions, regarding cost of labor, natural resources, location, and tradition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">distribution of wealth and resources and efforts to narrow the inequitable distribution of resources.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHG CG4: //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">__Conflict, Cooperation, and Security__ - Analyze the causes and challenges of continuing and new conflicts by describing media type="custom" key="11993703"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">tensions resulting from ethnic, territorial, religious, and/or nationalist differences (e.g., Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, al Qaeda, Shining Path)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">causes of and responses to ethnic cleansing/genocide/mass extermination (e.g., Darfur, Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">local and global attempts at peacekeeping, security, democratization, and administering international justice and human rights
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the type of warfare used in these conflicts, including terrorism, private militias, and new technologies.