Social Studies HS Guide

characteristics among different places and regions.

○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will identify the effects of the diffusion and distribution of cultural characteristics among different places and regions. ● WG Standard 3.5: Students will explain how the basic tenets of world religions impact on the daily lives of people, including: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will explain how the basic tenets of Hinduism impact on the daily lives of people. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will explain how the basic tenets of Buddhism impact on the daily lives of people. ○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will explain how the basic tenets of Judaism impact on the daily lives of people. ○ Learning Intention #5: ■ Students will explain how the basic tenets of Christianity impact on the daily lives of people. ○ Learning Intention #6: ■ Students will explain how the basic tenets of Islam impact on the daily lives of people. ● WG Standard 3.6: Students will cite examples of how globalization creates challenges and opportunities for different cultures. ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will cite examples of how globalization creates challenges for different cultures. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will cite examples of how globalization creates opportunities for different cultures. ● WG Standard 3.7: Students will demonstrate an understanding of their own culture’s connection to geography . ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will demonstrate an understanding of their own culture’s connection to geography . NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with social studies to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a geography course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: WG Standard 3: ○ Corroboration • What do other documents say?

• Do the documents agree? If not, why? • What are other possible documents? • What documents are most reliable? ○ Close Reading

• What claims does the author make? • What evidence does the author use? • What language (words, phrases, images, symbols) does the author use to persuade the document's audience? • How does the document's language indicate the author's perspective?