Social Studies HS Guide

○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will evaluate how international trade policies affect the economy of the United States. U.S. GOV Standard 5.4 ● Students will craft an argument for an appropriate role for the United States to take in addressing a global economic, environmental, or social issue such as: humanitarian aid, migratio, pandemics, and loss of wildlife habitat. ○ Learning Intention #1: (focuses on one global economic, environmental, or social issue; educators may choose from any of the above.) ■ Students will craft an argument for an appropriate role for the United States to take in addressing a pandemic. ○ Learning Intention #2: (focuses on one global economic, environmental, or social issue; educators may choose from any of the above.) ■ Students will craft an argument for an appropriate role for the United States to take in addressing migration. NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with history to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a US government and citizenship 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: GOV Standard 5 ○ Application of the following skills: ■ Sourcing ■ Contextualization ■ Corroboration ■ Close Reading POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS ● How do we determine what is in our national interest, and how should that determination guide our foreign policy? ● What are the best ways to ensure the future economic health of the United States? ● What role should the United States play in addressing global economic, environmental, or social issues? VOCABULARY ● Foreign policy ● Department of State ● Treaties ● Agreements ● Alliances ● Military intervention ● Isolationism

● Economic sanctions ● Security measures ● Global economic interdependence

● International trade ● Humanitarian aid

● Migration ● Pandemics