Social Studies HS Guide

at aGlance ● Work together as a PLC to determine individual standard pacing.

about social organization, including the role of women and the structure of the ideal city-state. ● Cicero’s Letters and Orations - offer perspective on Roman politics, law, and social norms, including discussion of gender roles and family life. ● The Ramayana and The Mahabharata - epic poems that provide depictions of societal norms, familial relationships, and gender roles. ● Confuctian Text “The Analects” - offer insights into Confucian philosophy and its impact on social organization, including the roles of men, women, and families. ● Thinking Like An Historian

STANDARDS

Students will use primary sources to identify patterns in the stratifcation of social and gender structures across classical civilizations. CONCEPTS (Nouns) SKILLS (Verbs) LANGUAGE SUPPORTS ● Primary sources ● Patterns ● Stratifcation ● Identify ● Inform ● Best Practices for MLs in Secondary Content Area Classes

● Social structures ● Gender structures ● Classical civilizations

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● Identify and defne what a classical civilization is. Examples include: ○ Greece, Rome, Mauryan and Gupta civilizations of India, and Qin and Han of China. ● Review thinking like an historian skills chart. ● Identify and analyze primary sources from classical civilizations that provide information about social and gender structures during classical civilizations. Consider resources identifed. ● Use evidence from primary sources to identify patterns of stratifcation in social and gender structures across classical civilizations.

VOCABULARY

● Primary source ● Social structure ● Gender structure ● Classical civilization ● Greece ● Rome ● Mauryan ● Gupta