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US History Essentials
Essential Standards--Semester 1
Essential standards--Semester 2
World History Essentials
Essential Standards--1st Semester
Essential Standards--2nd Semester
Economics Essentials
Civics Essentials
Sociology Essentials
AP Government Learning Essentials
Semester 1:
Semester 2:
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US History Essentials
Essential Standards--Semester 1
1. 1. SOC.9-12.6.1.4 Use census data from 1790-1940 to describe changes in the
composition, distribution, and density of the American population and analyze their
causes, including immigration, the Great Migration, and urbanization.
2. 2. SOC.9-12.6.2.1 Locate on a map the territories (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines,
Hawaii, Panama Canal Zone) acquired by the United States during its emergence as an
imperial power between 1890 and 1914, and analyze the role the Spanish American
War, the Philippine Revolution, the Panama Canal, the Open Door Policy, and the
Roosevelt Corollary played in expanding America's global influence and redefining its
foreign policy.
3. 3 SOC.9-12.6.2.2 Explain the causes of World War I, the reasons for American
neutrality and eventual entry into the war, and America's role in shaping the course of
the war.
4. 4 SOC.9-12.6.2.3 Analyze the domestic impact of WWI on the growth of the government
(e.g., War Industries Board), the expansion of the economy, the restrictions on civil
liberties (e.g., Sedition Act, Red Scare, Palmer Raids), and the expansion of women's
suffrage.
5. 5 SOC.9-12.6.3.3 Analyze the successes and failures of efforts to expand women's
rights, including the work of important leaders (e.g., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton) and the eventual ratification of the 19th Amendment.
6. 6 SOC.9-12.7.1.2 Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the
Great Depression
7. 7 SOC.9-12.7.1.3 Explain and evaluate Roosevelt's New Deal Policies
8. 8 SOC.9-12.7.2.1 Analyze the factors contributing to World War II in Europe and in the
Pacific region, and America's entry into war including
9. 9 SOC.9-12.7.2.3 Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S.
participation in World War II
Essential standards--Semester 2
1. 1. SOC.9-12.8.1.1 Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War including:
SOC.9-12.8.1.1.c actions by both countries in the last years of and years following World
War II (e.g., the use of the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, North
American Treaty Alliance (NATO), and Warsaw Pact)
2. 2. SOC.9-12.8.1.2 Evaluate the origins, setbacks, and successes of the American policy
of "containing" the Soviet Union, including:
SOC.9-12.8.1.2.d U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the foreign and domestic
consequences of the war (e.g., relationship/conflicts with U.S.S.R. and China, U.S.
military policy and practices, responses of citizens and mass media)
3. 3. SOC.9-12.8.2.4 Using core democratic values, analyze and evaluate the competing
perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court
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decisions (e.g., Roe v Wade, Gideon, Miranda, Tinker, Hazelwood), the Vietnam War
(anti-war and counter-cultural movements), environmental movement, women's rights
movement, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal.
4. SOC.9-12.8.3.1 Analyze the key events, ideals, documents, and organizations in the
struggle for civil rights by African Americans including:
SOC.9-12.8.3.1.b Supreme Court decisions and governmental actions (e.g., Brown v.
Board (1954), Civil Rights Act (1957), Little Rock schools desegregation, Civil Rights Act
(1964), Voting Rights Act (1965)
5. SOC.9-12.8.3.1 Analyze the key events, ideals, documents, and organizations in the
struggle for civil rights by African Americans including:
SOC.9-12.8.3.1.c protest movements, organizations, and civil actions (e.g., integration
of baseball, Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), March on Washington (1963),
freedom rides, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), Nation of Islam, Black Panthers)
6. SOC.9-12.8.3.3 Analyze the causes and course of the women's rights movement in
the 1960s and 1970s (including role of population shifts, birth control, increasing number
of women in the work force, National Organization for Women (NOW), and the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA)).
7. SOC.9-12.9.1.2 Analyze the transformation of American politics in the late 20th and
early 21st centuries including: SOC.9-12.9.1.2.a growth of the conservative movement in
national politics, including the role of Ronald Reagan
8. SOC.9-12.9.2.1 Explain the role of the United States as a super-power in the postCold War world, including advantages, disadvantages, and new challenges (e.g., military
missions in Lebanon, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Gulf War).
9. SOC.9-12.9.2.2 Analyze how the attacks on 9/11 and the response to terrorism have
altered American domestic and international policies (including e.g., the Office of
Homeland Security, Patriot Act, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, role of the United States in
the United Nations, NATO).
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World History Essentials
Essential Standards--1st Semester
1. Essential One: 4.1.2a Analyze the spread of Islam and Christianity
2. Essential Two: 4.3.5a Explain the impact of the Roman Catholic Church in medieval
Europe
3. Essential Three: 4.3.4a Analyze the rise and decline of the Byzantine Empire
4. Essential Four: 4.2.1b Identify and explain religious traditions of Islam
5. Essential Five: 4.2.1a Identify and explain the geographic extent of Muslim empires and
features in their society
6. Essential Six: 4.3.1c Analyze and Examine trans-Saharan trade
7. Essential Seven: F2.c Explain features of classical China or India
8. Essential Eight: 4.3.5d Explain the cultural and societal impact of the Renaissance and
the Reformation.
Essential Standards--2nd Semester
1. 5.2.1.b Explain how migrations of people's, plants, and animals impacted the
environment, politics, and society of the Americas.
2. 5.3.5.a Explain the origins and development of European overseas expansion.
3. 5.3.5.b Analyze transformations in Europe's state structure.
4. 5.3.5.c Analyze how the Enlightenment helped transform European society
5. 6.1.1and 6.2.3b Analyze causes and consequences of major political/industrial
revolutions.
6. 6.1.3.a Describe nationalism and its role in increasing global interactions.
7. 8.1.4 Mapping- using world political maps, explain the changing configuration of political
boundaries.
8. Common Core Reading- Evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media,
including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
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Economics Essentials
NOTE: These 8 essentials are taken from the State of Michigan’s High School
Economics Content Expectations. There are a total of 44 individual standards, the 8 that
were selected were chosen from a list of 23 that have been identified as being tested on
state evaluations either yearly or within a 3 year period of time.
1. 1.1.1 Scarcity, Choice, Opportunity Costs, and Comparative Advantage – Using
examples, explain how scarcity, choice, opportunity costs affect decisions that
households, businesses, and governments make in the marketplace and explain how
comparative advantage creates gains from trade.
2. 1.1.2 Entrepreneurship – Identify the risks, returns and other characteristics of
entrepreneurship that bear on its attractiveness as a career.
3. 1.3.1 Law of Supply – Explain the law of supply and analyze the likely change in supply
when there are changes in prices of the productive resources (e.g., labor, land, capital
including technology), or the profit opportunities available to producers by selling other
goods or services, or the number of sellers in a market.
4. 1.3.3 Price, Equilibrium, Elasticity, and Incentives – Analyze how prices change through
the interaction of buyers and sellers in a market including the role of supply, demand,
equilibrium, elasticity, and explain how incentives (monetary and non-monetary) affect
choices of households and economic organizations.
5. 2.1.9 American Economy in the World – Analyze the changing relationship between the
American economy and the global economy including, but not limited to, the increasing
complexity of American economic activity (e.g., outsourcing, off-shoring, and supplychaining) generated by the expansion of the global economy. (National Geography
Standard 11, p. 206)
6. 2.2.1 Federal Government and Macroeconomic Goals – Identify the three
macroeconomic goals of an economic system (stable prices, low unemployment, and
economic growth).
7. 3.1.2 Developing Nations – Assess how factors such as availability of natural resources,
investments in human and physical capital, technical assistance, public attitudes and
beliefs, property rights and free trade can affect economic growth in developing nations.
(National Geography Standards 1 and 4, pp. 184 and 190)
8. 3.2.1 Absolute and Comparative Advantage – Use the concepts of absolute and
comparative advantage to explain why goods and services are produced in one nation or
locale versus another. (National Geography Standard 11, p. 206)
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Civics Essentials
Essential Standards to be used for Pre and Post Testing for Civics 2013-2014 school
years. These standards are taken from the Michigan High School Standards for Social
Studies and are identified as standards that may be tested on the MME.
1. 1.2.1 Identify, distinguish among, and provide examples of different forms of
governmental structures.
2. 2.1.1 Explain the historical and philosophical origins of American constitutional
government and evaluate the influence of ideas found in the Magna Carta, English Bill of
Rights, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation
3. 2.1.2 Explain the significance of the major debates and compromises underlying the
formation and ratification of American constitutional government including the Virginia
and New Jersey plans, the Great Compromise and the promise for a bill of rights after
ratification.
4. 2.1.3 Explain how the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights
political principles of popular sovereignty, rule of law, checks and balances, separation
of powers, social compact, natural rights, individual rights, separation of church and
state, republicanism and federalism.
5. 3.1.1 Analyze the purposes, organization, functions, and processes of the legislative
branch as enumerated in Article I of the Constitution.
6. 3.1.2 Analyze the purposes, organization, functions, and processes of the executive
branch as enumerated in Article II of the Constitution.
7. 3.1.3 Analyze the purposes, organization, functions, and processes of the judicial branch
as enumerated in Article III of the Constitution.
5.3.2 Identify and explain political rights (e.g., freedom of speech, press, assembly, and petition;
and the right to vote and run for public office).
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Sociology Essentials
The Sociological Perspective
1. Develop an understanding of what social theory is.
Culture
2. Understand the norms and values of domestic culture.
3. Understand sanctions and methods to promote conformity.
4. Compare the norms and values of US culture with foreign cultures.
Socialization
5. Understand the primary agents of socialization and why they are influential.
6. Understand the concepts of resocialization and desocialization.
Social Organization
7. Understand the concepts of social structure, including statuses (positions), roles
(expectations attached to positions), institutions, and social networks.
Social Inequalities
8. Understand that societies differ based on the degree of inequality; thus, the course will
examine how race, class, gender, and age intersect in the structure of a given society.
9. Learn to distinguish between social inequalities and what sociologists call social
stratification. Understand the concept of ranking systems in which categories of people
who share some characteristic that is considered socially important (for example, wealth,
gender, race/ethnicity, age, or nationality) are socially evaluated as higher or lower than
other categories.
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Psychology
The Scientific Method
1. Students will understand the development of psychology as an empirical science and the
major subfields within psychology.
Development
2. Students will understand the process of how humans grow, learn and adapt to their
environment.
Cognition
3. Students will understand how organisms adapt to their environment through learning,
information process, and memory.
Biological Bases of Behavior
4. Students will understand structure and function of the nervous system in humans and
non-humans.
5. Students will understand the interaction between biological factors and experience.
Consciousness
6. Students will understand the relationship between conscious and unconscious process.
7. Students will understand the characteristics of sleep and theories that explain why we
sleep and dream.
Life Span Development
8. Students will understand the methods and issues in life span development.
9. Students will understand adolescence development.
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AP Government Learning Essentials
Semester 1:
1. Examine the kind of government established by the Constitution, including the
establishment of federalism, the separation of powers, and checks and balances.
2. Understand specific concerns of the framers involves both knowledge of the historical
situation at the time of the Constitutional Convention and an awareness of the
ideological and philosophical traditions on which the framers drew.
3. Understand how individual political beliefs about their government, its leaders, and the
U.S. political system in general are formed, how they evolve, and the processes by
which they are transmitted.
4. Understand what leads citizens to differ from one another in their political beliefs and
behaviors and the political consequences of these differences, including demographic
features of the American population, the different views that people hold of the political
process, group differences in political beliefs and behavior, and how changes in political
participation affect the political system.
5. Examine the significance of the historical evolution of the U.S. party system, the
functions and structures of political parties, and the effects they have on the political
process.
6. Explain for why some interests are represented by organized groups while others are
not, and the consequences of this difference in representation, what interest groups do,
how they do it, and how this affects both the political process and public policy .
7. Understand the role of the media in the political system, including the impact of the
media on public opinion, voter perceptions, campaign strategies, electoral outcomes,
agenda development, and the images of officials and candidates.
8. Understand how Congress shares powers with other institutions of national government,
it’s functions it perform and does not perform, as well as the powers that they do and do
not possess.
Semester 2:
1. Understand how the Executive shares powers with other institutions of national
government, it’s functions it perform and does not perform, as well as the powers that
they do and do not possess.
2. Understand how the Bureaucracy shares powers with other institutions of national
government, it’s functions it perform and does not perform, as well as the powers that
they do and do not possess.
3. Understand how the Judicial shares powers with other institutions of national
government, it’s functions it perform and does not perform, as well as the powers that
they do and do not possess.
4. Understand ties between the various branches of national government and political
parties, interest groups, the media, and state and local governments . For example, a
study of the conflicting interests and powers of the president and Congress may help
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explain repeated struggles to adopt a national budget.
Understand the formation of policy agendas, the enactment of public policies by
Congress and the president, and the implementation and interpretation of policies by the
bureaucracy and the courts are all stages in the policy process.
Understand policy networks and issue networks in the domestic and foreign policy
areas, the impact of federalism, interest groups, parties, and elections on policy
processes and policymaking in the federal context.
Understand the workings of the United States Supreme Court and familiarity with its
most significant decisions, the development of individual rights, and liberties and their
impact on citizens.
Examine judicial interpretations of various civil rights and liberties such as freedom of
speech, assembly, and expression; the rights of the accused; and the rights of minority
groups and women, and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Supreme Court
decisions as tools of social change.
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