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Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.SS.6-8.WGGS.1

Evaluate various interpretations in answer to compelling questions within and across disciplines.SS.6-8.WGGS.2

Generate supporting questions that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline.SS.6-8.WGGS.3

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts with close reading and disciplinary skills.SS.6-8.WGGS.4

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.SS.6-8.WGGS.5

Using varied source material, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence and clear reasoning.SS.6-8.WGGS.6

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.SS.6-8.WGGS.7

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.SS.6-8.WGGS.8

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence is acknowledged and critiqued.SS.6-8.WGGS.9

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.SS.6-8.WGGS.10

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.SS.6-8.WGGS.11

Compare rise and fall of governmental systems and political developments across the world.SS.6-8.WGGS.12

Examine instances of conflict, oppression, human rights violations and genocide across the world as well as responses to these violations.SS.6-8.WGGS.13

Describe the factors that shape identity, including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society.SS.6-8.WGGS.14

Interpret current events from a variety of cultural perspectives.SS.6-8.WGGS.15

Investigate cultural developments within and across human societies with attention to belief systems, philosophies, ideologies, and the arts.SS.6-8.WGGS.16

Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures across the world.SS.6-8.WGGS.17

Investigate Nevada's role in the world using the five themes of geography: place, location, human environment interaction, movement, and region.SS.6-8.WGGS.18

Analyze the use of conflict and/or diplomacy in global interactions.SS.6-8.WGGS.19

Explore instances of oppression in the modern world as well as individual and group resistance movements for social justice which have developed in response.SS.6-8.WGGS.20

Investigate the ways in which individuals and nations build communities of respect, equity, and diversity across the world today.SS.6-8.WGGS.21

Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of communities and nations around the world.SS.6-8.WGGS.22

Distinguish and apply the powers and responsibilities of global citizens, interest groups, and the media in a variety of governmental and nongovernmental contexts.SS.6-8.WGGS.23

Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people's lives.SS.6-8.WGGS.24

Investigate a current global issue and propose a course of action to solve it.SS.6-8.WGGS.25

Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of laws, treaties, and international agreements.SS.6-8.WGGS.26

Utilize and construct maps, charts, and other geographic representations to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in various places around the world.SS.6-8.WGGS.28

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods, and ideas.SS.6-8.WGGS.29

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular areas.SS.6-8.WGGS.30

Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.SS.6-8.WGGS.31

Analyze and explain the cultural, physical, and environmental characteristics of places and regions and how these affected the lives of the people who lived there.SS.6-8.WGGS.32

Explain how supply and demand, costs and competition influence market prices, wages, social, and environmental outcomes.SS.6-8.WGGS.34

Explain and evaluate how economic policies impact individuals, businesses, government structures, and international organizations from a local to global scale.SS.6-8.WGGS.33

Assess the economies of various nations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.SS.6-8.WGGS.35

Investigate the impact of global trade policies on nations and their citizens.SS.6-8.WGGS.36

Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.SS.6-8.EUSH.1

Evaluate various interpretations in answer to compelling questions within and across disciplines.SS.6-8.EUSH.2

Generate supporting documents that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline.SS.6-8.EUSH.3

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts with close reading and disciplinary skills.SS.6-8.EUSH.4

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.SS.6-8.EUSH.5

Using varied source materials, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence, and clear reasoning.SS.6-8.EUSH.6

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.SS.6-8.EUSH.7

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.SS.6-8.EUSH.8

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence is acknowledged and critiqued.SS.6-8.EUSH.9

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.SS.6-8.EUSH.10

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.SS.6-8.EUSH.11

Assess the impact of diverse ideologies on politics, society, and culture in early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.12

Investigate the factors that shaped group and national identity in early U.S. History and how that relates to views of American identity today.SS.6-8.EUSH.13

Interpret historical events from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives including but not limited to: Native Americans vs. settlers, Northerners vs. Southerners, native citizens vs. immigrants, etc.SS.6-8.EUSH.14

Evaluate the causes and effects of regional differences in early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.15

Analyze the influence of diverse cultural traditions on early American society.SS.6-8.EUSH.16

Analyze the impact of the political, social, cultural, economic, religious, geographic, intellectual, and artistic changes throughout the course of U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.17

Explain how individuals and events in Nevada's history both influence and are influenced by the larger national context.SS.6-8.EUSH.18

Analyze the impact of westward expansion on the Native communities of Nevada.SS.6-8.EUSH.19

Investigate migration and immigration patterns to Nevada as part of U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.20

Evaluate the use of conflict and diplomacy in international relations from a U.S. perspective.SS.6-8.EUSH.21

Investigate the causes, impacts, and attitudes towards conflict and war from various points of view throughout early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.22

Analyze the causes, impact, and abolition of slavery in U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.23

Analyze the ways in which dominant cultures have oppressed groups through institutionalized discrimination within U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.24

Evaluate the impact of individuals and reform movements on the struggle for greater civil rights and liberties throughout early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.25

Assess the impacts of cultural diffusion when diverse groups interact within early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.26

Investigate the ways in which individuals and groups build communities of respect, equity, and diversity throughout early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.27

Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of our community and nation.SS.6-8.EUSH.28

Analyze the intellectual, cultural, religious, and artistic contributions of diverse individuals in early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.29

Examine the role the media has played in shaping public perception and policies throughout early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.30

Describe the different political, civil, religious, and economic organizations throughout U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.31

Analyze the expansion of representative government throughout early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.32

Compare a current national issue to a historical event from early U.S. History in order to propose a solution based upon past outcomes.SS.6-8.EUSH.33

Evaluate the social, political, and economic changes that have impacted the evolution of laws throughout U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.34

Utilize and construct maps and images to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in early U.S History.SS.6-8.EUSH.35

Explain how the human, physical, and environmental characteristics of early U.S. regions influenced and impacted the creation of new cultures.SS.6-8.EUSH.36

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influenced the movement of people, goods, and ideas throughout early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.37

Explore the causes, motivations, and consequences of migration and immigration, both voluntary and forced, in early U.S. History; including but not limited to: Trail of Tears, western movement, Great Migration, various waves of immigration, etc.SS.6-8.EUSH.38

Explain how global circumstances affect changes in immigration, land use, and population distribution in various regions across early U.S History.SS.6-8.EUSH.39

Analyze the role of innovations and entrepreneurship in institutions throughout early U.S History.SS.6-8.EUSH.40

Evaluate how economic policies impact individuals, businesses, and society including, but not limited to: Louisiana Purchase, the slave trade, plantation economy, Reconstruction.SS.6-8.EUSH.41

Assess the state of the early U.S. economy based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.SS.6-8.EUSH.42

Investigate the effects of U.S. foreign economic policy both nationally and globally across early U.S. History.SS.6-8.EUSH.43