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Identify different types of citizenship and immigration statuses of individuals in the United States and the different rights and roles (e.g., voters, jurors, taxpayers, military, protesters, and officeholders) based on citizenship or immigration status.SS.6-8.CV.1.LC

Describe and analyze the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations from a national to local scale in impacting multiple individuals and communities.SS.6-8.CV.1.MdC

Evaluate the powers and responsibilities of individuals, political parties, interest groups, and the media; how these have changed over time; and the impacts on multiple communities.SS.6-8.CV.1.MC

Describe the origins and purposes and impact of governing documents and policies (e.g., U.S. Constitution, Illinois Constitution, laws, treaties, and international agreements) and synthesize their application and impacts on multiple groups of people with how they have changed over time.SS.6-8.CV.2.LC

Explain the origins, functions, and structure of government with reference to the U.S. Constitution, Illinois Constitution, and other systems of government and how they have impacted multiple groups of people.SS.6-8.CV.2.MdC

Analyze how the application of laws and the protection, granting, or denial of individual and collective rights have impacted participation and powers of various groups of people.SS.6-8.CV.2.MCa

Synthesize how the changes over time in the application of laws and granting or denial of rights have impacted governments, public officials, and bureaucracies at different levels in the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations within the United States.SS.6-8.CV.2.MCb

Identify the means used by individuals and groups to either maintain or change powers and protect, grant, or deny rights of individuals and communities in societies.SS.6-8.CV.3.LC

Analyze the origins, purposes, and processes connected to maintaining or changing powers and how individuals and societies protect, grant, or deny rights.SS.6-8.CV.3.MdC

Explain how granting rights for individuals or communities does not reduce the ability of other individuals or communities to exercise the same rights and evaluate how efforts to maintain systems or initiate change within societies have worked for or against the benefit or oppression of multiple groups.SS 6-8.CV.3.MC

Analyze the relationships among democratic principles, civic virtues, special interests, and perspectives to the ideas and principles contained in the constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements of the United States and other countries.SS.6-8.CV.4.LC

Analyze and synthesize ideas and principles contained in the founding and governing documents and practices of the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations within the United States.SS.6-8.CV.4.MdC

Evaluate and critique deliberative processes regarding the development and application of governing documents and policies and how they have changed over time.SS.6-8.CV.4.MC

Identify the impact of specific rules and laws (both those that are in effect and proposed) on multiple individuals and communities in relationship to the intended issues they were meant to address. Analyze cause-and-effect relationships of issues that resulted in specific rules and laws.SS.6-8.CV.5.LC

Analyze the perspectives and positions of multiple individuals and communities impacted by specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed); the equitable application of rules and laws; and consequences for not abiding by rules and laws historic and contemporary settings.SS.6-8.CV.5.MdC

Develop and evaluate procedures for making decisions in historic and contemporary settings (e.g., school; civil society; or local, state, or national governments).SS.6-8.CV.5.MC

Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.SS.6-8.EC.1

Explain how external benefits and costs influence choices.SS.6-8.EC.2

Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.SS.6-8.EC.3

Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.SS.6-8.EC.4

Describe the roles of institutions, such as corporations, nonprofit organizations and labor unions, in a market economy.SS.6-8.EC.5

Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.SS.6-8.EC.6

Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.SS.6-8.EC.7

Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.SS.6-8.EC.8

Evaluate employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income, and economic growth data and how they affect different groups.SS.6-8.EC.9

Analyze the relationship among skills, education, jobs, and income.SS.6-8.EC.FL.10

Explain the roles and relationships among savers, borrowers, interest, time, and the purposes for saving.SS.6-8.EC.FL.11

Identify how people choose to buy goods and services while still maintaining a budget based on income, taxes, savings, and fixed and variable expenses.SS.6-8.EC.FL.12

Explain the correlation among investors, investment options (and associated risks), and income/wealth.SS.6-8.EC.FL.13

Describe the connection among credit, credit options, interest, and credit history.SS.6-8.EC.FL.14

Analyze the relationship between financial risks and protection, insurance, and costsSS.6-8.EC.FL.15

Use geographic representations (e.g., maps, photographs, satellite images) to explain relationships between the locations (places and regions) and changes in their environment.SS.6-8.G.1

Use mapping and graphing to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.SS.6-8.G.2

Construct different representations to explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.SS.6-8.G.3

Explain how humans and their environment affect one another.SS.6-8.G.4

Compare and contrast the cultural and environmental characteristics of different places or regions.SS.6-8.G.5

Evaluate how cultural and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.SS.6-8.G.6

Explain how environmental characteristics affect human migration and settlement.SS.6-8.G.7

Explain how changes in transportation and communication influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the spread of ideas and culture.SS.6-8.G.8

Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.SS.6-8.G.9

Identify how cultural and environmental characteristics vary among regions of the world.SS.6-8.G.10

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use.SS.6-8.G.11

Analyze how the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influence patterns of world trade.SS.6-8.G.12

Identify and describe the contexts of a series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity based on the perspectives of multiple diverse groups.SS.6-8.H.1.LC

Analyze connections and disconnections among events and developments in broader historical contexts and identify the effects of events on groups of people who have been marginalized.SS.6-8.H.1.MdC

Evaluate the significance of historical events to multiple groups and the relationship to modern-day movements and events.SS.6-8.H.1.MC

Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.SS.6-8.H.2.LC

Analyze and compare multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of multiple groups of people during different historical eras relevant to the cultural groups.SS.6-8.H.2.MdC

Evaluate how perspectives of multiple individuals and groups have impacted the availability of information and the creation of historical sources.SS.6-8.H.2.MC

Classify the kinds of historical sources used in a secondary interpretation to include sources representing multiple perspectives.SS.6-8.H.3.LC

Detect possible biases and limitations in the historical record based on evidence collected from different kinds of historical sources by identifying the author, purpose, funding/source, type of publication/outlet, intended audience, etc.SS.6-8.H.3.MdC

Evaluate the validity of claims made in historical sources representing a variety of perspectives, describe the possible or actual impact(s) of the sources on audiences, and determine uses and applications.SS.6-8.H.3.MC

Describe the differences between correlation and causation in historical events and explain multiple causes and effects of historical events.SS.6-8.H.4.LC

Compare and contrast the central historical arguments in secondary works across multiple media.SS.6-8.H.4.MdC

Organize and critique applicable evidence to develop a coherent argument about the past.SS.6-8.H.4.MC

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiriesss.6-8

Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence

Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action

Identify different types of citizenship and immigration statuses of individuals in the United States and the different rights and roles (e.g., voters, jurors, taxpayers, military, protesters, and officeholders) based on citizenship or immigration status.SS.6-8.CV.1.LC

Describe and analyze the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations from a national to local scale in impacting multiple individuals and communities.SS.6-8.CV.1.MdC

Evaluate the powers and responsibilities of individuals, political parties, interest groups, and the media; how these have changed over time; and the impacts on multiple communities.SS.6-8.CV.1.MC

Describe the origins and purposes and impact of governing documents and policies (e.g., U.S. Constitution, Illinois Constitution, laws, treaties, and international agreements) and synthesize their application and impacts on multiple groups of people with how they have changed over time.SS.6-8.CV.2.LC

Explain the origins, functions, and structure of government with reference to the U.S. Constitution, Illinois Constitution, and other systems of government and how they have impacted multiple groups of people.SS.6-8.CV.2.MdC

Analyze how the application of laws and the protection, granting, or denial of individual and collective rights have impacted participation and powers of various groups of people.SS.6-8.CV.2.MCa

Synthesize how the changes over time in the application of laws and granting or denial of rights have impacted governments, public officials, and bureaucracies at different levels in the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations within the United States.SS.6-8.CV.2.MCb

Identify the means used by individuals and groups to either maintain or change powers and protect, grant, or deny rights of individuals and communities in societies.SS.6-8.CV.3.LC

Analyze the origins, purposes, and processes connected to maintaining or changing powers and how individuals and societies protect, grant, or deny rights.SS.6-8.CV.3.MdC

Explain how granting rights for individuals or communities does not reduce the ability of other individuals or communities to exercise the same rights and evaluate how efforts to maintain systems or initiate change within societies have worked for or against the benefit or oppression of multiple groups.SS 6-8.CV.3.MC

Analyze the relationships among democratic principles, civic virtues, special interests, and perspectives to the ideas and principles contained in the constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements of the United States and other countries.SS.6-8.CV.4.LC

Analyze and synthesize ideas and principles contained in the founding and governing documents and practices of the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations within the United States.SS.6-8.CV.4.MdC

Evaluate and critique deliberative processes regarding the development and application of governing documents and policies and how they have changed over time.SS.6-8.CV.4.MC

Identify the impact of specific rules and laws (both those that are in effect and proposed) on multiple individuals and communities in relationship to the intended issues they were meant to address. Analyze cause-and-effect relationships of issues that resulted in specific rules and laws.SS.6-8.CV.5.LC

Analyze the perspectives and positions of multiple individuals and communities impacted by specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed); the equitable application of rules and laws; and consequences for not abiding by rules and laws historic and contemporary settings.SS.6-8.CV.5.MdC

Develop and evaluate procedures for making decisions in historic and contemporary settings (e.g., school; civil society; or local, state, or national governments).SS.6-8.CV.5.MC

Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.SS.6-8.EC.1

Explain how external benefits and costs influence choices.SS.6-8.EC.2

Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.SS.6-8.EC.3

Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.SS.6-8.EC.4

Describe the roles of institutions, such as corporations, nonprofit organizations and labor unions, in a market economy.SS.6-8.EC.5

Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.SS.6-8.EC.6

Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.SS.6-8.EC.7

Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.SS.6-8.EC.8

Evaluate employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income, and economic growth data and how they affect different groups.SS.6-8.EC.9

Analyze the relationship among skills, education, jobs, and income.SS.6-8.EC.FL.1.LC

Explain the roles and relationships among savers, borrowers, interest, time, and the purposes for saving.SS.6-8.EC.FL.2.LC

Analyze the relationship among skills, education, jobs, and income.SS.6-8.EC.FL.10

Explain the roles and relationships among savers, borrowers, interest, time, and the purposes for saving.SS.6-8.EC.FL.11

Identify how people choose to buy goods and services while still maintaining a budget based on income, taxes, savings, and fixed and variable expenses.SS.6-8.EC.FL.12

Explain the correlation among investors, investment options (and associated risks), and income/wealth.SS.6-8.EC.FL.13

Describe the connection among credit, credit options, interest, and credit history.SS.6-8.EC.FL.14

Analyze the relationship between financial risks and protection, insurance, and costsSS.6-8.EC.FL.15

Use geographic representations (e.g., maps, photographs, satellite images) to explain relationships between the locations (places and regions) and changes in their environment.SS.6-8.G.1

Use mapping and graphing to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.SS.6-8.G.2

Construct different representations to explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.SS.6-8.G.3

Explain how humans and their environment affect one another.SS.6-8.G.4

Compare and contrast the cultural and environmental characteristics of different places or regions.SS.6-8.G.5

Evaluate how cultural and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.SS.6-8.G.6

Explain how environmental characteristics affect human migration and settlement.SS.6-8.G.7

Explain how changes in transportation and communication influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the spread of ideas and culture.SS.6-8.G.8

Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.SS.6-8.G.9

Identify how cultural and environmental characteristics vary among regions of the world.SS.6-8.G.10

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use.SS.6-8.G.11

Analyze how the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influence patterns of world trade.SS.6-8.G.12

Identify and describe the contexts of a series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity based on the perspectives of multiple diverse groups.SS.6-8.H.1.LC

Analyze connections and disconnections among events and developments in broader historical contexts and identify the effects of events on groups of people who have been marginalized.SS.6-8.H.1.MdC

Evaluate the significance of historical events to multiple groups and the relationship to modern-day movements and events.SS.6-8.H.1.MC

Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.SS.6-8.H.2.LC

Analyze and compare multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of multiple groups of people during different historical eras relevant to the cultural groups.SS.6-8.H.2.MdC

Evaluate how perspectives of multiple individuals and groups have impacted the availability of information and the creation of historical sources.SS.6-8.H.2.MC

Classify the kinds of historical sources used in a secondary interpretation to include sources representing multiple perspectives.SS.6-8.H.3.LC

Detect possible biases and limitations in the historical record based on evidence collected from different kinds of historical sources by identifying the author, purpose, funding/source, type of publication/outlet, intended audience, etc.SS.6-8.H.3.MdC

Evaluate the validity of claims made in historical sources representing a variety of perspectives, describe the possible or actual impact(s) of the sources on audiences, and determine uses and applications.SS.6-8.H.3.MC

Describe the differences between correlation and causation in historical events and explain multiple causes and effects of historical events.SS.6-8.H.4.LC

Compare and contrast the central historical arguments in secondary works across multiple media.SS.6-8.H.4.MdC

Organize and critique applicable evidence to develop a coherent argument about the past.SS.6-8.H.4.MC