NYS Social Studies Learning Standards
UNIT FOUR: THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT: RESPONSES TO THE CHALLENGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION
I. Reform in America
Theme: Diversity
Women’s rights and efforts for peace
(1) The suffrage movement (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony); Seneca Falls
(2) Beginnings of fight for birth control (Margaret Sanger)
UNIT FIVE: AT HOME AND ABROAD: PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION, 1917 - 1940
I. War and Prosperity: 1917-1929
Theme: Culture and Intellectual Life Diversity
Women’s changing roles
(1) Effect of World War I
(2) Involvement in the political process: the 19th Amendment
(3) Health and working conditions
(4) Women in the workforce
(5) Emerging role: emphasis on wife rather than mother
Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
Writing Standards- Grades 11 & 12 Students
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. Explore and inquire into areas of interest to formulate an argument.
b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
UNIT FOUR: THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT: RESPONSES TO THE CHALLENGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION
I. Reform in America
Theme: Diversity
Women’s rights and efforts for peace
(1) The suffrage movement (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony); Seneca Falls
(2) Beginnings of fight for birth control (Margaret Sanger)
UNIT FIVE: AT HOME AND ABROAD: PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION, 1917 - 1940
I. War and Prosperity: 1917-1929
Theme: Culture and Intellectual Life Diversity
Women’s changing roles
(1) Effect of World War I
(2) Involvement in the political process: the 19th Amendment
(3) Health and working conditions
(4) Women in the workforce
(5) Emerging role: emphasis on wife rather than mother
Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
Writing Standards- Grades 11 & 12 Students
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. Explore and inquire into areas of interest to formulate an argument.
b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.