Grade 8 World History I
Unit 4: Benchmarks and Standards
Unit 4: Benchmarks and Standards
Middle & High School Social Studies, Grade 8 , 4.0 Economics
(Production, Distribution, and Consumption)
Understands fundamental economic principles and ways in which economies are shaped by geographic and human factors
SS8.4.1 Analyzes ways in which trade has contributed to economic change in selected societies or civilizations
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Trade and Towns Grow
CA: CCCS: Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects 6-12, Grades 6-8, History/Social Studies
Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
3. Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
8. Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
9. Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.
CA: History - Social Science, CA: Grade 8, Hist. & Social Sci. Analysis Skills
Chronological and Spatial Thinking
1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
2. Students construct various time lines of key events, people, and periods of the historical era they are studying.
3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
Research, Evidence, and Point of View
1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
2. Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.
3. Students distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and verifiable from unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories.
4. Students assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources and draw sound con-clusions from them.
5. Students detect the different historical points of view on historical events and determine the context in which the historical statements were made (the questions asked, sources used, author's perspectives).
Historical Interpretation
1. Students explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
6. Students interpret basic indicators of economic performance and conduct cost-benefit analyses of economic and political issues.
AERO: Social Studies (2012), AERO: Grade 8/19th Century, Time, Continuity, and Change
Standard 1: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships.
1.8.d Utilize primary and secondary sources in historical research.
1.8.e Examine historical resources for a point of view, context, bias (including gender and race), distortion, or propaganda.
1.8.f Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.
1.8.g Analyze multiple interpretations of an historical or current event.
1.8.h Analyze quantitative data to answer questions about history.
(Production, Distribution, and Consumption)
Understands fundamental economic principles and ways in which economies are shaped by geographic and human factors
SS8.4.1 Analyzes ways in which trade has contributed to economic change in selected societies or civilizations
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Trade and Towns Grow
CA: CCCS: Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects 6-12, Grades 6-8, History/Social Studies
Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
3. Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
8. Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
9. Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.
CA: History - Social Science, CA: Grade 8, Hist. & Social Sci. Analysis Skills
Chronological and Spatial Thinking
1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
2. Students construct various time lines of key events, people, and periods of the historical era they are studying.
3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
Research, Evidence, and Point of View
1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
2. Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.
3. Students distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and verifiable from unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories.
4. Students assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources and draw sound con-clusions from them.
5. Students detect the different historical points of view on historical events and determine the context in which the historical statements were made (the questions asked, sources used, author's perspectives).
Historical Interpretation
1. Students explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
6. Students interpret basic indicators of economic performance and conduct cost-benefit analyses of economic and political issues.
AERO: Social Studies (2012), AERO: Grade 8/19th Century, Time, Continuity, and Change
Standard 1: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships.
1.8.d Utilize primary and secondary sources in historical research.
1.8.e Examine historical resources for a point of view, context, bias (including gender and race), distortion, or propaganda.
1.8.f Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.
1.8.g Analyze multiple interpretations of an historical or current event.
1.8.h Analyze quantitative data to answer questions about history.