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With Liberty & Justice for All
Related Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks

 

9th-12th Grades—Looking At Evidence and Taking Sides

Social Studies
SS.I.HS.2.3 Identify and explain how individuals in history have demonstrated good character and virtue.
SS.I.HS.3.1 Use primary sources and secondary records to analyze significant events that shaped the development of Michigan and the nation.
SS.III.HS.3.2 Explain why people may agree on democratic values in the abstract but disagree when they are applied to specific situations.
SS.V.HS.1.2 Use traditional and electronic means to organize and interpret information pertaining to a specific social science topic and prepare it for in-depth presentation.
SS.VI.HS.1.1 Generate possible alternative resolutions to public issues and evaluate them using criteria that have been identified.
SS.VI.HS.2.1 Engage each other in elaborated conversations that deeply examine public policy issues and help make reasoned and informed decisions.
SS.VII.HS.1.2 Plan and conduct activities intended to advance their views on matter of public policy, report on the results and evaluate their effectiveness.

Language Arts
ELA.HS.1.5 Respond personally, analytically and critically to a variety of oral, visual, writing and electronic text by making connections to their personal lives and lives of others providing example of how texts influence their lives and their role in society.
ELA.HS.3.7 Recognize and use varied innovative techniques to construct text, convey meaning, and express feelings to influence an audience
ELA.HS.3.8 Analyze their responses to oral, visual, written and electronic texts, providing examples o how text affect their lives, connect them with the contemporary world and transmit issues across time.
ELA.HS.10.3 Utilize the persuasive power of text as an instrument of change in their community, nation, and the world. Examples include identifying a community issue and designing an authentic project using oral, written and visual texts to promote social action.
ELA.HS.11.3 Synthesize and evaluate information to draw conclusions and implications based on their investigation of an issue or problem.

based on their investigation of an issue or problem.