Theme - Simeon Career Academy



Theme

1 |Weeks 21-25 |Essential Questions |Subject: African American History |Skills |Standards | |

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| | |Core |Choice | |CRS |ILS | |The Struggle Continues |

How did Ronald Reagan and Bush try to dismantle the “Great Society” and undermine social welfare programs?

What are the “Old” and “New” civil rights?

How did Jesse Jackson rise within the Democratic Party?

What is police profiling and how did it affect African Americans?

Why were African Americans so supportive of Bill Clinton’s presidency and attached to the Democratic Party?

How did George W. Bush win the presidential election in 2000?

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Black Politics

The Conservative Reaction

Civil Rights

Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition

Policing the Black Community

The Clinton Years

The Bush Years |

What role did conservatives play in the Republican Party in the 1980s and 1990s?

What were the focal points of black activism during the Reagan and Bush years?

How did general white perceptions of young black men shape trends in criminal justice in the 1990s?

What was the Rodney King episode and why was it important?

What were the key issues in the election in 2004? |Identify the historical forces of continuity and change that affected the development of social institutions over time.

Analyze the origins and development of the social issues that affect United States citizens as members of a global society.

Describe how an individual can work with others to make a change in official social policy.

Describe the position of William Lloyd Garrison and the “Old Organization” in the 1840’s.

• Social Studies map skills

• problem/solution

• cause /effect

• notetaking

• outlining

• summarization

• compare/contrast

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MID: 24-27

Understand the overall approach taken by an author or narrator in more challenging passages

Summarize basic events and ideas in more challenging passages

CER: 24-27

Order sequences of events in uncomplicated passages

Identify relationships between main characters

Understand relationships between people, ideas, and so on

Understand implied or subtly stated cause-effect relationships |

16.D.4a (US) Describe the immediate and long-range social impacts of slavery.

17.A.4a Use mental maps of physical features to answer complex geographic questions (e.g., how physical features have deterred or enabled migration).

18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).

18.B.5 Use methods of social science inquiry (pose questions, collect and analyze data, make and support conclusions with evidence, report findings) to study the development and functions of social systems and report conclusions to a larger audience. | |

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