| Galena City School District | ||
| Standards and Skills | ||
| SS.08 | Social Studies - Grade 8 | |
| SS.08.01 | analyze and define democracy. | |
| SS.08.01.01 | - define democracy. | |
| SS.08.01.02 | - define republic. | |
| SS.08.01.03 | - recall that the United States was founded as a republic. | |
| SS.08.01.04 | - define representative form of government. | |
| SS.08.01.05 | - compare democracy to fascism. | |
| SS.08.01.06 | - compare democracy to communism. | |
| SS.08.01.07 | - compare democracy to dictatorship. | |
| SS.08.01.08 | - compare democracy to monarchy. | |
| SS.08.02 | list and explain ways in which orderly change of law can occur in the US. | |
| SS.08.02.01 | - outline the process of constitutional amendment. | |
| SS.08.02.02 | - define and identify example of executive order. | |
| SS.08.02.03 | - define and identify example of referendum. | |
| SS.08.02.04 | - define and identify example of election. | |
| SS.08.02.05 | - define and identify example of constitutional amendment. | |
| SS.08.03 | identify and explain the American Documents of Freedom. | |
| SS.08.03.01 | - list and describe the Documents of Freedom. | |
| SS.08.03.02 | - identify and explain quoted sentences from the Declaration of Independence. | |
| SS.08.03.03 | - identify and explain significant phrases of the Constitution. | |
| SS.08.03.04 | - identify and explain significant phrases of Amendments to the Constitution. | |
| SS.08.03.05 | - identify and explain significant phrases of the Bill of Rights. | |
| SS.08.03.06 | - match names, purpose, and key ideas of the Documents of Freedom. | |
| SS.08.04 | apply the Bill of Rights to everyday life. | |
| SS.08.04.01 | - list and define the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. | |
| SS.08.04.02 | - identify examples of the exercise of specific rights in everyday life. | |
| SS.08.05 | use primary evidence of culture to learn about lifeways of different societies. | |
| SS.08.05.01 | - identify examples of primary evidence such as hunting tools, farming tools, songs, poetry. | |
| SS.08.05.02 | - draw conclusions from primary evidence about lifeways of a group. | |
| SS.08.05.03 | - infer from primary evidence how different cultures utilize resources in different ways. | |
| SS.08.05.04 | - infer from primary evidence how different cultures utilize their environment in different ways. | |
| SS.08.06 | apply information skills to investigate economics. | |
| SS.08.06.01 | - identify primary documents (diaries, poems, advertisements, or election posters). | |
| SS.08.06.02 | - infer information about the economy of historical periods or regions from primary documents. | |
| SS.08.06.03 | - analyze the slope of line graphs to evaluate employment, sales, wage, price trends. | |
| SS.08.06.04 | - compare export-import rates of countries. | |
| SS.08.06.05 | - interpret multi-year bar graphs to evaluate economic trends in sales, prices, etc. | |
| SS.08.07 | apply concepts of Production/Distribution/Consumption. | |
| SS.08.07.01 | - predict the effect on communities of increase/decrease in stores, factories, banks, highways. | |
| SS.08.07.02 | - compare the impact on a country's economy of export of raw or value added products. | |
| SS.08.07.03 | - define and identify examples of raw materials export products (oil, cotton, bananas). | |
| SS.08.07.04 | - define and identify examples of value added (manufactured) exports (computers, clothing). | |
| SS.08.08 | define and describe the Industrial Revolution. | |
| SS.08.08.01 | - tell how the Industrial Revolution changed life in the United States. | |
| SS.08.08.02 | - place the Industrial Revolution on a time line. | |
| SS.08.09 | analyze the impact of 19th century inventions on life in the United States. | |
| SS.08.09.01 | - describe and tell the impact of the spinning jenny. | |
| SS.08.09.02 | - describe and tell the impact of the telegraph. | |
| SS.08.09.03 | - describe and tell the impact of the bicycle. | |
| SS.08.09.04 | - describe and tell the impact of the automobile. | |
| SS.08.09.05 | - analyze the impact of the railroad on the westward movement. | |
| SS.08.09.06 | - tell how different inventions changed the way people lived their everyday lives. | |
| SS.08.09.07 | - tell how different inventions changed the economy of the 19th and early 20th centuries. | |
| SS.08.10 | apply basic geographic facts. | |
| SS.08.10.01 | - define and identify examples of geographic terms for land forms and political units. | |
| SS.08.10.02 | - identify the continent location of major countries. | |
| SS.08.10.03 | - identify the country of large cities. | |
| SS.08.10.04 | - identify the regional location of major U.S. cities. | |
| SS.08.10.05 | - identify and locate the island nations of the world. | |
| SS.08.10.06 | - identify and label the location of major oceans, seas, and rivers. | |
| SS.08.10.07 | - name and locate the countries touched by the world's largest rivers. | |
| SS.08.11 | apply information skills to investigate geography. | |
| SS.08.11.01 | - interpret geographical information from political cartoons and posters. | |
| SS.08.11.02 | - synthesize information from maps, journals, diaries, letters, and calendars. | |
| SS.08.11.03 | - infer information from topographical, product, and historical maps. | |
| SS.08.12 | describe, define, and compare the regions of the United States. | |
| SS.08.12.01 | - identify and locate regions of the United States. | |
| SS.08.12.02 | - identify the states within each region. | |
| SS.08.12.03 | - identify contiguous states. | |
| SS.08.12.04 | - list and describe historical events important to each region (gold rush, Civil War battles, etc.). | |
| SS.08.12.05 | - describe primary products and industries of regions. | |
| SS.08.13 | analyze the interaction of environment and the Westward Movement of the US. | |
| SS.08.13.01 | - tell how the westward movement changed the environment of the West. | |
| SS.08.13.02 | - tell how the environment of the West impacted the westward movement. | |
| SS.08.14 | analyze human/environmental interaction. | |
| SS.08.14.01 | - identify the primary causes of environment change and degradation. | |
| SS.08.14.02 | - identify examples of how humans have changed the environment. | |
| SS.08.14.03 | - identify potential remedies for environmental damage. | |
| SS.08.14.04 | - define landfill. | |
| SS.08.14.05 | - define recycling. | |
| SS.08.14.06 | - define alternative energy sources. | |
| SS.08.14.07 | - define wind farms. | |
| SS.08.14.08 | - define renewable resources. | |
| SS.08.14.09 | - define natural resources. | |
| SS.08.14.10 | - define conservation. | |
| SS.08.15 | apply information skills to historical investigation. | |
| SS.08.15.01 | - synthesize information from maps, graphs, symbols, narrative, and poetry. | |
| SS.08.15.02 | - infer information from primary sources. | |
| SS.08.15.03 | - identify authorial point of view. | |
| SS.08.15.04 | - evaluate authorial point of view in historical primary documents. | |
| SS.08.16 | identify major events, people, and documents of the American Revolution. | |
| SS.08.16.01 | - identify the Stamp Act. | |
| SS.08.16.02 | - identify the Boston Tea Party. | |
| SS.08.16.03 | - name, locate, describe, tell founder, and purpose of each of the original thirteen colonies. | |
| SS.08.16.04 | - identify Paul Revere. | |
| SS.08.16.05 | - identify major revolutionary Patriots and the contributions of each. | |
| SS.08.16.06 | - list Documents of Freedom. | |
| SS.08.17 | identify major events and people of American History. | |
| SS.08.17.01 | - describe and identify the Age of Exploration and Explorers of the New World. | |
| SS.08.17.02 | - identify the Colonial Period. | |
| SS.08.17.03 | - identify the Revolution. | |
| SS.08.17.04 | - identify the Civil War. | |
| SS.08.17.05 | - identify the Gilded Age. | |
| SS.08.17.06 | - identify World War I and II. | |
| SS.08.18 | trace how American life has changed from Colonial times to the present. | |
| SS.08.18.01 | - identify examples of lifestyle changes in transportation, clothing, tools. | |
| SS.08.19 | trace the development of civil rights for African Americans. | |
| SS.08.19.01 | - identify the accomplishments of Martin Luther King. | |
| SS.08.19.02 | - define abolition. | |
| SS.08.19.03 | - define Underground Railroad. | |
| SS.08.19.04 | - define the Emancipation Proclamation. | |
| SS.08.19.05 | - define Jim Crow. | |
| SS.08.19.06 | - define the Civil Rights Amendment. | |
| SS.08.19.07 | - identify the Dred Scott Decision. | |
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