History-5th Grade

Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other Nations. Understand religious events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of the United States, other Nations and the Church. 

Apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation. Apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation to religious events, trends and Church individuals and movements. Relate that Jesus, as God incarnate, existed in history just like we do. CSIS2 Describe how reading history is a way we can learn about what God does for humanity. CSIS3 Explore how the moral qualities of the citizenry naturally give rise to the nature of the government and influence societal outcomes and destinies. CSIS13 (7&8)

Understand the development of significant political events (United States/World). Understand the development of significant Church or religious events. Explain the history of the Catholic Church and its impact in human events. CSIS4 Exhibit knowledge of essential dates, persons, places and facts, especially those relevant to the western traditions. CSIS5 Recognize how the central themes within the stories of important Catholic figures and saints repeat over time. CSIS6

Understand the development of economic systems (United States/World). Understand how moral or religious thought contributed to the development of economic systems. Explain how one’s beliefs about God, about humanity, and about material things, affect one’s actions. CSIS7 Discuss how history can assist man in the acquisition of values and virtues. CSIS12

Understand Illinois, United States, and world social history (United States/World). Understand social history of Church, Illinois, United States, and world. Demonstrate an understanding about great figures of history by examining their lives for examples of virtue. CSGS2 Value the significance and impact of the Catholic Church throughout history. CSDS5 Examine how one’s own life and life-choices creates a personal history with eternal consequences. CSIS3 (7& 8) Analyze how God has revealed Himself throughout time and history, in the things we know best and can easily verify. CSIS4 (7&8) Demonstrate how historical events and patterns of change help us predict and plan for future events CSIS12 (7&8) Discuss thoughts and deeds of great men and women of the past. CSIS15 (7 & 8)

Understand Illinois, United States, and world environmental history (United States). Understand how Church belief regarding creation and God’s providence shape history of United States and the world. Demonstrate a general understanding of the “story” of humanity from creation to present through a Catholic concept of the world and man. CSGS1 Relate how history begins and ends in God and how history has a religious dimension. CSIS1 Evaluate how societies have been used to provide a sense of coherence and meaning to human life, shaping and forming human culture and events. CSIS9 (7&8)

Explain how life changed or stayed the same in a region or place using two historic maps that depict different times in that region or place.

Describe trends during a time period using political, economic, environmental, and social data from appropriate graphs or charts.

Distinguish between primary and secondary sources.

Formulate a research question about an historical person/event.

Identify sources in the school or local library that will help answer a research question.

Locate on the World Wide Web one source pertaining to who, when, where dimensions of a research question.

Describe how Catholic religious practices influenced the history of the United States. 

Identify individuals and turning points in political history.

Identify individuals and turning points in Church history; tell the effects of the events.

Analyze the consequences of political ideas and actions taken by significant individuals in the past.

United States: Summarize the causes and effects of ideas and actions of significant political figures during the Colonial Period.

United States: Analyze political events, figures, and ideas in the colonies that led to the American Revolution.

United States: List the key figures, events, and ideas in the development of the United States government during the Early National Period.

World: Identify significant political leaders of the non-Western world (e.g., Genghis Khan, Gandhi, Mandela).

World: Describe major leaders and/or developments in Western world.

Identify and explain important events in economic history.

Explain how economic decisions affected people’s political, social and environmental lives.

Tell how moral and ethical viewpoints can shape economic decisions.

United States : Describe the economic choices people made or were forced to make during the development of the early economy of the United States.

United States : Describe how slavery and indentured servitude were related to the wants of economic interest groups in the United States.

World: Describe the impact of trade on the development of early civilizations. 

World: Identify the differences between agricultural and industrial economies.

Use a variety of sources to describe how and why people organized colonial society. 

Discuss how the roles of men, women, and children in past cultures have changed over time.

Assess the influence that significant people had on the social lives of others in Illinois, the United States and/or world.

United States: Compare/contrast family and community life in two or more American colonies in terms of the colonists’ motives for settling there.

United States: Describe the impact of the Church on social development in the United States.

World: Describe how a cultural exchange occurred between two societies of the past.

Identify turning points in environmental history.

Describe their roles and responsibilities as stewards of God’s creation. 

Describe how various people used human or animal power to cultivate crops before the onset of mechanized technology.

Provide an example of how some people continue to depend on human or animal power to survive in their environment. 

Describe the effect of significant invention or technological innovation on the physical and cultural environment.

United States: Describe the physical and cultural features of life in pre colonial America using images or examples.

World: Identify on a map the location of the major world political powers, over time, and explain how their location fostered their growth and development.