History-6th 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)

Distinguish between the important and insignificant details contained in an historical source.

Organize a series of historic maps of a region or place into an historical atlas.

Place a series of events from the past that are listed on a chronology or timeline and categorize them according to political, economic, environmental, or social importance, including religious events.

Identify the times when significant events intersected using a series of chronologies organized into political, economic, environmental, and social history.

Compare two different interpretations of an historical figure or event.

Compare two different interpretations of a religious event that shaped history.

Compare the account of an historic person or event in a textbook with an account of the person or event in another secondary source.

Locate on the World Wide Web multiple sources pertaining to a significant historic person or event.

Compare the value of primary and secondary sources.

Identify and explain important periods in history.

Describe how individuals and events have shaped political systems.

Explain how religion has shaped political systems.

United States: Explain growth of U.S. politics and political parties.

United States: Interpret the actions and consequences of a significant figure in United States political history (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt).

World: Describe the impact that significant individuals or groups in the nonWestern world had on political events (e.g., Mao, Gandhi, freedom fighters).

World: Compare/contrast the development of a political system and/or institution in ancient times with that of another political system and/or institution of ancient times (e.g., Greek and Roman government, Greek and Egyptian).

Describe the growth of modern economic systems.

Identify important inventions and inventors.

Explain how significant economic systems in the past have altered individual choices and influenced history.

Explain how significant religious ideas of the past altered choices and influenced history.

United States : Summarize the impact of significant economic events of earlier periods of United States history on contemporary economic structure.

United States : Predict how technological advances may affect the United States economic system.

World: Define capitalism, socialism, and communism as economic systems.

World: Research the Church’s responses to past inventors and economic systems.

Identify important events/turning points in social history.

Identify important Church events that influenced social justice beliefs.

Analyze the issues of social status and social role in the past and present.

Describe social changes that resulted from cultural exchange between and among different peoples/societies.

United States: Describe the differences in families between different cultures; between families of different faiths.

World: Compare/contrast the social structure of Western and non-Western cultures today and in the past.

Organize a series of environmental events in history.

Describe how the environment affects people’s lives from past to present. 

Assess the effects of a significant invention or technological innovation on the physical and cultural environment of a place or region.

Describe how the competition between or among different groups of people for the same land affected the environment.

Describe how Church doctrine impacts environmental issues.

United States: Describe how the people of a specific region of the United States gained control over rivers or other principal physical features of their environment.

World: Describe how the people of a specific civilization gained control over rivers or other principal physical features.