History-7th 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)

Place events from a chronology on multiple tier timelines that are organized according to political, economic, environmental, and social history.

Organize a series of related historical events for depiction on a periodization chart.

Describe life during a specific period using multiple tier timelines, periodization charts, graphs, and charts with data organized by category.

Provide an example of two different interpretations of a significant event.

Explain how a significant historical event can have many causes.

Tell how and why a significant historical event impacts the life and dignity of people. 

Compare the growth of government throughout history.

Compare and contrast the contributions of individuals or political groups who had a significant impact on local, U.S. and/or world history.

United States: Explain the growth of democracy in the United States as reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

United States: Describe significant events that fostered the development of representative democracy after the adoption of the United States Constitution (e.g., amendments, Supreme Court rulings, legislation).

United States: Research decisions made by the Supreme Court regarding individual rights and compare to the beliefs of the Catholic Church. 

World: Describe political beliefs of significant individuals and groups during a turning point in history.

World: Compare/contrast the development of the political ideology of significant individuals from a Western civilization with that of a non-Western civilization.

World: Define the concept of Feudalism. 

Identify major periods in economic history.

Relate how religion affected economics during a major period in history.

Evaluate the impact of the economic aspects of the voyage of Columbus on the social, political, and environmental conditions.

United States : Describe how changes in economic activity during an earlier period influenced subsequent historical events (e.g., increase in the labor supply and unionization depression and the New Deal).

World: Compare/contrast the economic systems and institutions of an agricultural and an industrial society.

Identify the main periods in social history.

Describe the significance of social factors such as status, role, customs, traditions, norms, and values during a turning point in social history.

Explain why people migrate.

Compare/contrast the institution of slavery in different societies past and present.

United States: Explain how various interest groups bring about change (e.g., workers, business persons, politicians). 

United States: Analyze the significance of cultural and religious diversity in the social history of the United States.

World: Explain the significance of changes in the role of men, women, and children from one period to subsequent periods in world social history.

Identify the major periods in environmental history.

Identify watershed events in the environmental history.

Describe the development of transportation and communication networks.

Explain how the environment affected economic and social developments of a specific cultural group after 1500.

Explain how the environment, economy, and society can be affected by the dependence of a region on a single crop or mode of production.

Tell how, as stewards of God’s creation, they can make environmental improvements.

United States: Explain how the environment affected economic and social developments of people in a specific region (e.g., Jamestown, “Wild West,” natural disasters).

World: Explain how the environment affected economic and social developments in a specific civilization (e.g., Greeks and the Aegean Sea, Middle East and oil).