History-8th 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)

Define the concept of a “watershed” event in history.

Explain why a primary source may not necessarily provide an accurate description of an historical event.

Examine the impact of any “watershed” event on the life and dignity of the human person.

Identify the point of view of the author as found in a primary source document.

Identify any inconsistencies of an author as found in a primary source document.

Assess the value of posed and candid photographs as primary sources.

What is diplomatic history? Give examples of diplomacy.

Identify important political thinkers.

United States: Evaluate the consequences of constitutional change and continuity over time.

United States: Summarize significant events that occurred during the development of the Supreme Court of the United States.

United States: Describe the contributions of individuals or groups who had a significant impact on the course of judicial history.

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

World: Analyze the political cause and effect relationships created by European exploration and expansion in the eastern and western hemispheres.

Describe how economics affect the course of history. Give examples.

Explain how changes in science and technology affected the exchange of goods and services among people of different geographical regions both past and present.

Describe the global impact of economic trends (e.g., long distance trade, banking, specialization of labor, urbanization, technological/scientific progress).

United States : Explain how entrepreneurs organized their businesses and influenced government to limit competition and maximize profits.

United States : Describe significant people, ideas, and events in the rise of organized labor from 1865-1914).

World: Analyze the impact of long-term economic trends on the political, social, economic, environmental, and religious developments of societies in different parts of the world, 1500 CE to present.

Analyze the consequences of discrimination past and present.

Analyze the impact of mass migration of people upon the political, economic, social, and environmental aspects of a U.S. and/or world region.

Assess the impact of significant individuals or groups on social history (e.g., religious leaders, philosophers). 

United States: Explain the significance of the frontier.

World: Describe how the work of artists around the world (e.g., musicians, artists, filmmakers) reflects social and religious issues of the time.

Analyze the social, political, and economic effects on the abandoned environment of a significant migration of people from one region to another.

Describe how major migrations have affected the cultural features of cities and rural communities.

Assess the effect of the industrial revolution on the physical environment.

Assess the effects on the environment of the historic process of suburbanization and rural depopulation.

Evaluate the impact of them acting as stewards of God’s creation to make environmental improvements.

United States: Describe the effects on the environment of the dispersion of European colonists in North American.

World: Describe the environmental effects of the “Colombian Exchange.”