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1.01
I can assess the impact of
geography on early exploration
and settlement of NC/US
E
Flora
Anthropologist
Climate
Vicinity
Drought
Barrier islands
Backcountry
Cash crop
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Identify and label
the 3 regions of
NC.
Identify and label
the 50 US states.
Identify and label
the 100 counties in
NC.
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Explain the impact
of topography on
NC/US.
Discuss factors that
influence NC/US
climate.
Describe NC/US
soil, rocks and
minerals, plants
and wildlife, and
water resources.
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I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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1.02
I can analyze the impact of
Native American on NC/US
colonization
E
Agrarian Society
Nomad People
Matrilineal family
Artifact
Culture
Slash-and-burn
Oral history
Clan
Anthropologist
Corduroy road
Bering Strait
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Identify the 5
largest Native
American groups
living in NC in
1492.
Evaluate the
relationships
between Native
Americans and
explorers.
Identify how
Native Americans
lived in the Pacific
Northwest, desert
Southwest, Great
Plains, and Eastern
Woodlands.
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1.03
1.04
1.05
I can compile the political and
religious motives for European
exploration
I can verify the impact of the
Columbian Exchange
I can connect the factors that
led to founding and settlement
of the American colonies
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
E
Puritanism
Protestant Reformation
Ethical System
Charter Document
Conquistadors
Treaty of Tordesillas
Giovanni da Verrazanno
Lucan Vasquez de
Ayllon
Amerigo Vespucci
Catholicism
Loot
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Juan Ponce de Leon
E
E
I – Important
Patriarchal Society
Foreign Market
Domestic Crop
Cultural Exchange
Smallpox
Measles
immunity
Natural Resources
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss early
Spanish
colonization of the
Americas.
Analyze the search
for a northwest
passage by
France and
England.
Examine early
exploration of and
attempts to settle in
southeastern US,
including NC.
Evaluate the
positive and
negative effects of
the Columbian
Exchange.
Describe Spanish
colonization of the
New World.
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1.06
I can summarize geographic
and political reasons for the
creation of NC/US as a colony.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
E
I – Important
Economic Power
Colonization
Geographic region
Outer banks
Coastal plain
Tidewater
Piedmont
Sun Belt
Sandbank
Richard Grenville
Sir Walter Raleigh
John White
Croatoan
Ralph Lane
Lost Colony
Francis Drake
Colony
Charter
Manteo
Wanchese
Speculation
Desolate
Joint-stock company
Naval stores
Quitrent
Prerogative party
Popular party
Culpeper’s Rebellion
Dissenter
Cary’s Rebellion
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss the first
English exploration
of present-day NC.
Trace the
beginnings of the
John White colony
and examine
possible reasons for
its disappearance.
Identify the
difficulties early
Jamestown
colonists faced and
how they were
overcome
Examine the
founding and
development of
Plymouth and
Massachusetts Bay.
Illustrate the
diverse populations
and healthy
economies of the
Middle Colonies.
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1.07
I can organize roles and
contributions of the diverse
groups in colonial NC/US
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
E
I – Important
Reasoning Targets
Approbation
Faction
Wrangle
Sectionalism
Granville District
Quorum
Extortion
Poll tax
Battle of Alamance
Jamestown
Describe the
economies of the
Southern Colonies.
Emigration
Indentured servant
Separatist
Pilgrim
Mayflower Compact
Plantation
Intolerant
Quaker
William Penn
Highland Scots
Gabriel Johnston
Pennsylvania Dutch
Gentry
Planter
Militia
Arthur Dobbs
William Tryon
Regulator
Pirates
Examine the early
settlement and
government of
Carolina under the
Lords Proprietor.
N – Nice to Know
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss the wide
variety of goods
North Carolina
produced for trade.
Examine why
Maryland was
founded and why
Carolina was split
into North Carolina
and South Carolina.
Describe the early
history of Georgia
and the plantations
of Maryland and
Virginia.
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Edward Teach
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Identify the diverse
groups in North
Carolina in the
1700s, including
European
immigrants,
enslaved Africans,
and Native
Americans.
Examine
differences
between social
classes in NC/US.
Describe the
cultural differences
and trace how those
differences erupted
into armed conflict.
.
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N – Nice to Know
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2.01
2.02
I can elaborate on the events
leading up to the Revolutionary
War.
I can judge the contributions of
key personalities and their
influence on the Revolutionary
War
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
E
E
I – Important
Protective Tariff
Dissent
British Rule
Veto
French and Indian War
Albany Plan of Union
Proclamation for 1763
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Treason
Townshend Acts
boycott
Magna Carta
Minuteman
Loyalist
Patriot
Continental Congress
Hessian
Nathaniel Greene
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Describe the
conflict in North
between the
governors and the
Assembly.
Trace the progress
of the French and
Indian War and its
results.
Trace events
leading to General
Braddock’s defeat
in 1755.
Describe the
contributions of
key personalities
and assess their
influence on the
outcome of the war.
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2.03
I can rate the role of NC/US in
the Revolutionary War
E
2.04
I can determine the victories,
failures, and issues of the
colonists and British
E
2.05
I can editorialize the impact of
documents on the formation of
NC/US state and national
governments
E
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
Antagonism
Extortion
Poll tax
Regulators
Battle of Alamance
Tyranny
Yorktown
Framers
Democracy
Capitalist Economy
Capitalism
Articles of
Confederation
Great Compromise
Federalist
Bill of Rights
Mecklenburg Resolves
Halifax Resolves
Declaration of
Independence
Bill of Rights
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Describe how the
war was fought at
sea.
Summarize the
spread of the war
to the North, the
West, and the
South.
Describe the
Battles of
Yorktown and
analyze how
Americans were
able to win the
war.
Describe how
England’s new
colonial policy
pushes toward
revolution.
Trace the reasons
why colonists
declared
independence
from Britain.
Analyze how the
Constitution
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Electoral College
Unalienable Rights
Separation of Power
addressed the
weaknesses of
the Articles of
Confederation by
creating a strong
national
government with
three branches.
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Describe debates
over the
Constitution’s
ratification and
how the new
government
functioned.
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I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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3.01
I can analyze the significance of
the causes of secession
I
individualism
3.02
I can investigate the decline and
implications of future
developments during the
early1800s
I
Legislature
Mormons
Joseph Smith
Homestead Act
3.03
I can measure the impact and
effectiveness of individual
reformers
I
racism
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Describe the causes
of the War of 1812.
Analyze the impact
of the War of 1812
on NC and the
nation.
Describe the
attitudes, economic
system, and
inequalities that
kept NC/US from
making progress.
Examine why
Archibald Murphy
failed in his fight
for educational,
economic, and
political reforms.
.
E- Essential
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I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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3.04
I can explain the development
of the institutions of slavery and
its impact
I
Industrialization
Manhood suffrage
Abolition
Fugitive slave law
3.05
I can compare and contrast
different perspectives on the
national policy of Removal and
Resettlement of American
Indian Populations
I
Andrew Jackson
Westward Expansion
3.06
I can evaluate the implications
of the NC/US Gold Rush
I
Lodes
Boomtowns
Sutter’s Mill
Forty-niner
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Describe the
development of the
institution of
slavery in NC/US
and assess its
impact on the
economic, social,
and political
conditions.
Trace the
movement of
Native Americans
through out NC/US
as a result of the
Native American
Removal Act.
Examine the
geographic,
economic and
social implications
of the North
Carolina Gold Rush
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3.07
I can explain the reasons for the
creation of a new state
constitution in 1835
I
constitution
constitutional convention
Amendments
Citizenship
Elector
House of Representative
Senate
Congress
Preamble
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
Limited government
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Analyze the
political reforms of
the Constitutional
Convention of
1835.
Describe the impact
of the new State
Constitution in
1835 on religious
groups, African
Americans, and
American Indians.
Federalism
Electoral College
Ratification
Civil Rights
3.08
I can appraise the impact of
National events
I
Checks and Balances
Louisiana Purchase
republic
Trace the events
leading to the
purchase of the
Louisiana Territory
and its subsequent
exploration.
Examine the causes
and the effects of
the War of 1812.
Analyze the results
of the decline of the
E- Essential
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Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Whigs and the rise
of the Democrats,
including manhood
suffrage and public
school
improvements.
Trace the
development of
railroads, the
emergence of
public schools, and
the building of
institutions for the
poor, mentally ill,
and physicallychallenged people
in the state.
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I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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4.01
I can analyze the significance of
the causes of secession.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
E
I – Important
Secession
Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise
Underground railroad
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Confederate States of
America
Fort Sumter
Cotton Farming
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Abolition
Temperance
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
How issues of
sectionalism lead to
the Civil War.
To what extent did
differing opinions
on slavery and its
expansion became
a factor in the Civil
War.
Use supporting
details to show that
states’ rights were a
fundamental reason
for the outbreak of
the Civil War.
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4.02
I can appraise the military
developments of the Civil War.
I
Robert E. Lee
Clara Barton
Anaconda Plan
1st Battle of Manassas
Battle of Antietam
Emancipation
Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Compare and
contrast southern
military strategies
from the beginning
of the Civil War to
the end.
Defend the idea
that Northern
manufacturing
supremacy played a
vital role in their
victory in the Civil
War.
Name at least 2
advantages each
side had when the
Civil War started.
4.03
I can assess North
Carolina’s/US role in the Civil
War.
E
succession
Determine 3 ways
the Anaconda Plan
affected NC/US.
Support why the
people of North
Carolina delayed
leaving the Union.
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I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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4.04
4.05
I can evaluate the roles of
individuals during
Reconstruction.
I can analyze and identify the
reasons why Reconstruction
came to an end.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
James K. Polk
David Walker
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
David Webster
13th Amendment
E
E
Reconstruction
Black codes
Freedman’s Bureau
15th amendment
Carpetbagger
Civil Rights Act of 1871
Kirk-Holden War
Rutherford B. Hayes
Military Occupation of
the C.S.A.
Republicans
I – Important
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Evaluate the
political positions
of the Radical
Republicans during
the Reconstruction
Era.
Determine 2
examples as to why
Andrew Johnson
was impeached.
Give 3 examples of
factors that
contributed to the
end of
Reconstruction.
Give examples of
Lincoln’s plans for
Reconstruction.
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5.01
I can interpret the importance of
agriculture, textiles, tobacco,
and furniture industries in
North Carolina/US.
E
George A. Gray
Trust
Tenant Farming
Leonides Polk
Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Use supporting
details to show the
importance of the
tobacco industry on
NC/US economy.
Describe the
building of the first
transcontinental
railroad.
5.02
I can explain the impact of
education and religion in the
state from 1870-1930.
E
Charles B Aycock
Segregation
5.03
I can defend the impact of
migration on North
Carolina/US.
I
Westward expansion
Wilmington Race Riot
Jim Crowe Laws
Literacy Tests
Poll Tax
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
N – Nice to Know
Distinguish
between why city
schools made more
progress than rural
schools.
Hypothesize 2
primary reasons
for the outward
migration of
African Americans
from North
Carolina to the
North.
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5.04
I can evaluate the influence of
technology on life in North
Carolina/US.
I
5.05
I can assess the influence of the
political, legal and social
movements.
I
5.06
I can describe NC reaction and
involvement in WWI / NC role
in the world
N
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
Industrial Revolution
Homestead Act
Monopoly
Urbanization
Populism
Progressivism
Capitalist Economy
Sherman Antitrust Act
Tenant Farming
Prohibition
Charles Lindbergh
Political polarization
Populist Party
Fusion Alliance
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Give examples of
technological
innovations that
influenced the
lives of citizens in
North Carolina/US
postReconstruction.
Compare and
contrast the
Republican and
Democratic
parties’ platforms
postReconstruction.
Spanish American
Economic
WWI
Textiles
N – Nice to Know
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6.01
6.02
I can point out the effects of the
Great Depression and the New
Deal.
I can appreciate the significance
of WWII.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
E
I
I – Important
Depression
International
Imperialism
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Zimmerman Telegram
Communism
Civil Rights
Credit
Herbert Hoover
Buying on Margin
Great Depression
Hooverville
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
New Deal
Social Security Act
Fireside Chats
Political Alliance
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
D-Day
Holocaust
Battle of Midway
Hiroshima
Interment Camp
Holocaust
Pearl Harbor
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss FDR’s
election, New
Deal Programs,
and American’s
responses to the
New Deal.
Trace events
leading to the
Great
Depression.
Compare and
Contrast the Axis
vs. Allied Powers
Discuss the war in
Europe and the
Pacific, the US
entry into the War,
Germany and
Japan’s defeat, and
the horrors for the
Holocaust.
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6.03
I can correlate key ideas and
individuals with WWII.
E
Isolationism
Fascism
Adolf Hitler
Nisei
United Nations
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Examine the
aggressive actions
of totalitarian
states.
Trace events in
1938 and 1939 that
lead to the
outbreak of WWII.
6.04
7.01
I can debate the impact of
WWII on different groups.
N
Nisei
Internment Camps
McCarthyism
Containment
I can document economic
changes.
N
Cooperative
North Carolina Fund
Identify how
different social
groups were
effected by World
War II in the
US/NC
Identify new
industries,
changing
workforce patterns,
consumerism, and
population changes
in NC/US after
WWII.
Examine economic
and population
growth in NC/US
after WWII.
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I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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7.02
I can evaluate the importance of
social changes.
N
Suburb
Refugee
Segregation
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Hippies
Brown vs. Board of
Education
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Examine the
importance of
social changes to
different groups in
NC/US.
Trace the early
civil rights
movement.
Identify key
legislative victories
for the civil rights
movement.
7.03
I can assess the influence of
technology on daily life.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
N
I – Important
Acid Rain
Tenant Farmer
Sharecropping
N – Nice to Know
Identify new
industries,
changing
workforce patterns,
consumerism, and
population changes
in NC/US after
WWII.
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7.04
I can compare political issues of
the post WWII era.
E
Brown vs. Board of
Education
Pearsall Plan
Busing
Cold War
Containment
Domino Theory
Tet offensive
Vietnamization
War Powers Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ronald Reagan
Glasnost
Communist
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss how the
lives of African
Americans,
women, and Native
Americans in North
Carolina changed
as a result of civil
rights struggles.
Discuss the policy
of containment that
lead to US
involvement in the
Korean War.
Trace escalating
US involvement in
Vietnam and
conditions of the
war.
Describe changes
in NC/US
government after
WWII.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
N – Nice to Know
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7.05
8.01
I can select major events and
changes that have affected
government.
I can describe and analyze the
changing demographics in
North Carolina/US.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
N
I
I – Important
9/11
War on Terror
Iraq War
Title IX
Demographer
Natural Increase
Revival
Nativism
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss the
breakup of the
Soviet Union and
continuing
Communist rule in
China.
Examine the social
and political
effects of the
Vietnam War in
the US and the
devastation of
Vietnam.
Examine the social
an political effects
of the Vietnam
War in the US/NC
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E, M, I,
Learning Target
(NCSCOS)
N
* Italicized text indicates related objectives that deal with these targets.
8.02
I can illustrate economic and
technological advances.
I
Biotechnology
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Discuss the
assessment of NC
needs undertaken
by the Commission
on the
Future of NC.
Examine economic
challenges for
NC/US agriculture
and manufacturing.
Describe new hightech industries in
North Carolina.
8.03
I can point out the impact of
political issues.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I
I – Important
Incumbent
Delegation
Camp David Accords
Terrorism
Employee
Wage Salary
NAACP
Hazelwood School
District vs. Kuhlmeier
N – Nice to Know
Describe
contemporary
political,
economic, and
social issues at the
state and local
levels and evaluate
their impact on the
community.
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Grade 8 – Social Studies
Top 10
EC
Priority
Knowledge Targets
ISS Student Friendly
E, M, I,
Learning Target
(NCSCOS)
N
* Italicized text indicates related objectives that deal with these targets.
8.04
I can summarize the importance
of regional diversity.
I
Demographers
Natural Increase
9.01
I can prioritize issues and their
impact on the community.
I
Gross State Product
Legislator
Private Sector
September 11, 2001
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Describe
consequences of
rapid population
growth as well as
the state’s rich
traditions.
Trace economic
and environmental
challenges in
NC/US.
Examine conflicts
in the Middle East,
the terrorist attacks
of September 11,
2001, and the
nation’s response.
9.02
I can identify leaders and their
influence.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I
I – Important
Globalization
NAFTA
National Guard
Bill Clinton
N – Nice to Know
US Presidents
NC Governors
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Grade 8 – Social Studies
Top 10
EC
Priority
Knowledge Targets
ISS Student Friendly
E, M, I,
Learning Target
(NCSCOS)
N
* Italicized text indicates related objectives that deal with these targets.
9.03
I can appreciate opportunities
for and benefits of civic
participation.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I
I – Important
Civic Responsibility
Recall
Vote
Census
Civil Liberties
Tolerance
National Guard
Volunteerism
Patriotism
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
Identify
community service
opportunities.
Describe roles of a
US/NC citizen.
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Grade 8 – Social Studies
Top 10
EC
Priority
Knowledge Targets
ISS Student Friendly
E, M, I,
Learning Target
(NCSCOS)
N
* Italicized text indicates related objectives that deal with these targets.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
06/09
ISS Curriculum Guide
Grade 8 – Social Studies
Top 10
EC
Priority
Knowledge Targets
ISS Student Friendly
E, M, I,
Learning Target
(NCSCOS)
N
* Italicized text indicates related objectives that deal with these targets.
E- Essential
M – Maintenance
I – Important
N – Nice to Know
Reasoning Targets
Performance/ Skill
Targets
Product Targets
06/09