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NY.9-10.RH.Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Craft and Structure
9-10.RH.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
9-10.RH.10. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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9-12.B.5. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate dynamics of historical continuity and change over periods of time and investigate factors that caused those changes over time.
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9-12.B.6. Recognize that choice of specific periodizations favors or advantages one narrative, region, or group over another narrative, region, or group.
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9-12.C. Comparison and Contextualization
9-12.C.4. Describe, compare, and evaluate multiple historical developments (within societies; across and between societies; in various chronological and geographical contexts).
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9-12.C.5. Recognize the relationship between geography, economics, and history as a context for events and movements and as a matrix of time and place.
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9-12.D. Geographic Reasoning
9-12.D.3. Identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationship between the environment and human activities, how the physical environment is modified by human activities, and how human activities are also influenced by Earth’s physical features and processes.
9-12.E.1. Use marginal benefits and marginal costs to construct an argument for or against an approach or solution to an economic issue.
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9-12.E.2. Analyze the ways in which incentives influence what is produced and distributed in a market system.
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9-12.E.6. Analyze government economic policies and the effects on the national and global economy.
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NY.9.Grade 9: Global History and Geography I
Grade 9: Global History and Geography I
9.1. The First Civilizations, ca. 10,000 B.C.E. – ca. 630 C.E. - DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION: The development of agriculture enabled the rise of the first civilizations, located primarily along river valleys; these complex societies were influenced by geograph
9.1b. Complex societies and civilizations adapted to and modified their environment to meet the needs of their population.
9.1b.1. Students will explore how the Mesopotamian, Shang, and Indus River valley civilizations adapted to and modified their environments to meet their need for food, clothing, and shelter.
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9.1c. Complex societies and civilizations shared common characteristics of religion, job specialization, cities, government, language/writing systems, technology, and social hierarchy, and they made unique contributions.
9.1c.1. Students will explore the Mesopotamian, Shang, and Indus River valley civilizations by examining archaeological and historical evidence to compare and contrast characteristics and note their unique contributions.
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9.10. Global Interactions, ca. 1400 – 1750- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE MING DYNASTY PRE-1600: INTERACTIONS AND DISRUPTIONS: Efforts to reach the Indies resulted in the encounter between the people of Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas. This encounter led
9.10d. European colonization in the Americas and trade interactions with Africa led to instability, decline, and near destruction of once-stable political and cultural systems.
9.10d.1. Students will examine the political, economic, cultural, and geographic impacts of Spanish colonization on the Aztec and Inca societies.
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9.10e. The Eastern Hemisphere trade networks were disrupted by the European development of new transoceanic trade across the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. Shifts in global trade networks and the use of gunpowder had positive and negative effects on Asian
9.10e.1. Students will explore how new transoceanic routes shifted trade networks (e.g., Indian Ocean, the Silk Road, Trans-Saharan) in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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9.2. The First Civilizations, ca. 10,000 B.C.E. – ca. 630 C.E. - BELIEF SYSTEMS: RISE AND IMPACT: The emergence and spread of belief systems influenced and shaped the development of cultures, as well as their traditions and identities. Important similarities a
9.2a. Belief systems developed beliefs and practices to address questions of origin, the requirements to live a good life, and the nature of the afterlife.
9.2a.1. Students will identify the place of origin, compare and contrast the core beliefs and practices, and explore the sacred texts and ethical codes for Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and Daoism.
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9.3. Classical Societies, 600 B.C.E. – ca. 900 C.E.- CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS: EXPANSION, ACHIEVEMENT, DECLINE: Classical civilizations in Eurasia and Mesoamerica employed a variety of methods to expand and maintain control over vast territories. They developed
9.3a. Geographic factors encouraged and hindered a state’s/empire’s expansion and interactions.
9.3a.1. Students will examine the locations and relative sizes of classical political entities (Greece, Gupta, Han, Maurya, Maya, Qin, Rome) noting the location and size of each in relation to the amount of power each held within a region.
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9.3a.2. Students will investigate how geographic factors encouraged or hindered expansion and interactions within the Greek, Roman, and Mayan civilizations
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9.3b. Empires used belief systems, systems of law, forms of government, military forces, and social hierarchies to consolidate and expand power.
9.3b.1. Students will compare and contrast how the Mauryan, Qin, and Roman civilizations consolidated and increased power.
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9.3c. A period of peace, prosperity, and cultural achievements can be designated as a Golden Age.
9.3c.1. Students will examine the achievements of Greece, Gupta, Han Dynasty, Maya, and Rome to determine if the civilizations experienced a Golden Age.
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9.3d. Political, socioeconomic, and environmental issues, external conflicts, and nomadic invasions led to the decline and fall of Classical empires.
9.3d.1. Students will compare and contrast the forces that led to the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Mayan civilization, and the Roman Empire.
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9.4. An Age of Expanding Connections, ca. 500 – ca. 1500- RISE OF TRANSREGIONAL TRADE NETWORKS: During the classical and postclassical eras, transregional trade networks emerged and/or expanded. These networks of exchange influenced the economic and political
9.4a. Afro-Eurasian transregional trade networks grew across land and bodies of water.
9.4a.1. Students will identify the location of the transregional trade networks noting regional connections between the Indian Ocean complex, Mediterranean Sea complex, Silk Roads, and Trans-Saharan routes.
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9.4c. Interregional travelers, traders, missionaries, and nomads carried products and natural resources, and brought with them enslaved people and ideas that led to cultural diffusion.
9.4c.1. Students will identify and explain the importance of at least two key resources and/or products and/or luxury items vital to exchanges along the Indian Ocean complex, Mediterranean Sea complex, Silk Roads, and Trans-Saharan routes.
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9.4c.3. Students will examine the diffusion of religious ideas along the Indian Ocean complex, Silk Roads, and Trans-Saharan routes.
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9.9. Global Interactions, ca. 1400 – 1750- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE MING DYNASTY PRE-1600: TRANSFORMATION OF WESTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA: Western Europe and Russia transformed politically, economically, and culturally ca. 1400–1750. This transformation include
9.9b. The Reformation challenged traditional religious authority, which prompted a counter reformation that led to a religiously fragmented Western Europe and political conflicts. This religious upheaval continued the marginalization of Jews in European society
9.9b.2. Students will trace the discrimination against and persecution of Jews.
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