HISTORY

A student who meets the content standard should:

1. understand chronological frameworks for organizing historical thought and place significant ideas, institutions, people, and events within time sequences;
2. know that the interpretation of history may change as new evidence is discovered;
3. recognize different theories of history, detect the weakness of broad generalization, and evaluate the debates of historians;
4. understand that history relies on the interpretation of evidence;
5. understand that history is a narrative told in many voices and expresses various perspectives of historical experience;
6. know that cultural elements, including language, literature, the arts, customs, and belief systems, reflect the ideas and attitudes of a specific time and know how the cultural elements influence human interaction;
7. understand that history is dynamic and composed of key turning points;
8. know that history is a bridge to understanding groups of people and an individual's relationship to society; and
9. understand that history is a fundamental connection that unifies all fields of human understanding and endeavor.

A student who meets the content standard should:

1. comprehend the forces of change and continuity that shape human history through the following persistent organizing themes:
   1. the development of culture, the emergence of civilizations, and the accomplishments and mistakes of social organizations;
   2. human communities and their relationships with climate, subsistence base, resources, geography, and technology;
   3. the origin and impact of ideologies, religions, and institutions upon human societies;
   4. the consequences of peace and violent conflict to societies and their cultures;
   5. major developments in societies as well as changing patterns related to class, ethnicity, race, and gender;
2. understand the people and the political, geographic, economic, cultural, social, and environmental events that have shaped the history of the state, the United States, and the world;
3. recognize that historical understanding is relevant and valuable in the student's life and for participating in local, state, national, and global communities;
4. recognize the importance of time, ideas, institutions, people, places, cultures, and events in understanding large historical patterns; and
5. evaluate the influence of context upon historical understanding.

A student who meets the content standard should:

1. use appropriate technology to access, retrieve, organize, and present historical information;
2. use historical data from a variety of primary resources, including letters, diaries, oral accounts, archeological sites and artifacts, art, maps, photos, historical sites, documents, and secondary research materials, including almanacs, books, indices, and newspapers;
3. apply thinking skills, including classifying, interpreting, analyzing, summarizing, synthesizing, and evaluating, to understand the historical record; and
4. use historical perspective to solve problems, make decisions, and understand other traditions.

A student who meets the content standard should:

1. understand that the student is important in history;
2. solve problems by using history to identify issues and problems, generate potential solutions, assess the merits of options, act, and evaluate the effectiveness of actions;
3. define a personal position on issues while understanding the historical aspects of the positions and roles assumed by others;
4. recognize and demonstrate that various issues may require an understanding of different positions, jobs, and personal roles depending on place, time, and context;
5. base personal citizenship action on reasoned historical judgment with recognition of responsibility for self and others; and
6. create new approaches to issues by incorporating history with other disciplines, including economics, geography, literature, the arts, science, and technology.