Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
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Ethnicity, Culture, Tolerance, Race/Racism,
Discrimination, Prejudice, Segregation, Ethnocentricity, Minority,
Diversity factors, Cultural Blending/Diversification, and
Ethnic Cleansing are historical concepts
that influence individual and group perception of ethnic groups.
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Human
migration impacts cultural development of societies.
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When
one ethnic group encounters another, a variety of responses is possible,
including
assimilation/acculturation, pluralism, colonialism, genocide, social
protest.
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Societies are diverse and change over time.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
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What concepts are important in order to study different
ethnic and minority groups?
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Why
are terms for different ethnic groups sometimes controversial?
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Why do people move?
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What happens when a minority/ethnic
group comes into contact with a majority group?
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In what ways are ethnic groups
alike? Different?
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What are the major contributions to
American history, as viewed by the ethnic group and as viewed by others?
Standards and Benchmarks
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History 3: Students understand that
societies are diverse and change over time.
Benchmark B: Students understand the history of social
organization in various societies.
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History
6: Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have
been powerful forces throughout history.
Benchmark C: Students know how various forms of expression
reflect religious beliefs and philosophical ideas.
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Geography 4: Students understand how economic,
political cultural, and social processes interact to shape
patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation and
conflict.
Benchmark E: Students know how cooperation and conflict among
people influence the division and control of the earth's
surface.
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