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Civics Benchmarks
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Economics Benchmarks
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Geography Benchmarks
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History Benchmarks
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[Government]
Governments have the power to make and enforce laws and regulations,
levy taxes, conduct foreign policy, and make war.
Analyze the different functions
of federal, state, and local governments in the United States
and examine the reasons for the different organizational structures
each level of government employs.
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[Microeconomics]
Analyze how changes in technology, costs, and demand interact
in competitive markets to determine or change the price of
goods.
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[Maps]
Demonstrate mental maps of the world and its subregions which
include the relative location and characteristics of major
physical features, political divisions, and human settlements.
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[Chronology]
Examine historical materials relating to a particular region,
society, or theme; and analyze change over time; and make
logical inferences concerning cause and effect.
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[Politics]
Understand that the concept of majority rule does not mean
that the rights of minorities may be disregarded and will
examine and apply the protections accorded those minorities
in the American political system.
Understand the principles and content of major American state
papers such as the Declaration of Independence; United States
Constitution (including the Bill of Rights); and the Federalist
Papers.
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[Macroeconomics]
Analyze the role of money and banking in the economy, and
the ways in which government taxes and spending affect the
functioning of market economies.
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[Environment]
Apply a knowledge of the major processes shaping natural
environments to understand how different people have changed,
and been affected by physical environments in the world's
subregions.
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[Analysis]
Master the basic research skills necessary to conduct an
independent investigation of historical phenomena.
Examine historical documents, artifacts, and other materials,
and analyze them in terms of credibility, as well as the purpose,
perspective, or point of view for which they were constructed.
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[Citizenship]
Understand that civil rights secure political freedom while
property rights secure economic freedom and that both are
essential protections for United States citizens.
Understand that American citizenship includes responsibilities
such as voting, jury duty, obeying the law, service in the
armed forces when required, and public service.
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[Economic Systems]
Demonstrate the ways in which the means of production, distribution,
and exchange in different economic systems have a relationship
to cultural values, resources, and technologies.
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[Places]
Identify and explain the major cultural patterns of human
activity in the world's subregions.
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[Interpretation]
Compare different historians descriptions of the same societies
in order to examine how the choice of questions and use of
sources may affect their conclusions.
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[Participation]
Follow the actions of elected officials, and understand and
employ the mechanisms for communicating with them while in
office.
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[International Trade]
Examine how nations with different economic systems specialize
and become interdependent through trade and how government
policies allow either free or restricted trade.
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[Regions]
Understand the processes affecting the location of economic
activities in different world regions.
Explain how conflict and cooperation among people contribute
to the division of the Earth's surface into distinctive cultural
regions and political territories.
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[Content]
*US & Delaware History Beginnings to 1877
*World History
Beginnings to 1,500 AD
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