GRUNDY CENTER HIGH SCHOOL

            SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

LEARNER PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

Unit One:  Introduction to Government

*Development of “Constitution and Me” Brochure

*Develop an understanding of the Principals of Democracy

* Key Concepts

                   Democracy, Types of Governments, Grass Roots Democracy, Representative

                                Democracy, Constitution, Preamble, Six Principals of the Constitution, Popular

                                Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Limited Government,

                                Judicial Review, Federalism, Compromise, Goals of Government, Unconstitutional,

                                New Jersey Plan, Virginia Plan, Connecticut Plan, 3/5s Compromise, Bicameral,

                                Unicameral, Concurrent Powers, Expressed Powers, Reserved Powers, Inherent

                                Powers, Necessary and Proper Clause, Amendments to the Constitution, Bill of

                                Rights, Framers of the Constitution, Due Process, Amendment Process, Commerce

                                Clause, Supremacy Clause, Interstate Trade, Intrastate Trade

Unit Two:  Legislative Branch

*Develop an understanding of the process of how a bill becomes a law and the role and function of the legislative branch.

* Key Concepts

                   Congress, Requirements of a member of HR and Senate,

                                Length of term in office, Powers of Congress, Influence on

                                Congress, Congressional Staff, How a bill becomes a law,

                                Committees/subcommittees, hopper, pigeonhole, filibuster,

                                Bill, law, veto, override a veto, cloture rule, rules committee,

                                Leadership in HR and Senate, junket, conference, voting,

                                Trustee v. delegate, reapportionment, title of the bill, open

                                Rule, closed rule, riders, impeachment, House Ways and

                                Means committee, Special Interest Groups, Lobbyists

Unit Three:  Executive Branch

*Develop an understanding of the powers and responsibilities of the President of the United States

*Key Concepts

                   Requirements to be President, Commander and Chief, Chief Executive Officer,

Presidential Powers, Power ofAppointment, Treaties, War Powers Act, Cabinet, Executive Office of the President, Chief of Staff, RolesOf the President, President’s Influence, Growth of Exec. Branch, Council of Economic Advisors, National Security Council, C.I.A., Executive Agreements, Inauguration of the  President, Ideology, Characteristics of a President, Pardons,

                                Watergate, Impeachment, Executive Orders, Line of

                                Succession, Positives and Negatives of being President,

                                Office of Management and Budget, Diplomacy

Unit Four:  Judicial Branch

*Create a brief, summarizing a “landmark Supreme Court case”

* Define the role and function of the judicial branch

          * Key Concepts

                   Jurisdiction, Petition, District Courts, Court of Appeals,

                                Supreme Court, Judicial Clerks, Conference, Rule of 4,

                                Brief, Oral Arguments, Court Decisions, U.S. Supreme

                                Court, Due Process, Differences between state and federal

                                Courts, differences between adult and juvenile courts,

                                Search warrants, Miranda Rule, separate but equal,

                                Executive privilege, judicial review, probable cause,

                                Ex  post facto law, reverse discrimination, indictment,

                                Acquit, conviction, Writ of Habeus Corpus, Jury,

                                Civil and criminal law, Landmark Supreme Court Cases

                                Amicus Curiae Brief, Grand Jury, Plaintiff, Defendant

Unit Five:  Elections and the Political Process

*Create a campaign portfolio, complete with authentic political campaign materials and statistics.

*Assess the political process and recognize the importance of voting

*Key Concepts

                   Political Parties, Functions of Political Parties, Politics,

                                Two-party System, Electoral College, Political Symbols,

                                Types of Political Parties, Third Party Importance,

                                Platform, Voting Trends, Gerrymandering, Interest Groups

                                P.A.C.s, Primary, Caucus, Conventions, Straw Poll,

                                Ideology, Republican, Democrat, Delegate, Coat-tail Effect,

                                Nominations, Registration, Campaign Staff, Sound Bite,

                                Ballot, Precinct, Ward, Mandate, Landslide, Campaign

                                Advertising, Campaign Finance

Unit Six:  State and Local Governments

*Develop an understanding of the role and function of state and local governments, with special interest in Grundy County and Iowa politics.

* Key Concepts

                   city government, county government, types of municiple

                                governments, county offices, mayor, city council, city

                                managers, public administration, taxes, sales tax, property

                                tax, income tax, assessment, user fees, townships, board

                                of supervisors, Iowa General Assembly, Governors, state

                                courts, local utilities, functions of city and state government

Unit Seven: Foreign Policy

*Actively participate in the Embassy Row project contributing cultural, geographic and political information on a selected foreign nation.

* Key Concepts

                   Types of World Governments, Types of Economic Systems,

                                Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Embassy, Ambassador,

                                Components of foreign policy, types of foreign policy,

                                Influences on U.S. foreign policy, alliances, sanctions,

                                Foreign aid, arbitration, deterrence, military industrial

                                Complex, United Nations, General Assembly, Security

                                Council, Big 5, World Health Organization, Bureaucracy,

                                Civil Service Exam, foreign service

Unit Eight: Comparative Economics

*Application of learned information of capitalist economic systems through involvement in stock market simulation.

*Summerize the principal of supply and demand and its effects on a free-market society, consumer choice and productivity.

*Key Concepts

                   Capitalism, socialism, communism, mixed economies,

                                Principals of capitalism, entrepreneur, profit motive,

                                Natural resources, human resources, capital resources,

                                Wants/needs, goods/services, business cycle, productivity,

                                Mass production, scarcity, inflation, Economic Theories,

                                Gross domestic product, consumer price index, leading

                                Economic indicators, opportunity costs, supply and

                                Demand, elasticity/inelasticity of demand, means of

                                Production, money, types of businesses, corporations,

                                Monopoly, role of the Federal Reserve, reserve requirement

                                Stock market, preferred stock, common stock, dividends,

                        Monetary policy

LEARNER PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

Unit One:  Reconstruction

          *Develop an understanding of the conditions of the United States         

          at the conclusion of the Civil War and efforts towards rebuilding

          the nation politically, socially and economically.

          * Key Concepts

                   Reconstruction, radical republicans, Abraham Lincoln

                                Andrew Johnson, amnesty, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles

                                Sumner, Assassination of Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth,

                                Freedman’s Bureau, Oliver Otis Howard, carpetbaggers,

                                Scalawags, 13, 14, 15 Amendments, Black Codes, Poll Tax,

                                Ku Klux Klan, segregation, Immigration, railroad, election

                                Of 1876, Plessy v. Ferguson, Hiram Revels, Problems facing

                                Former slaves after Civil War, problems of south after Civil

                                War

Unit Two: Progressive Era and Industrial Growth

          *Create a presentation explaining the development of new

          new technology and its impact on the development of the United

          States then and now.

          *Support how the development of industry impacted America

          at the time and today.

          * Key Concepts

                   Progressives, business development, business leaders of late

                                1800s, westward movement, Little Big Horn, transcontinent

                                railroad, Wounded Knee, Women’s Suffrage Movement,

                                Monopolies, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Child Labor,

                                Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal, Problems of

                                Industrial growth, inventions of late 1800s, muckrakers,

                                Urbanization, immigration,

Unit Three:  World War I

          *Assess the causes of war and the impact of war on America

          and the world at the time and in the future.

          * Key concepts

                   Causes of WW I, alliance system, world leaders of WW I,

                                Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, major battles of WW I,

                                Four fronts of war, Lusitania, Zimmerman Note, Woodrow

                                Wilson, new inventions of war, John Pershing, U-boats,

                                Doughboys, convoy system, draft, Treaty of Versailles,

                                League of Nations, results of war, U.S. reaction to war

Unit Four:  The Roaring Twenties

*Analyze the impact a time of economic prosperity had on

American lifestyles, spending habits and politics in the 1920s.

* Key Concepts

          Jazz Age, isolationism, materialism, flappers, impact of

                The automobile, new business and industry, radio, sports

                Of the 20s, Charles Lindburgh, prohibition, Al Capone,

                Speakeasies, bootlegging, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover

                Woman’s suffrage, farming in the 20s, problems of the 20s,

                Buying on margin, over-production, Scopes Trial,

                Similarities of the 20s to today

Unit Five: Great Depression and New Deal

          *Examine the effects of economic depression on America and the

          role of government New Deal programs to repair America.

*Key Concepts

                   Four parts of the business cycle, Theory of Economic

                                Relativity, direct relief, work relief, Franklin Roosevelt,

                                Stock Market Crash of 29, Brain Trust, New Deal,

                                Hoovervilles, unemployment, New Deal programs,

                                Relief, recovery, reform, social security, bank holiday,

                                Henry Wallace, John Steinbeck, fireside chat, dust bowl,

                                Court packing, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, causes of the great

                                Depression, creeping socialism

Unit Six: World War II

          *Create an indepth presentation of a particular aspect or event

          involving World War 2.

          *Determine the long-lasting impact, World War 2 had on

          America, the world and the role of the United States as a world

          Super power.

          * Key Concepts

                   Causes of WW II, dictatorships, Adolf Hitler, warlords,

                                Benito Mussolini, Pearl Harbor, Axis powers, allies,

                                Winston Churchill, battle of Great Britain, War in Europe,

                                War in the Pacific, home front, kamakazi, Bataan,

                                Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, D-Day,

                                Battle of the Bulge, Holocaust, concentration camps, Nazi

                                Iwo Jima, Harry Truman, luftwaffe, blitzkrieg, Patton,

                                Rommel, Enola Gay, atomic bomb, Hiroshima, results of

                                The war, Marshall Plan, impact of WW II on today.

Unit Seven: 1950’s and Cold War

          *Determine what is meant by  the Cold War and U.S. attempts

          to contain the spread of Communism.

          *Demonstrate knowledge of how the baby-boom had long term

          effects on American lifestyles, economics and politics.

          * Key Concepts

              Iron Curtain, Cold War, Marshall Plan, Nuremburg

                                Trials,  Federal Highway Act, Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa

                                Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., integration, Korean Conflict,

                                Key events of Korean Conflict, Discoveries of the 50s, Dr. Jonus

                                Salk, Green Revolution, Jackie Robinson, John Foster Dulles,

                                Brinksmanship, Containment, Nikita Krushchev, Red Scare,

                                Joe McCarthy, Rosenburgs, rock and roll music, U-2 spy plane,

                                Statehood, fads of the 50s

Unit Eight:  The 1960’s

          *Create an in-depth presentation of a significant event which

demonstrates the political., social and cultural changes taking place in America during the 1960s.

* Key Concepts

                   Civil Rights Movement, Space Race, Election of 1960,

                                John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Vietnam Conflict,

                                New Frontier, NASA, Assassination of Kennedy, Cuban

                                Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Key events of the Vietnam

                                Conflict, lasting results of the Vietnam Conflict, Great

                                Society, Lyndon Johnson, Freedom Rides, Black Panthers

                                Woodstock, changes in American society, race riots, 1968

                                Democratic Convention, Television and music of  the 60s

                                Woman’s rights movement, drug use, assassination of

                                King and Robert Kennedy

Unit Nine: Watergate and the ‘70s

          *Demonstrate understanding of how the events surrounding the

          Vietnam Conflict and the Watergate scandal would change

          American attitudes towards war, the military, the media, and

          Government actions then and in the future.

          * Key Concepts

                   Richard Nixon, Vietnamization, Gerald Ford, Watergate,

                                Yom Kippur War, inflation, OPEC, 26^th Amendment,

                                Foreign policy with China and USSR, SALT I,

                                Détente, “All the President’s Men”, resignation of Nixon,

                                Jimmy Carter, Terrorism, Camp David Accords,

                                1972 Olympics, Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S.

                                Bicentennial, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini

                                Three Mile Island, Human Rights, Disco,

                                Arab Oil Embargo

Unit Ten:  The Reagan-Bush Years

          *Analyze the impact the Presidency of Ronald Reagan would have

          on rebuilding America, with special emphasis on the collapse of

          Communism is Eastern Europe.

          *Present a time-line of events which lead to the fall of the USSR,

          the nuclear arms build up, and increased national debt.

          *Key Concepts

                   Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Trickle down economics,

                                Star Wars, SDI, budget deficits, Grenada, Attack on

                                Libya, AIS, Reunification of Germany, Fall of the USSR,

                                Beirut bombing, Sandra Day O’Connor, Clarence Thomas,

                                Iran-Contra Scandal, Operation Desert Storm,. Sadaam

                                Hussien, Moral Majority, Boris Yeltsin, China protest

Unit Eleven: 1990s

          *Examine the impact of technology and inter-dependence on

          global events, energy, business and communication.

          *Key Concepts

                   Bill Clinton, apartheid, Microsoft, Impeachment of

                                Clinton, Oklahoma City bombing, prosperity, Challenger,

                                War in Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, Rwanda, gay rights

                                Movement, gang violence, Al Gore, cell phones,

                                Personal home computers, internet

Unit Twelve:  Contemporary America

          *Examine the current national and international events, leaders

          and important issues facing the United States and the world.

          *Relate historical events as possible cause and effect of current

          events and possible future situations.

          *Key Concepts

                   George W. Bush, Election of 2000, War on Terrorism,

                                Sept. 11, 2001,  to be continued