BHS Social Studies

● Guam ● Hawaii ● Panama ● Puerto Rico

○ Learning Intention #2: ■ U.S. II Standard 3.3: Students will evaluate the negative impacts of imperialism on the U.S. and the U.S. territorial interests, such as: ● Philippines

● Cuba ● Guam ● Hawaii ● Panama ● Puerto Rico

■ U.S. II Standard 3.4: Students will explain the causes for U.S. involvement in World War I and the effects of the war on the home front, such as migration, trade, Sedition Act, shortages, voluntary rationing, and the Spanish fl u. ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will explain the causes for U.S. involvement in World War I. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will explain the effects of the war on the home front, such as shortages, and voluntary rationing. ○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will explain the effects of the war on the home front, such as migration . ○ Learning Intention #4: ■ Students will explain the effects of the war on the home front, such as the Sedition Act . ○ Learning Intention #5: ■ Students will explain the effects of the war on the home front, such as the Spanish Flu . NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with history to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a United States history course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: U.S. II Standard 3 ○ Source Analysis • Who wrote this? • What is the author’s perspective? • Why was it written? • When was it written? • Where was it written? • Is this source reliable? Why? Why not? ○ Contextualization • When and where was the document created? • What was different then? • What was the same? • How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content?

POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS ● How does the U.S. decide when and why to intervene in world affairs?