McREL: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, Content Knowledge Standards and Benchmark Database

List of Benchmarks for United States History

Standard 31.

Understands economic, social, and cultural developments in the contemporary United States

Topics

1. Social issues and individual rights in contemporary American society; 2. Roles and experiences of diverse groups

Level III (Grade 7-8)

Benchmark 5.

Understands how different groups attempted to achieve their goals (e.g., the grievances of racial and ethnic minorities and their reference to the nation’s charter documents to rectify past injustices, local community efforts to adapt facilities for the disabled)

Vocabulary terms
A. group attempts to achieve goals

Knowledge/skill statements

Knows the goals of racial and ethnic minority groups

Knows the grievances of racial and ethnic minority groups

Knows how racial and ethnic minority groups have referenced the nation’s charter documents to rectify past injustices

Knows the efforts of community groups to adapt facilities for the disabled

Citation Log: BD(BE,130,131;AE,238;NI,28,29)

Citation reference BD = benchmark, declarative BP = benchmark, procedural BC = benchmark, contextual 1st letter/number of each code in parentheses:
A	NCHS: U.S. History, Expanded Edition
B	NCHS: Basic Edition
L	Lessons from History
N	NAEP: Framework 2006
2nd letter code : E = Explicitly stated in document I = Implicit in document Number: Page number of the cited document