Maroons in North America
Connecting to Standards
"Negroes leaving their home," [Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Photographs and Prints Division]
Missouri Learning Standards
Recommended Grades
6-8
Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards
Standard 1: Choices have consequences.
Standard 2: Individuals have rights and responsibilities.
Standard 3: Societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups.
Standard 5: Relationships among people, places, ideas, and environments are dynamic.
Theme 1: Tools of Social Science Inquiry
Theme 4: Expansion
Theme 5: Conflict and Crisis
MS.AH.1.CC.A: Using an American history lens, describe how peoples’ perspectives shaped the sources/artifacts they created.
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MS.AH.1.CC.D: Using an inquiry lens, develop compelling questions about American history prior to c. 1870, to determine helpful resources and consider multiple points of views represented in the resources.
MS.AH.4.PC.B: Analyze the experiences of enslaved peoples in North and South America to determine the cultural impact and enduring consequences.
MS.AH.5.GS.A: Analyze the geography of U.S. North, South, and West in order to explain their cultural, social and economic differences.
Classroom Practices
Multiple Causes and Consequences
Effective classroom practices promote students identifying, making a claim, and defending with evidence and argument, a variety of possible causes of events and consequences. These practices encourage appropriate decision-making, and help students understand the complexity of the various disciplines
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Multiple Perspectives and Disciplines
Effective classroom practices promote students using multiple perspectives, points of view, and the principles of history, economics, civics, geography, and the humanities, and support a student’s ability to empathize, to develop alternative solutions to problems, and to self-assess their own positions
Research and Construction of Knowledge
Effective classroom practices promote students being able to collect, organize, and evaluate information to construct an understanding of relevant evidence as it applies to a particular topic. These skills must include the use of both traditional and digital information and communication technologies.
Using Primary Sources
Effective classroom practices promote students analyzing and interpreting a variety of different primary sources in traditional and digital formats, provides the opportunity for students to recognize the discipline’s subjective nature, to directly touch the lives of people in the past, and develop high level analytical skills.