Course Standards
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SS.912.C.1.1: | Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the founding ideals and principles in American Constitutional government. | |
SS.912.C.1.2: | Explain how the Declaration of Independence reflected the political principles of popular sovereignty, social contract, natural rights, and individual rights. | |
SS.912.C.1.3: | Evaluate the ideals and principles of the founding documents (Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Federalist Papers) that shaped American Democracy. | |
SS.912.C.1.4: | Analyze and categorize the diverse viewpoints presented by the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists concerning ratification of the Constitution and inclusion of a bill of rights. | |
SS.912.C.1.5: | Evaluate how the Constitution and its amendments reflect the political principles of rule of law, checks and balances, separation of powers, republicanism, democracy, and federalism. | |
SS.912.C.2.1: | Evaluate the constitutional provisions establishing citizenship, and assess the criteria among citizens by birth, naturalized citizens, and non-citizens. | |
SS.912.C.2.2: | Evaluate the importance of political participation and civic participation. | |
SS.912.C.2.3: | Experience the responsibilities of citizens at the local, state, or federal levels.
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SS.912.C.2.4: | Evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues that cause the government to balance the interests of individuals with the public good. | |
SS.912.C.2.5: | Conduct a service project to further the public good.
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SS.912.C.2.6: | Evaluate, take, and defend positions about rights protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. | |
SS.912.C.2.7: | Explain why rights have limits and are not absolute.
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SS.912.C.2.8: | Analyze the impact of citizen participation as a means of achieving political and social change.
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SS.912.C.2.9: | Identify the expansion of civil rights and liberties by examining the principles contained in primary documents.
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SS.912.C.2.10: | Monitor current public issues in Florida.
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SS.912.C.2.11: | Analyze public policy solutions or courses of action to resolve a local, state, or federal issue. | |
SS.912.C.2.12: | Explain the changing roles of television, radio, press, and Internet in political communication. | |
SS.912.C.2.13: | Analyze various forms of political communication and evaluate for bias, factual accuracy, omission, and emotional appeal.
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SS.912.C.2.14: | Evaluate the processes and results of an election at the state or federal level. | |
SS.912.C.2.15: | Evaluate the origins and roles of political parties, interest groups, media, and individuals in determining and shaping public policy. | |
SS.912.C.2.16: | Analyze trends in voter turnout.
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SS.912.C.3.1: | Examine the constitutional principles of representative government, limited government, consent of the governed, rule of law, and individual rights. | |
SS.912.C.3.2: | Define federalism, and identify examples of the powers granted and denied to states and the national government in the American federal system of government. | |
SS.912.C.3.3: | Analyze the structures, functions, and processes of the legislative branch as described in Article I of the Constitution. | |
SS.912.C.3.4: | Analyze the structures, functions, and processes of the executive branch as described in Article II of the Constitution. | |
SS.912.C.3.5: | Identify the impact of independent regulatory agencies in the federal bureaucracy.
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SS.912.C.3.6: | Analyze the structures, functions, and processes of the judicial branch as described in Article III of the Constitution. | |
SS.912.C.3.7: | Describe the role of judicial review in American constitutional government. | |
SS.912.C.3.8: | Compare the role of judges on the state and federal level with other elected officials.
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SS.912.C.3.9: | Analyze the various levels and responsibilities of courts in the federal and state judicial system and the relationships among them. | |
SS.912.C.3.10: | Evaluate the significance and outcomes of landmark Supreme Court cases.
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SS.912.C.3.11: | Contrast how the Constitution safeguards and limits individual rights. | |
SS.912.C.3.12: | Simulate the judicial decision-making process in interpreting law at the state and federal level. | |
SS.912.C.3.13: | Illustrate examples of how government affects the daily lives of citizens at the local, state, and national levels.
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SS.912.C.3.14: | Examine constitutional powers (expressed, implied, concurrent, reserved). | |
SS.912.C.3.15: | Examine how power and responsibility are distributed, shared, and limited by the Constitution. | |
SS.912.C.4.1: | Explain how the world's nations are governed differently. | |
SS.912.C.4.2: | Evaluate the influence of American foreign policy on other nations and the influences of other nations on American policies and society. | |
SS.912.C.4.3: | Assess human rights policies of the United States and other countries. | |
SS.912.C.4.4: | Compare indicators of democratization in multiple countries. | |
SS.912.G.4.1: | Interpret population growth and other demographic data for any given place. | |
SS.912.G.5.5: | Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of policies and programs for resource use and management. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.1.1: | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.1.2: | Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.1.3: | Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.2.4: | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10). | |
LAFS.1112.RH.2.5: | Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.2.6: | Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.3.7: | Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.3.8: | Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.3.9: | Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. | |
LAFS.1112.RH.4.10: | By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently. | |
LAFS.1112.SL.1.1: | Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
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LAFS.1112.SL.1.2: | Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data. | |
LAFS.1112.SL.1.3: | Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used. | |
LAFS.1112.SL.2.4: | Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.1.1: | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
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LAFS.1112.WHST.1.2: | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
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LAFS.1112.WHST.2.4: | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.2.5: | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.2.6: | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.3.7: | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.3.8: | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.3.9: | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. | |
LAFS.1112.WHST.4.10: | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. | |
MAFS.912.S-IC.2.3: | Recognize the purposes of and differences among sample surveys,
experiments, and observational studies; explain how randomization
relates to each. ★ Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-IC.2.4: | Use data from a sample survey to estimate a population mean or
proportion; develop a margin of error through the use of simulation
models for random sampling. ★ Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-IC.2.5: | Use data from a randomized experiment to compare two treatments;
use simulations to decide if differences between parameters are
significant. ★ Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-IC.2.6: | Evaluate reports based on data. ★ Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-ID.1.1: | Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots,
histograms, and box plots). ★
Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-ID.1.2: | Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to
compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range,
standard deviation) of two or more different data sets. ★
Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-ID.1.3: | Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of
the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points
(outliers). ★
Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.912.S-ID.1.4: | Use the mean and standard deviation of a data set to fit it to a normal
distribution and to estimate population percentages. Recognize that
there are data sets for which such a procedure is not appropriate.
Use calculators, spreadsheets, and tables to estimate areas under the
normal curve. ★ Standard Relation to Course: Supporting | |
MAFS.K12.MP.1.1: | Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, “Does this make sense?” They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches. | |
MAFS.K12.MP.3.1: | Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and—if there is a flaw in an argument—explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments. | |
MAFS.K12.MP.5.1: | Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. Proficient students are sufficiently familiar with tools appropriate for their grade or course to make sound decisions about when each of these tools might be helpful, recognizing both the insight to be gained and their limitations. For example, mathematically proficient high school students analyze graphs of functions and solutions generated using a graphing calculator. They detect possible errors by strategically using estimation and other mathematical knowledge. When making mathematical models, they know that technology can enable them to visualize the results of varying assumptions, explore consequences, and compare predictions with data. Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts. | |
MAFS.K12.MP.6.1: | Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions. | |
ELD.K12.ELL.SI.1: | English language learners communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting. | |
ELD.K12.ELL.SS.1: | English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Social Studies. | |
HE.912.C.2.4: | Evaluate how public health policies and government regulations can influence health promotion and disease prevention.
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General Course Information and Notes
VERSION DESCRIPTION
This course must include a comparative discussion pf political ideologies, such as communism and totalitarianism, that conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy essential to the founding principles of the United States.
GENERAL NOTES
United States Government - The grade 9-12 United States Government course consists of the following content area strands: Geography, Civics and Government. The primary content for the course pertains to the study of government institutions and political processes and their historical impact on American society. Content should include, but is not limited to, the functions and purpose of government, the function of the state, the constitutional framework, federalism, separation of powers, functions of the three branches of government at the local, state and national level, and the political decision-making process.
Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning. Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.
Mathematics Benchmark Guidance - Social Studies instruction should include opportunities for students to interpret and create representations of historical events and concepts using mathematical tables, charts, and graphs.
Special Notes:
Additional content that may be included in the Grade 12 NAEP Civics assessment includes:
- Distinctive characteristics of American society
- Unity/diversity in American society
- Civil society: nongovernmental associations, groups
- Nation-states
- Interaction among nation-states
- United States, major governmental, nongovernmental international organizations
The NAEP frameworks for Civics may be accessed at http://www.nagb.org/publications/frameworks/civicsframework.pdf
Instructional Practices
Teaching from well-written, grade-level instructional materials enhances students' content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any reason. Using the following instructional practices also helps student learning:
- Reading assignments from longer text passages as well as shorter ones when text is extremely complex.
- Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
- Asking high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex tasks and assignments.
- Requiring students to support answers with evidence from the text.
- Providing extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).
Literacy Standards in Social Studies
Secondary social studies courses include reading standards for literacy in history/social studies 6-12, and writing standards for literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects 6-12. This course also includes speaking and listening standards. For a complete list of standards required for this course click on the blue tile labeled course standards. You may also download the complete course including all required standards and notes sections using the export function located at the top of this page.
English Language Development ELD Standards Special Notes Section:
Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate information, ideas and concepts for academic success in the content area of Social Studies. For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success. The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL's need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: https://cpalmsmediaprod.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/docs/standards/eld/ss.pdf
Additional Instructional Resources:
A.V.E. for Success Collection is provided by the Florida Association of School Administrators: http://www.fasa.net/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=139. Please be aware that these resources have not been reviewed by CPALMS and there may be a charge for the use of some of them in this collection.
General Information
Course Number: 2106320 |
Course Path: Section: Grades PreK to 12 Education Courses > Grade Group: Grades 9 to 12 and Adult Education Courses > Subject: Social Studies > SubSubject: Political Sciences > |
Abbreviated Title: US GOVT HON | |
Number of Credits: Half credit (.5) | |
Course Attributes:
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Course Type: Core Academic Course | Course Level: 3 |
Course Status: Course Approved | |
Grade Level(s): 9,10,11,12 | |
Graduation Requirement: United States Government | |
Educator Certifications
Political Science (Grades 6-12) |
History (Grades 6-12) |
Social Science (Grades 6-12) |