Impact of Civil War and Conflicts on Identity:
Division, Violence, & Reconciliation

NJ Core Content Standards Addressed:

Standard 6.1:

All Students Will Learn Democratic Citizenship and How to Participate in the Constitutional System of the Government of the United States

By the end of Grade 4, students will be able to:

2. Identify examples of the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

3. Assess information about a public issue.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will be able to:

8. Identify and interpret the balance between the rights and the responsibilities of citizens.

9. Locate, access, analyze, organize, and apply information about public issues, recognizing and explaining multiple points of view.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will be able to:

14. Locate, access, analyze, organize, and apply information about public issues in order to evaluate the validity of different points of view.

 

Standard 6.3:
All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding Of Political and Diplomatic Ideas, Forces, and Institutions throughout the History of New Jersey, the United States, and the World

By the end of Grade 4, students will be able to:

3. Identify and explain how events and changes occurred in significant historical periods.

4. Explain issues, standards, and conflicts related to universal human rights

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will be able to:

5. Explain relationships between cause, effect, and consequences, in order to understand significant historical events.

7. Analyze how events and changes occurred in significant historical periods.

8. Understand issues, standards, and conflicts related to universal human rights.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will be able to:

12. Understand the views of people of other times and places regarding the issues they have faced.

 

Standard 6.4:
All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding Of Societal Ideas and Forces throughout the History of New Jersey, the United States, and the World

By the end of Grade 4, students will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast similarities and differences in daily life over time.
2. Identify social institutions, such as family, religion, and government, that function to meet individual and group needs.
3. Identify instances when the needs of an individual or group are not met by their social institutions.
4. Identify events when people have engaged in cruel and inhumane behavior.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will be able to:

7. Understand how family, community, and social institutions function to meet individual and group needs.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will be able to:

10. Evaluate how individuals, groups, and institutions influence solutions to society's problems.

11. Analyze historical and contemporary circumstances in which institutions function either to maintain continuity or to promote change.

 

Standard 6.5:
All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding of Varying Cultures throughout the History of New Jersey, the United States, and the World.

By the end of Grade 4, students will be able to:

3. Describe the customs of people from different geographic, cultural, racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds.

6. Examine particular events, and identify reasons why individuals from different cultures might respond to them in different ways.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will be able to:

8. Analyze the influence of various cultural institutions, such as family, religion, education, economic and political systems, on individual decision-making.

9. Understand the customs of people from different geographic, cultural, racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds.

10. Analyze the political, social, economic, and technological factors, which cause cultural change.

11. Analyze how different cultures deal with conflict.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will be able to:

14. Understand views held by people in other times and places regarding issues they have faced.

15. Interpret how various cultures have adapted to their environments.

16. Analyze how beliefs and principles are transmitted in a culture.

17. Understand the multiple influences of gender, family background, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and nationality as the bases for analysis of individual identity.

 

Standard 6.6:
All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding of Economic Forces, Ideas, and Institutions throughout the History of New Jersey, the United States, and the World

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will be able to:

7. Explain the roles of markets and government policy in meeting the needs and wants of individuals and society.

9. Explain and illustrate how attitudes and beliefs influence economic decisions.

10. Evaluate a decision about the balance between economic growth and environmental preservation.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will be able to:

11. Apply economic concepts and reasoning when evaluating historical and contemporary developments and issues.

13. Evaluate how the economic system meets wants and needs.

14. Analyze the successes and failures of various economic systems in meeting the needs and wants of their people.

15. Evaluate an economic decision.

16. Analyze and evaluate economic growth in the context of environmental conditions and sustainable development.

 

Standards 6.7 – 6.9 are addressed on a very broad level depending on how supplemental materials are used.