African Americans in the White House Neighborhood Standards

Common Core State Standards Correlations

Grade 7: Speaking and Listening

CSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.4: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Grade 7: History/Social Studies

CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.6: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.9: Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.

Grade 8: Speaking and Listening

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.4: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Grade 8: History/Social Studies

CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.6: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.9: Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.

Grades 9-10: Speaking and Listening

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.

Grades 9-10: History/Social Studies

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.9: Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.

Grades 11-12: Speaking and Listening

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1: 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.

Grades 11-12: History/Social Studies

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1: 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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2: 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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.4: 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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7: 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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9: Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

District of Columbia Social Studies Content Standards

Grade 8

8.7.5 Describe the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded mutual aid societies, schools, and churches to advance their rights and communities.
8.8.4 Trace the development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (in the South).
8.10.6 Identify the conditions of enslavement, and explain how slaves adapted and resisted in their daily lives.
8.10.7 Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.

Grade 12

12.DC.5 Students describe the nation's capital during the early 19th century.
12.DC.6.1 Analyze the abolition movement in Washington, D.C..
12.DC.6.4 Debate Washington, D.C.'s new Black Code.
12.DC.7. Describe the effect of the Civil War had on life in Washington, D.C. and they explain the effects of Compensated Emancipation and the Emancipation Proclamation on the city.
12.DC.7.5 Describe the emancipation by compensation of slaves owned by residents of Washington, D.C. and the emancipation of slaves in the Confederacy.

Grade 7-8 Historical and Social Science Analysis Skills

Chronology and Historical Interpretation

Explain how major events are related to one another in time.
Explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.
Understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including short-term causes or sparks from long-term causes.
Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources, draw sound conclusions from them, and cite sources appropriately.

Geographic Skills

Use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states and countries. Interpret historical maps and charts.

Grades 9-12 Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills

Historical Chronology and Interpretation

Show connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments.
Interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event unfolded rather than present day norms and values.

Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View

Construct and test hypotheses, collect, evaluate, and employ information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.

Maryland Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 8

Standard 1.0 Political Science

1.A.3.a Examine the effect that national interests have on shaping government policy, such as the abolitionist movement and slavery, states’ rights, and regional commerce.
1.C.2.b Describe methods that were used to deny civil rights to women, African Americans and Native Americans.

Standard 2.0 Peoples of the Nation and World

2.C.1.c Describe various reform movements, such as abolition, women’s rights, and education.

Standard 5.0 History

5.C.4 Analyze the institution of slavery and its influence on societies in the United States.
5.C.4.b Analyze the experiences of African-American slaves, and free blacks.

Grades 7-8

Standard 6.0 Social Studies

6.A.4 Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading).
6.B.1 Select and use informal writing strategies, such as short response/essay answer/brief constructed responses, journal writing, note taking, and graphic organizers to clarify, organize, remember, and/or express new understandings.
6.F.1 Interpret information from primary and secondary sources.
6.F.2 Evaluate information from a variety of sources.
6.F.3 Synthesize information from a variety of sources.
6.G.1 Describe how the country has changed over time and how people have contributed to its change, drawing from maps, photographs, newspapers, and other sources.
6.G.2 Use historic contexts to answer questions.

Virginia History and Social Studies Standards of Learning

Grade 7

CE.1 The student will develop the social studies skills responsible citizenship requires, including the ability to

examine and interpret primary and secondary source documents.

CE.4 The student will demonstrate knowledge of personal character traits that facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in civic life by

practicing trustworthiness and honesty;
practicing courtesy and respect for the rights of others;
practicing responsibility, accountability, and self-reliance;
practicing decision making.

Grade 11

VUS.1 The student will demonstrate skills for historical and geographical analysis and responsible citizenship, including the ability to

identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary source documents, records, and data, including artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, journals, newspapers, historical accounts, and art, to increase understanding of events and life in the United States;
develop perspectives of time and place, including the construction of maps and various timelines of events, periods, and personalities in American history;
communicate findings orally and in analytical essays or comprehensive papers;
interpret the significance of excerpts from famous speeches and other documents.

VUS.6 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the major events from the last decade of the eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century by

describing the cultural, economic, and political issues that divided the nation, including tariffs, slavery, the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, and the role of the states in the Union.

Grade 12

GOVT.1 The student will demonstrate mastery of the social studies skills responsible citizenship requires, including the ability to

analyze primary and secondary source documents;

GOVT.17 The student will demonstrate knowledge of personal character traits that facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in civic life by

practicing trustworthiness and honesty;
practicing courtesy and respect for the rights of others;
practicing responsibility, accountability, and self-reliance.

National Center for History in the Schools History Standards

Grades 7-12

Era 4

2B: The student understands the first era of American urbanization. Therefore, the student is able to

Explain the growth of free African American communities in the cities and account for the rise of racial hostility.

2D: The student understands the rapid growth of the “peculiar institution” after 1800 and the varied experiences of African Americans under slavery. Therefore, the student is able to

Identify various ways in which African Americans resisted the conditions of their enslavement and analyze the consequences of violent uprisings.
Evaluate how enslaved African American used religion and family to create a viable culture and ameliorate the effects of slavery.

4A: The student understands the abolitionist movement.

Historical Thinking Standards Grades 7-12

Standard 1: Chronological Thinking

The student is able to: distinguish between past, present, and future time; establish temporal order in constructing historical narratives of their own; reconstruct patterns of historical succession and duration, explain historical continuity and change.

Standard 2: Historical Comprehension

The student is able to: identify the author or source of the historical document or narrative and assess its credibility; reconstruct the literal meaning of a historical passage; identify the central question(s) the historical narrative addresses; differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations; read historical narratives imaginatively; appreciate historical perspectives; draw upon data in historical maps; utilize visual, mathematical, and quantitative data; draw upon the visual, literary, and music sources.

Standard 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation

The student is able to: compare and contrast differing sets of ideas; consider multiple perspectives, analyze cause –and-effect relationships; draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues; hold interpretations of history as tentative; hypothesize the influence of the past.

Standard 4: Historical Research Capabilities

The student is able to: formulate historic questions; interrogate historical data; identify the gaps in the available records and marshal contextual knowledge and perspectives of the time and place; employ quantitative analysis; support interpretations with historical evidence.

Standard 5: Historical Issues

The student is able to: identify issues and problems in the past; evaluate the implementation of a decision.