Below are the standards, units, and resources that integrate the teaching of African and African American History in M/J World History. The Social Studies Departments does not have an adopted curriculum for African American History for Middle School. All resources and lessons are vetted and reviewed before placed in curriculum guides. 

Standards:

• SS.6.W.1.1 – Use timelines to identify the chronological order of historical events. 
• SS.6.W.1.3 – Interpret primary and secondary sources. 
• SS.6.W.2.5 - Summarize important achievements of Egyptian civilization. 
• SS.6.W.2.6 -  Determine the contributions of key figures from ancient Egypt. 
• SS.6.W.3.18 – Describe the rise and fall of the ancient east African kingdoms of Kush Axum and Christianity’s development in Ethiopia. 
• SS.6.G.2.3 – Analyze the relationship of physical geography to the development of ancient river valley civilization. 
• SS.6.G.2.4 – Explain how the geographical location of ancient civilizations contributed to the culture and politics of those societies. 
• SS.6.G.2.6 – Explain the concept of cultural diffusion, and identify the influences of different ancient cultures on one another. 
• SS.6.G.5.3 – Use geographic tools and terms to analyze how famine, drought, and natural disasters plagued many ancient civilizations. 

Unit of Integration:

• Unit 3: Lesson 1 
• Unit 8: Lesson 1

Resources for Integration:

• McGraw-Hill: Discovering Our Past: A History of the World
• National Geographic: http://nationalgeographic.org/education/teaching-resources
• Mr. Donn’s Site: http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/index.html and http://worldhistory.mrdonn.org/
• Stanford History Education Group: http://sheg.stanford.edu/ancient

Below are the standards, units, and resources that integrate the teaching of African and African American History in M/J Law Studies. The Social Studies Departments does not have an adopted curriculum for African American History for Middle School. All resources and lessons are vetted and reviewed before placed in curriculum guides. 

Standards:

• SS.7. C.3.12 – Analyze the significance and outcomes of landmark Supreme Court cases.  
• SS.7.C.3.7 – Analyze the impact of the 13^th, 14^th, 15^th, 19, 24^th, and 26^th amendments on the participation of minority groups in the American political process.

Units for Integration:

• Unit 5, Lesson 5 

Resources for Integration:

• iCivics: https://www.icivics.org/ 

• Bill of Rights Institute lesson on Brown v. Board of Education http://billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources/lessons-plans/landmark-supreme-court-cases-elessons/brown-v-board-of-education-1954/

Below are the standards, units, and resources that integrate the teaching of African and African American History in M/J Civics. The Social Studies Departments does not have an adopted curriculum for African American History for Middle School. All resources and lessons are vetted and reviewed before placed in curriculum guides. 

Standards:

• SS.7.C.3.7 – Analyze the impact of the 13^th, 14^th, 15^th, 19, 24^th, and 26^th amendments on the participation of minority groups in the American political process. 
• SS.7. C.3.12 – Analyze the significance and outcomes of landmark Supreme Court cases.  

Units of Integration:

• Unit 6: Lesson 2
• Unit 6: Lesson 3

Resources for Integration:

• McGraw-Hill Florida: Civics: Economics & Geography
• Gateway to American Government
• National Archives Digital Classroom: HTTP://docsteach.org/
• American Memory from the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Below are the standards, units, and resources that integrate the teaching of African and African American History in M/J U.S. History. The Social Studies Departments does not have an adopted curriculum for African American History for Middle School. All resources and lessons are vetted and reviewed before placed in curriculum guides. 

Standards:

• SS.8.A.1.3 – Analyze current events relevant to American History topics through a variety of electronic and print media resources. 
• SS.8.A.2.7 – Describe the contributions of key groups (Africans, Native Americans, women, and children) to the society and culture of colonial America. 
• SS.8.A.3.15 – Examine this time period (1763 – 1815) from the perspective of historically underrepresented groups (children, indentured servants, Native Americans, slaves, women, working-class). 
• SS.8.A.3.4 – Examine the contributions of influential groups to both the American and British war efforts during the American Revolutionary. 
• SS.8.A.3.8 – Examine individuals and groups that affected political and social motivations during the American Revolution. 
• SS.8.A.4.1 – Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness (War of 1812, Convention of 18188, Adams-Onis Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, Trail of Tears, Texas annexation, Manifest Destiny, Oregon Territory, Mexican American War/Mexican Cession, California Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Gadsden Purchase). 
• SS.8.A.4.3 – Examine the experiences and perspectives of significant individuals and groups during this era of American History. 
• SS.8.A.4.4 – Discuss the impact of westward expansion on cultural practices and migration patterns of Native American and African slave populations. 
• SS.8.A.4.8 - Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments of this era in American History. 
• SS.8.A.4.17 - Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as each impacts this era of American history. 
• SS.8.A.4.18 - Examine the experiences and perspectives of different ethnic, national, and religious groups in Florida, explaining their contributions to Florida's and America's society and culture during the Territorial Period. 
• SS.8.A.5.1 – Explain the causes, course, and consequence of the Civil War (sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, the balance of power in the Senate). 
• SS.8.A.5.2 - Analyze the role of slavery in the development of the sectional conflict. 
• SS.8.A.5.3 - Explain major domestic and international economic, military, political, and socio-cultural events of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. 
• SS.8.A.5.7 - Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as each impacts this era of American history. 
• SS.8.A.5.8 - Explain and evaluate the policies, practices, and consequences of Reconstruction (presidential and congressional reconstruction, Johnson's impeachment, Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the opposition of Southern whites to Reconstruction, accomplishments, and failures of Radical Reconstruction, the presidential election of 1876, end of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow laws, the rise of Ku Klux Klan). 
• SS.8.C.1.6 - Evaluate how amendments to the Constitution have expanded voting rights from our nation's early history to the present day. 
• SS.8.E.2.3 Assess the role of Africans and other minority groups in the economic development of the United States.

Units of Integration:

• Unit 2: Lesson 1
• Unit 4: Lesson 1
• Unit 6: Lesson 1 
• Unit 7: Lesson 1
• Unit 8: Lesson 1
• Unit 9: Lesson 1 
• Unit 10: Lesson 1

Resources for Integration:

• McGraw-Hill Florida: Discovering our Past: A History of the United States
• American Memory from the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era (set up a free account to access the multiple lessons and resources)
• The National Archive’s Digital Classroom http://docsteach.org/
• Digital Vaults http://www.digitalvaults.org/
• Stanford History Education Group http://sheg.stanford.edu/us