RELATIVE COMMON CORE STANDARDS, AASL STANDARDS, AND

VA/US HISTORY SOL STANDARDS

Common Core Standard

AASL Standard(s)

CC11-12RH/SS1 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.

2.1.3 Use strategies to draw

conclusions from information and
apply knowledge to curricular areas,
real world situations, and further
investigations.

CC11-12RH/SS2 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.

2.1.3 Use strategies to draw

conclusions from information and
apply knowledge to curricular areas,
real world situations, and further
investigations.

CC11-12RH/SS3 Evaluate various

explanations for actions or events
and determine which explanation
best accords with textual evidence,
acknowledging where the text leaves
matters uncertain.

2.1.3 Use strategies to draw

conclusions from information and
apply knowledge to curricular areas,
real world situations, and further
investigations.

CC11-12RH/SS4 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

4.1.3 Respond to literature and

creative expressions of ideas in
various formats and genres.

2.4.1 Determine how to act on

information (accept, reject, modify).

2.4.1 Determine how to act on

information (accept, reject, modify).

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CC11-12RH/SS5 Analyze in detail how 4.1.3 Respond to literature and
a complex primary source is
creative expressions of ideas in
structured, including how key
various formats and genres.
sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text contribute to the
whole.
CC11-12RH/SS6 Evaluate authors'
differing points of view on the same
historical event or issue by assessing
the authors' claims, reasoning, and
evidence.

1.1.7 Make sense of information

gathered from diverse sources by
identifying misconceptions, main and
supporting ideas, conflicting
information, and point of view or bias.
2.2.2 Use both divergent and
convergent thinking to formulate
alternative conclusions and test them
against the evidence.
2.2.3 Employ a critical stance in
drawing conclusions by
demonstrating that the pattern of
evidence leads to a decision or
conclusion.
2.3.3 Use valid information and
reasoned conclusions to make ethical
decisions.

CC11-12RH/SS7 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.

1.1.7 Make sense of information

gathered from diverse sources by
identifying misconceptions, main and
supporting ideas, conflicting
information, and point of view or bias.
1.2.3 Demonstrate creativity by using
multiple resources and formats.
2.1.6 Use the writing process, media
and visual literacy, and technology

skills to create products that express

new understandings.
3.1.4 Use technology and other
information tools to organize and
display knowledge and understanding
in ways that others can view, use,
and assess.
CC11-12RH/SS8 Evaluate an author's
premises, claims, and evidence by
corroborating or challenging them
with other information.

1.1.7 Make sense of information

gathered from diverse sources by
identifying misconceptions, main and
supporting ideas, conflicting
information, and point of view or bias.
2.2.2 Use both divergent and
convergent thinking to formulate
alternative conclusions and test them
against the evidence.

2.2.3 Employ a critical stance in

drawing conclusions by
demonstrating that the pattern of
evidence leads to a decision or
conclusion.

2.3.3 Use valid information and

reasoned conclusions to make ethical
decisions.
2.4.1 Determine how to act on
information (accept, reject, modify).
CC11-12RH/SS9 Integrate information
from diverse sources, both primary
and secondary, into a coherent
understanding of an idea or event,

2.2.2 Use both divergent and

convergent thinking to formulate
alternative conclusions and test them
against the evidence.

noting discrepancies among sources.

2.3.2 Consider diverse and global

perspectives in drawing conclusions.
4.4.4 Interpret new information based
on cultural and social context.

CC11-12RH/SS10 By the end of grade

12, read and comprehend
history/social studies texts in the
grades 11-12 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.

http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards-guidelines/crosswalk/read-hist/grade11

STANDARD VUS.2 - The student will describe how early European

exploration and colonization resulted in cultural interactions among
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians.
STANDARD VUS.4 5 ----- (4) The student will demonstrate knowledge of
events and issues of the Revolutionary Period
(5) The student will demonstrate knowledge of the issues involved in the
creation and ratification of the Constitution of the United States and how the
principles of limited government, consent of the governed, and the social
contract are embodied in it
Essential Questions: In what ways did the cultures of Europe, Africa, and
the Americas interact? What were the consequences of the interactions of
European, African, and American cultures? What factors contributed to the
victory of the American rebels?
Essential Knowledge:
Virginia and the other Southern colonies were settled by people seeking
economic opportunities. Some of the early Virginia settlers were cavaliers,
i.e., English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from
the King of England. Poor English immigrants also came seeking better lives

as small farmers or artisans and settled in the Shenandoah Valley or western

Virginia, or as indentured servants who agreed to work on tobacco
plantations for a period of time to pay for passage to the New World.
Jamestown, established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London as a
business venture, was the first permanent English settlement in North
America. The Virginia House of Burgesses, established by the 1640s, was the
first elected assembly in the New World. It has operated continuously and is
known today as the General Assembly of Virginia.
Diplomatic Benjamin Franklin negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France.
The war did not have popular support in Great Britain. Military George
Washington, general of the American army, avoided any situation that
threatened the destruction of his army, and his leadership kept the army
together when defeat seemed inevitable. Americans benefited from the
presence of the French army and navy at the Battle of Yorktown, which
ended the war with an American victory.
The leading Virginia opponents of ratification were Patrick Henry and George
Mason; the leading Virginia proponents of ratification were George
Washington and James Madison.
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/frameworks/history_socialscience_fra
mewks/2008/2008_final/framewks_va-us_history.pdf