Social+Studies+ELS

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== EL 1. Students recognize and explain how the geography of a civilization influences the behavior, economics, settlement patterns and determines its characteristics. ==
 * 1) Students will be able to locate and identify political units, regions and physical features of ancient civilizations.
 * 2) Students will explain how specific political and geographic features influenced the settlement patterns of a specific civilization
 * 3) Students will analyze the various ways ancient civilizations produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services.
 * 4) Students will be able to predict the economic choices made by various ancient civilizations based on the scarcity and abundance of their resources.
 * 5) Students will explain how the geography of a specific civilization determines the use of land including agricultural developments, mining, and

== EL 2. Students will explain the development and role of social classes within each era or civilization. ==
 * 1) Students will reconstruct through presentations, writing,discussions and performances the emergence and role of each social class within a society.
 * 2) Students will compare the development of social classes within each civilization.
 * 3) Students will understand the necessity of social classes and explain the role of each within a society.

== EL 3. Students will compare and contrast various forms of government and explain their evolution through time. ==
 * 1) Students will explain the correlation between social levels, power, and wealth.
 * 2) Students will describe the governments that developed in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages.
 * 3) Students will be able to describe the progression from monarchy to democracy in ancient Greece.
 * 4) Students can explain the relationship between types of governments and social classes that develop in a civilization as well as the success.

== EL 4. Students analyze how technology evolved and impacted the development of ancient societies. ==
 * 1) Students will be able to identify prominent technological developments that have endured from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and European Middles Ages. Examples: Algebra, math, wheel, irrigation, weaponry, medicine, architecture, tools, transportation, and how these affected what these societies contributed to the world.

== EL 5. Students will distinguish between various religions and philosophical ideas comparing and contrasting their characteristics. ==
 * 1) Students will understand the role of religion and philosophy in government and how thier ideas are interwoven with the ancient governments of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome.
 * 2) Students will define and compare the characterisitics of various religions and philosophies of ancient civilizations.

== EL 6. Students will classify, illustrate, identify, compare, and evaluate the artistic and cultural achievements of various civilizations. ==
 * 1) Students will be able to identify the significance of specific artiistic contributions of each of the ancient civilizations.
 * 2) Students will be able to describe art work as a record of human experience, interpret art work using criteria of art history.