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HSS-3.4 Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

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Describe the ways in which California, the other states, and sovereign American Indian tribes contribute to the making of our nation and participate in the federal system of government.

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HSS-3.4 Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

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Describe the lives of American heroes who took risks to secure our freedoms (e.g., Anne Hutchinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr.).

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Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.

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HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Understand that some goods are made locally, some elsewhere in the United States, and some abroad.

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HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Understand that individual economic choices involve trade-offs and the evaluation of benefits and costs.

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HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Discuss the relationship of students’ “work” in school and their personal human capital.

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Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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Analyze the influence of ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development of American government.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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Discuss the character of American democracy and its promise and perils as articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville.