Standards
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
• The students will consider the sources of historic documents, narratives, or artifacts and evaluate their reliability
• The students will understand how different experiences, beliefs, values, traditions, and motives cause individuals and groups interpret historic events and issues from different perspectives
• The students will describe historic events through the eyes and experiences of those who were there.