Common Core Standards - 3rd Grade
SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.
- Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and César Chávez (workers’ rights).
- Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.
SS3G2 The student will describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with the historical figures in SS3H2a.
1. Describe how each of these historical figures adapted to and was influenced by his/her environment.
ELACC3SL1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- c. Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
- d. Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
ELACC3SL4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.