Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all students to be successful when they advance to Bowling Green High School. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

• Creates questions to support thought-provoking questions that help students research and learn about US history between 1600-1877.

• Uses multiple sources to develop claims in response to compelling and supporting questions.

• Uses relevant evidence from multiple sources to create a claim and counterclaim to communicate knowledge of American History.

• Creates explanations to explain the development of the United States.

• Creates arguments to explain the development of the United States.

• Explains how democratic principles influenced major events in U.S. history from Colonial America through Reconstruction.

• Uses maps and other geographic representations to analyze settlement patterns in the US between 1600-1877.

• Analyzes how major events in U.S. history caused changes and affected different groups of people in different ways.

• Explains how global connections influenced culture, land use, and trade in the United States from 1600–1877.

• Analyzes how major events in U.S. history caused changes and affected different groups of people in different ways.

• Explains how global connections influenced culture, land use, and trade in the United States from 1600–1877

• Describes the conflicts and compromises that shaped the development of the U.S.