Learning Goal Scale

Grade/Content: US History 11th Grade: CH 8: The West

Learning Goal: SWBAT
1. Examine how the economy, society, and culture of the South and West changed after
the Civil War.
2. Identify people, events, and terms associated with the New South, westward expansion, and the
American Indians.

Score Self- Evidence

4.0 Check
Students will analyze documents to decipher the rational behind the
displacement of Native Americans onto reservations.

No major errors regarding the score 4.0 content

Score Self- Evidence
3.0 Check
Students will examine the economic and social factors that changed
the West after the Civil War.

Students will examine how the pressures of westward expansion

impacted the Native Americans.

No major errors regarding the score 3.0 content

Score Self- Evidence
2.0 Students will identify people, terms, and events of the New South Check
and Westward Expansion.

People: Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Exoduster

Terms: cash crop, Farmers’ Alliance, Civil Rights Act of 1875,

reservation, assimilate, Dawes General Allotment Act,
transcontinental railroad, land grant, open-range system, Homestead
Act

Events: Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of the Little Big Horn,

Wounded Knee
Score No major errors regarding the score 2.0 With help, partial
1.0 success at score 2.0 content and score 3.0 content
Score Even with help, no success
0.0
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