Criteria for Historical Thinking
Very well To some extent To a limited degree Not at all Not applicable

Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students
To begin a unit or lesson focused on cause and consequence:
• What were the short- and long-term causes of X (an historical event)?
• What were the consequences of X (an historical event)?
• Was it really X (a person) who gave birth to Y (a development)?
• What kind of a difference did X make to Y (a community)?
• What lay behind X (an historical event)?
• How did X (a cause or an historical event) make a difference?
• Was X a success? In what ways?
• Whose lives changed because of X (an historical event)?
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Criteria for Historical Thinking
Very well To some extent To a limited degree Not at all Not applicable

Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students
To consider the perspectives of people in their historical context:
• If this action doesn’t seem to make sense, isn’t what you might expect, or is surprising, why did X (a person) take this course of action?
• If this action appears to have been the best response, why did X (a person) not take this course of action?
• What did X (a group or individual) feel was most important in their life at this particular time?
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Criteria for Historical Thinking
Very well
To some extent
To a limited degree
Not at all
Not applicable

Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students
To think about ethical positions in a textbook:
• How do textbooks convey ethical positions?
• Whose ethical positions do they represent?
• What ethical positions does our textbook take?
• What evidence do you see of these positions? (e.g., particular words or phrases)
• Which ethical positions in this textbook do you agree with (if any); which do you disagree with (if any)?
• How can it be useful to be aware of the ethical dimension in a textbook?
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Demonstrate an understanding of irrational numbers in both radical (including mixed radical) and exponent forms through: representing: identifying: simplifying: ordering: relating to rational numbers: applying exponent laws.

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These are example rubrics for measuring growth in CHARACTER. Rubrics are provided for K-5, 6-9 and 10-12.

Sun West Character High School 10-12 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.

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Character Playbook is an innovative digital course that uses engaging strategies to educate students about cultivating and maintaining healthy relationships during their critical middle school years. Comprised of six lessons that cover key concepts around positive character development, social-emotional learning (SEL), and building healthy relationships, Character Playbook allows students to engage with real-world scenarios, including examples of bystander intervention, resolving conflicts, effective communication, and positive relationships.

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Analyzing Influences
Understanding & Managing Emotions
Communicating Effectively
Resolving Conflicts
Stepping In
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The following handout is an assignment for students where they acknowledge their strengths and weaknesses, character traits and self regulation in the classroom.

In this handout, students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, their character traits and their self regulation in class.

In which John Green teaches you about the Holy Roman Empire by teaching you about Charles V. Charles Hapsburg was the holy Roman Emperor, but he was also the King of Spain. And the King of Germany. And the King of Italy and the Lord of the Netherlands and Count Palatine of Burgundy. In short, Charles was runnin' thangs in much of the world during his reign. Charles ruled a lot of countries, and he was also known for encouraging intellectual discourse and he even spoke out against slavery, in a limited. So why did he consider himself a failure, and why did he break up the Empire when he abdicated in 1556? Mainly because the Holy Roman Empire didn't work very well. It was huge, and it didn't have any means of directly raising taxes. Plus, it was a pretty crazy time in Europe anyway, and Charles found himself in charge of the Catholic-Church-Endorsed Empire in the time of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. John will teach you a bit about how Charles put the Empire together, and how it fell apart, and even talk a bit about the Diet of Worms.

Today we're going to start our two-part unit on data visualization. Up to this point we've discussed raw data - which are just numbers - but usually it's much more useful to represent this information with charts and graphs. There are two types of data we encounter, categorical and quantitative data, and they likewise require different types of visualizations. Today we'll focus on bar charts, pie charts, pictographs, and histograms and show you what they can and cannot tell us about their underlying data as well as some of the ways they can be misused to misinform.

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