Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.1A:
Students explore the meaning of American culture by identifying the key ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behavior and traditions that help define it and unite all Americans.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.1B:
Students interpret the ideas, values and beliefs contained in the Declaration of Independence and the New York State Constitution and United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other important historical documents.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.2A:
Students describe the reasons for periodizing history in different ways.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.2B:
Students investigate key turning points in New York State and United States history and explain why these events or developments are significant.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.2C:
Students understand the relationship between the relative importance of United States domestic and foreign policies over time.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.2D:
Students analyze the role played by the United States in international politics, past and present.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.3A:
Students complete well-documented and historically accurate case studies about individuals and groups who represent different ethnic, national and religious groups, including Native American Indians, in New York State and the United States at different times in different locations.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.3B:
Students gather and organize information about the important achievements and contributions of individuals and groups living in New York State and the United States.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.3C:
Students describe how ordinary people and famous historic figures in the local community, State, and the United States have advanced the fundamental democratic values, beliefs, and traditions expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the New York State and the United States Constitutions, the Bill of Rights, and other important historical documents.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.3D:
Students classify major developments into categories such as social, political, economic, geographic, technological, scientific, cultural, or religious.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.4A:
Students consider the sources of historical documents, narratives, or artifacts and evaluate their reliability.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.4B:
Students understand how different experiences, beliefs, values, traditions, and motives cause individuals and groups to interpret historic events and issues from different perspectives.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.4C:
Students compare and contrast different interpretations of key events and issues in New York State and United States history and explain reasons for these different accounts.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.1.4D:
Students describe historic events through the eyes and experiences of those who were there.