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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2020 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- ABE 0792
- Course Title:
- Social Studies for GED and College Prep
- Credit Hours:
- 0
- Contact Hours:
- 40-48
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
Recommended: CASAS Reading placement 239 or higher.
Total contact hours: 40-48
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
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Use reading and writing strategies to analyze basic social studies topics including civics and government, U.S. history, economics, and geography.
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Apply a range of strategies including activating prior knowledge and cultural understanding to monitor and enhance comprehension of basic social studies topics.
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Apply the understanding of these topics on the GED Ready and GED Exam.
Aspirational Goals
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Exhibit persistence, self-motivation, self-advocacy, and personal responsibility
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Reflect upon, assess, identify, and celebrate one’s own learning gains
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Explore, develop, and monitor appropriate academic and professional goals
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Advance knowledge and skills to make independent choices as a citizen, family member, worker, and life-long learner
Outcome Assessment Strategies
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Complete CASAS reading test
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Pass GED Practice test in Social Studies
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Take college placement test (if college bound)
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Create portfolios, including reflections, drafts and final writing pieces about basic social studies topics
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Assess comprehension with quizzes, multiple choice questions, written response, and discussion questions
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Complete a computer-based assignment
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes: development of modern liberties and democracy, human and civil rights from ancient civilizations to the present, dynamic responses in societal systems
Concepts :goal setting, critical thinking, decision making, confidence building, collaborative team-work, media literacy, cultural literacy, student success skills
Issues: barriers to student success, access to resources, communication skills, learning differences, test and school anxiety, and behavior appropriate to academic and professional settings
Skills:
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Recognize the 3 branches of government
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Understand the purpose of each branch of government
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Understand the major occurrences in United States history
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Recognize the basic concepts of economics
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Locate major geographic regions of the United States and some of the world
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Analyze how history plays a role in today’s society
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Draw on prior experience, research, new knowledge, and one’s own questions, interests and observations to generate ideas for writing about basic social studies topics
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Choose among a variety of strategies appropriate to planning and organizing texts types
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Summarize and paraphrase ideas in a text while avoiding plagiarism
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Draw from a broad vocabulary that includes words needed for specialized and/or academic purposes
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Express one’s own thoughts and ideas in a way that is clear and compelling
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Read regularly for own purposes
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Identify, clarify, and/or prepare for complex social studies related reading
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Recognize on sight syllable patterns/types, root words, and affixes in multi-syllabic words
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Acquire and apply meanings of most words and phrases found in everyday and academic texts, including terms related to specialized social studies topics
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Accurately read text composed of dense or long, complex sentences and paragraphs with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression
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Evaluate and/or apply prior knowledge of the content and situation, including cultural understanding, to support comprehension
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Use strategies easily and in combination to pronounce and/or discern the meanings of unfamiliar words found in a complex social studies text
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Choose from a range of strategies, including some sophisticated ones, and integrate them to monitor and/or enhance text comprehension (e.g. scan/skim, make inferences, mark text and/or make notes, organize notes and/or make graphic organizers and text maps, write a summary to check understanding, discuss with others)
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Use text format and features (e.g. search engines, drop down menus, headings) to enhance comprehension
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Locate, analyze, and critique stated and unstated information, ideas/arguments, and/ or themes in a complex functional, informational, or persuasive text
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Determine, analyze and summarize the author’s central idea and major points over multiple paragraphs/pages
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Evaluate the reliability, accuracy, and sufficiency of information, claims, or arguments
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Draw conclusions related to the structural elements of a complex literary work, using literary terms
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Analyze and evaluate an author’s style, attending to the use of language and literary techniques and to influences on the writing
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Integrate the people/characters, events, information, ideas/arguments, themes, or writing styles in lengthy or multiple complex tests with each other and/or with knowledge of the world to address a complex reading purpose
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Agree or disagree with an idea/argument/claim or theme, and explain reasoning
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Follow complex, multi step directions, integrating written and graphic information (e.g., science experiment)
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Compare and Contrast people/characters, events and ideas in different social studies related texts
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Combine, compare, contrast and/or critique ideas/arguments/claims or themes in different texts
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Analyze the cause and effect of past events