# Grade 8: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 2 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/ma-ss-grade-8

Part of: [Massachusetts: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/ma-ss.md)

Goal: Massachusetts academic standards: Social studies, Grade 8

## 1. Civics · The philosophical foundations of the United States political system

- [Inclusion and Exclusion in Athens](https://ai.page/c/inclusion-and-exclusion-in-athens/index.md): Analyse who was included and excluded from Athenian democracy — only free adult male citizens (roughly 30% of adults) could participate, while women, enslaved people (who may have made up a third of the population), and foreign residents (metics) were excluded — and evaluate whether Athens truly deserves the title 'birthplace of democracy' by comparing it with modern representative democracies

## 2. Civics · Rights and responsibilities of citizens

- [Global Citizenship](https://ai.page/c/global-citizenship/index.md): Understand what it means to be a citizen in an interconnected world where decisions in one place affect people elsewhere; explore global issues (climate justice, forced migration, global health, poverty) through an empathy lens, distinguishing facts from value judgements; engage with the ethical tension between obligations to those close to us and obligations to distant strangers; introduce evidence-based giving and effective altruism as one framework for thinking about global responsibility; develop a personal, reasoned stance on global citizenship that acknowledges complexity

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Credit: The structure of Massachusetts academic standards: Social studies (https://www.doe.mass.edu/instruction/hss/); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.