NORTH CAROLINA ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

American Humanities

NCES.AHUM.C.1 - Understand how American culture defines what it means to be an American.
- NCES.AHUM.C.1.1 - Analyze expressions of identity within American literature, philosophy, and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.1.2 - Distinguish between Americans' acceptance or rejection of both religious faith and human reasoning through literary movements.
- NCES.AHUM.C.1.3 - Compare ways that various ethnic and cultural communities in America have articulated the self.
- NCES.AHUM.C.1.4 - Compare ways in which the human ideal has been expressed in American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.1.5 - Evaluate the extent to which American affluence has affected individual identity.

NCES.AHUM.C.2 - Understand the role of conformity and individualism in American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.2.1 - Explain how conformity and individuality have influenced American literature, philosophy and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.2.2 - Evaluate the extent to which American support or criticism of conformity has influenced American literature, philosophy and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.2.3 - Evaluate the extent to which individualism and the belief in the human capacity to solve problems has influenced American literature, philosophy, and the arts.

NCES.AHUM.C.3 - Understand how poverty, affluence, and the "American Dream" have influenced American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.3.1 - Compare multiple perspectives of the American Dream using examples of American literature, philosophy, and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.3.2 - Distinguish the American Dream as an idealistic or pragmatic philosophy.
- NCES.AHUM.C.3.3 - Evaluate universal prosperity as a Utopian ideal founded in the American Dream.
- NCES.AHUM.C.3.4 - Evaluate the extent to which poverty, affluence and the American dream have affected literature, philosophy, and the arts.

NCES.AHUM.C.4 - Understand how American culture has sought to balance individual rights with the common good.
- NCES.AHUM.C.4.1 - Deconstruct the concepts of freedom, equality, and justice in American literature, philosophy and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.4.2 - Explain how discrepancies in freedom, equality and justice influenced American literature, philosophy and the arts.

NCES.AHUM.C.5 - Understand how conflict and consensus influences American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.5.1 - Analyze the relationship between conflict and consensus in American literature, philosophy, and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.5.2 - Explain the impact of American slavery on American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.5.3 - Analyze the relationship between warfare and American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.5.4 - Analyze American societal perceptions of women.
- NCES.AHUM.C.5.5 - Explain how social movements on behalf of civil rights and reform have influenced American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.5.6 - Evaluate the extent to which conflict and consensus have shaped American literature, philosophy, and the arts.

NCES.AHUM.C.6 - Understand how human interaction with land and nature has impacted American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.6.1 - Explain how human interaction with land and nature impacted the development of literature, philosophy, and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.6.2 - Distinguish nature as a useful resource for humanity or an uncontrollable element.
- NCES.AHUM.C.6.3 - Explain how movement on the American frontier influenced artistic expression and philosophical thought within the United States.
- NCES.AHUM.C.6.4 - Analyze the relationship between regionalism and cultural development.

NCES.AHUM.C.7 - Understand the relationship between industrialization, urbanization and American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.7.1 - Explain how industrialization and urbanization impacted the development of American literature, philosophy, and arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.7.2 - Analyze the relationship between urban immigration, migration and American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.7.3 - Evaluate the extent to which industrialization and urbanization have defined American culture.

NCES.AHUM.C.8 - Understand the relationship between innovation and American culture.
- NCES.AHUM.C.8.1 - Explain how innovations in technology, transportation and communication influenced American literature, philosophy, and the arts.
- NCES.AHUM.C.8.2 - Analyze various genres of American music, in terms of origins, development, cultural effects and distribution through radio and television.
- NCES.AHUM.C.8.3 - Analyze the development of popular culture in terms of psychology, advertising, and consumerism.
- NCES.AHUM.C.8.4 - Evaluate mediums of popular culture, such as music, television, photographs, and movies, in terms of historical context and accuracy.