Florida SS.8.HC.1

SS.8.HC.1 is a Florida social studies standard. These are the benchmarks under it.

• SS.8.HC.1.1

  Examine early attempts at communal living in American society and their effect on economic stability and societal prosperity.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify why groups such as the Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, and Oneida formed. They compare each community's beliefs, rules, shared work, property practices, challenges, and results.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can compare two communities using accurate details from sources. They can explain why a community grew, changed, declined, or lasted longer than others.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat these communities as identical or label all of them as modern communist societies. They may assume every community failed quickly, lacked leaders, or divided all work and property equally.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Choose Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, or Oneida. Name one goal, one community practice, and one reason it succeeded or struggled.

1. 01

   Give groups goal, work, property, family, and challenge cards to sort under Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, and Oneida.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: Which community had the best chance to last, and what evidence supports your choice?

3. 03

   Play a clue-card match where teams identify each community, then earn a point by explaining the clue's significance.

4. 04

   Compare one historical community's shared labor and property rules with a modern cooperative using a two-column chart.

• SS.2.A.2.4

  Explore ways the daily life of people living in Colonial America changed over time.

• SS.6.W.2.1

  Compare the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers with those of settlers of early agricultural communities.

• SS.5.AA.1.1

  Examine the life of African Americans in the colonial era.