Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.7.6.A
The Standard
- MWH.C.7
- Evaluate post-World War II regional events leading to the transformations of the modern world.
- MWH.C.7.6
- Evaluate the conditions leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequences for Europe.
Examine the goals of Poland’s Solidarity Movement and other civil resistance movements that challenged communist rule.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.7.6
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what Solidarity and other resistance groups wanted to change under communist rule. They use accounts of strikes, petitions, and protests to separate each group’s goals from its methods.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short account, students can name a group’s demand and explain how it pressed for change. They can compare Solidarity’s push for independent unions with Charter 77’s call for civil rights.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Solidarity demanded free national elections from the start, rather than beginning with independent unions and worker rights. They may also assume every resistance group used violence or wanted exactly the same changes.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one goal and one nonviolent tactic for both Solidarity and Charter 77. Explain one difference between their goals.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four cards showing Solidarity strikes, its demands, Charter 77 petitions, and civil rights demands; have them sort goals from tactics.
Ask students to write: Why did Polish workers seek independent unions while Charter 77 signers called for civil rights?
Play a matching round: pair Solidarity, Charter 77, and East German Monday protests with a goal and a nonviolent tactic.
Hand out a sample workplace petition for safer conditions; students compare its demands and organizing method with Solidarity’s demands and strikes.
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