RI.4. In grade 5, students determined the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases related to grade level subject matter. In grade 6, they also determine figurative, connotative, and technical meanings of words and phrases. In grade 7, they will continue to do the same, and they
The First Partition of Poland was decided on August 5, 1772. Two decades later, Russian and Prussian troops entered the Commonwealth again and the Second Partition was signed on January 23, 1793. Austria did not participate in the Second Partition.
The fact that the Partitions happened should not be surprising, rather that it took so long for them to occur in face of Poland's apparent hopelessness. Unlike other European states, which contained various ethnic groups, it did not seek to forcibly incorporate its minorities into the cultural sphere of the dominant ethnic group.