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.
Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II. A communist regime consolidated power in 1947 following the war and ended in 1989. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.