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Social Studies Standard 2.1 - Level 8
Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses regarding what happened in the past and to obtain and analyze historical data to answer questions and test hypotheses.
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
Students will compare and contrast problems and issues of the past with problems and issues of today.
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW
- Historical context including bias, distortion, propoganda, and point of view.
- Primary sources, documents and researched data
ABLE TO DO
- Students will compare and contrast problems of the past with the issues of today. These are the topics to be included:
- Witch hunts of yesterday with witch hunts of today
- Slavery yesterday/Racism today
- Immigration yesterday and immigration today
- Beginning political parties of Federalists/Anti-Federalists and then comparing them to today's political parties.
- Bill of Rights and Constitution and how it has stayed the same, but the U.S. has changed or adapted it to changing issues with regards to the Supreme Court. For example:Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education. Also, the Dred Scott case and then the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
Instructional Strategies
- Read Textbook and do daily reading activities
- Constructed Response essay questions
- Puritan General Court Similation
- Constitutional Convention Similation
- Supreme Court case group reports
- Amendments Poster contest
- Lectures on immigration problems of the past and present
- Show slavery videos and then the Montgomery School Boycott of the 1950's and then compare and contrast.
Assessment Strategies
- Constructed Response essay questions
- Puritan General Court Similation
- Constitutional Convention Similation
- Supreme Court case group reports
- Amendments Poster contest
- Tests
Resources
- Textbook
- Montgomery, Alabama, School Boycott of 1950's video
*Roots, Race to Freedom, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Adventures of Huck Finn *In Search of the Salem Witch Trials Video *United States Constitution *United States Amendments
Projects and Activities
- Read Textbook and do daily reading activities
- Constructed Response essay questions
- Puritan General Court Similation
- Constitutional Convention Similation
- Supreme Court case group reports
- Amendments Poster contest
- Supreme Court Cases book
