Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.1c
The Standard
- SS24.CWI.1
- Explain how cultural, geographic, political, and social points of view can influence media descriptions of current international events.
Relate current news stories to past events and broader historical trends.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Media Literacy
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect a recent news story to a specific past event. They use dates and source details to explain a longer pattern and show what has changed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student links a current strike report to the 1936 Flint sit-down strike and the 1981 air traffic controllers' strike. They use facts from all three to describe a pattern in labor disputes and a change in how strikes were handled.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat two strikes as the same because both involve workers walking off the job. They may call a past strike the direct cause of today's news or claim a trend based on one event.
How to Assess It
- Give students a recent strike article and a brief timeline of the 1936 Flint and 1981 air traffic controllers' strikes. Ask them to cite a detail from each source, name a longer pattern, and explain one difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a current strike article and cards for the Flint and air traffic controllers' strikes; sort demands, tactics, and responses by date.
Ask: Which past strike best helps explain the current article, and where does that comparison break down?
Play Link or Stretch: groups draw a news headline card and a past strike card, then defend or reject the connection with two facts.
Have students write a two-sentence text to a family member explaining how a current strike resembles and differs from a past strike.
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Related Standards
- SS24.1.12a
Summarize historical events that have shaped the community and state.
- SS24.CWI.3a
Interpret statistics included in current news stores related to political, social, and economic issues.
- SS24.HS.8a
Compare historical evidence to previous interpretations and corroborate salient facts and theories.
- SS24.CWI.1b
Describe the impact of current news stories and the issues they present on the individual and on local, national, and international communities.
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