Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.1a
The Standard
- SS24.HS.1
- Describe how a selected historical subject is currently remembered or regarded, explaining how historical memory contributes to current thinking about the event.
Identify and explain examples of how the historical subject is currently represented.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Subject Survey
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find present-day portrayals of a historical person or event, such as a statue, street name, or museum page. They explain what each portrayal tells people about its subject.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify a Rosa Parks statue as a present-day portrayal of her. They can point to a detail, such as her seated pose, and explain what it suggests about how she is remembered.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a current memorial as a record made when the event happened. They may name a statue or street sign without explaining what it suggests about the person.
How to Assess It
- Show a photo of the Rosa Parks statue in the U.S. Capitol. Ask students to name one visible detail and explain how it shapes the way visitors remember her.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed photo of the Rosa Parks statue and a National Park Service page about her; have them mark what each emphasizes.
Ask students: What does the statue show about Rosa Parks, and what does the park service page add? Write two sentences using details from both.
Make cards showing a statue, street sign, museum panel, and book cover about Rosa Parks; have teams match each to a claim about her portrayal.
Find Rosa Parks Boulevard in Detroit on Google Maps, then write how the street name keeps her memory visible to people using it.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HS.1b
Explain factors that have influenced or shaped how the historical subject is viewed in modern day.
- SS24.HS.6
Compare historical methods utilized for research and evaluate how these methods yield information regarding the selected historical subject.
- SS24.HS.1
Describe how a selected historical subject is currently remembered or regarded, explaining how historical memory contributes to current thinking about the event...
- SS24.HS.2c
Apply the concept of historiography through contrasting how various historians have interpreted the historical subject.
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