Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.2a
The Standard
- SS24.HS.2
- Analyze secondary sources related to the selected topic in history.
Describe the strengths and limitations of different types of secondary sources for providing insight into the selected historical subject.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Subject Survey
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare sources written after a historical event, such as a textbook account, museum timeline, and historian's essay. They identify what each source helps explain and what it leaves unanswered.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a museum timeline to trace the Montgomery bus boycott, then explain why the timeline alone cannot show why people kept participating. They can choose a fuller account for that question and explain why.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a museum timeline a primary source because it lists dates from the past. They may assume a textbook tells the whole story, or that a source with gaps is useless.
How to Assess It
- Give students a textbook paragraph and a museum timeline on the Montgomery bus boycott. Ask them to name one insight and one gap for each, then choose which better explains why the boycott lasted.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print a textbook paragraph, museum timeline, and historian's essay on the boycott; have students mark what each reveals and what each leaves out.
Ask students to write which source best explains why the boycott lasted over a year, using one detail from that source.
Play source match: teams pair boycott questions with source cards, then explain why one card fits each question better than the others.
Have students use a National Park Service page to draft a boycott walking-tour sign, then list one question visitors would still have.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HS.6
Compare historical methods utilized for research and evaluate how these methods yield information regarding the selected historical subject.
- SS24.HS.2
Analyze secondary sources related to the selected topic in history.
- SS24.HS.4c
Describe the strengths and limitations of different types of primary sources for providing insight into the selected historical subject.
- SS24.HS.4
Locate and utilize a variety of primary sources related to the selected historical subject.
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