Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.2b
The Standard
- SS24.HS.2
- Analyze secondary sources related to the selected topic in history.
Explain how a historian constructs a viewpoint on a 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 ask a question about a past event, check sources, and use evidence to build an account. They explain how a historian's question and choice of sources shape that account.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can make a claim about an event, point to details in sources, and explain what those sources cannot tell us. They can show how two accounts of the same event may differ while both use evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a historian's viewpoint as an unsupported opinion. They may assume one document tells the whole story, or that every account is equally well supported.
How to Assess It
- Give students a Montgomery bus boycott leaflet and Rosa Parks's arrest record. Ask: “What claim could a historian make about how the boycott began? Cite one detail from each source and name one question left open.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs copies of Rosa Parks's arrest record and a boycott leaflet; have them sort details into evidence, inference, and unanswered question.
Ask: “How could two historians use these documents to tell different, well-supported stories about the boycott's start?” Require one cited detail.
Deal teams source cards showing a boycott leaflet, an arrest record, and a later interview; challenge them to defend a claim using two.
Have students write a 40-word museum label about the boycott, then swap labels and circle evidence included and missing.
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