Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.2c
The Standard
- SS24.HS.2
- Analyze secondary sources related to the selected topic in history.
Apply the concept of historiography through contrasting how various historians have interpreted the 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 read two historians’ accounts of the same event. They identify each historian’s main claim, compare the evidence used, and explain why the accounts differ.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how one historian stresses ideas behind the American Revolution while another stresses economic interests. They can point to a passage that supports each reading without treating either account as just an opinion.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think historians simply report facts, so different accounts mean one historian got the facts wrong. They may also mistake a historian’s claim for a fact the historian uses as evidence.
How to Assess It
- Give students short excerpts by Gordon Wood and Howard Zinn on the American Revolution. Ask: What cause does each historian stress, and which sentence supports your answer?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed Wood and Zinn excerpts; have them cut out and sort sentences into claims and supporting evidence.
Ask students to write: Why might Wood and Zinn emphasize different causes of the American Revolution?
Play a matching game with excerpt cards, historian name cards, and cards naming each historian’s main claim.
Place a textbook paragraph about the Revolution beside both excerpts; have students underline which historian’s view the textbook most closely follows.
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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.1a
Identify and explain examples of how the historical subject is currently represented.
- SS24.HS.2b
Explain how a historian constructs a viewpoint on a historical subject.
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