Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.4b
The Standard
- SS24.HS.4
- Locate and utilize a variety of primary sources related to the selected historical subject.
Compare and contrast the types of evidence provided by various primary sources.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Subject Research
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare what a speech, a photograph, and a newspaper front page can show about the same event. They use details from each source and name a question it cannot answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a speech to identify a speaker's demands and a photograph to describe what was visible at the event. They can explain why neither source proves how everyone there felt.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a speech as proof that everyone at an event agreed with the speaker. They may assume a photograph shows the whole crowd or that a newspaper headline tells the full story.
How to Assess It
- Show a March on Washington speech excerpt and a rally photograph. Ask: "Which better shows the speaker's demands, and which better shows signs at the rally? Cite one detail from each."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a March on Washington speech excerpt, rally photograph, and newspaper front page; have them mark one detail only that source can show.
Ask: "Can the rally photograph tell us what the speaker wanted? Can the speech tell us what signs people carried? Why?"
Play source match with cards labeled "speaker's words," "visible signs," and "newspaper headline"; students match each to a source and explain their choices.
Compare a posted school lunch menu with a photo of a served tray; ask what each reveals about the meal students received.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HS.5
Differentiate between primary and secondary sources on the subject and evaluate the quality of evidence each type yields.
- SS24.HS.4a
Describe methods for collecting primary source evidence.
- SS24.HS.4c
Describe the strengths and limitations of different types of primary sources for providing insight into the selected historical subject.
- SS24.1.11
Differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
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