Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.6b
The Standard
- SS24.US1.6
- Evaluate the influence of American social and political reform on the emergence of a national identity from the early to mid-nineteenth century.
Investigate and share information on the influence of individuals and movements of art, religion, education, and literature on the emergence of a national identity.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find and share evidence about how painters, revival preachers, school reformers, and writers shaped ideas about being American. They explain whose experiences those ideas reflected and whose they left out.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can compare a Thomas Cole landscape, a revival account, Horace Mann's school proposals, and Emerson's writing. They use a detail from each to explain a different vision of the nation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say a landscape painting just shows scenery, rather than a view of American land. They may assume revival messages and public schools represented everyone, while overlooking people excluded from those visions.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A painting depicts American land without people, and Horace Mann calls for shared public schools. What idea about being American does each promote? Name one group either view overlooks.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a Thomas Cole landscape print and sticky notes; mark details that make the land seem grand or unpeopled.
Read a paragraph from Charles Finney's revival preaching; ask, "How could his call for personal change shape ideas about Americans?"
Match eight cards: Mann to public schools, Cole to landscapes, Finney to revivals, and Emerson to independent writing; explain one match aloud.
Read your school district's mission statement beside Horace Mann's case for common schools; circle words that describe the kind of citizen each imagines.
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Related Standards
- SS24.US1.6
Evaluate the influence of American social and political reform on the emergence of a national identity from the early to mid-nineteenth century.
- SS24.1.12
Utilize primary sources to examine the significance of individuals, cultures, celebrations, and historical events within the community and state.
- SS24.2.13a
Research and explain the importance of individual founders and significant figures who shaped the nation.
- SS24.K.3
Identify and explain symbols, customs, influential individuals, and celebrations associated with the home, school, community, state, and nation.
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