Oklahoma Social Studies E.P.2.2.A

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Social Studies Practices

The Standard

E.P.2
Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
E.P.2.2
Develop skills which demonstrate an understanding of historical events and the people who shaped our history.
Gather and evaluate the usefulness of various formats of evidence for specific inquiry, analyzing the broader historical context, and assessing potential bias and credibility of sources.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · E.P.2.2

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What This Standard Means

What Students Need to Do

Students gather different kinds of sources to answer a focused historical question. They check who made each source, when it was made, and what it can show. They consider the history of the time, possible bias, and missing voices.

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a newspaper clipping, map, and survivor account about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a student chooses useful evidence for a question and explains why. They name each source's limits and explain how segregation shaped what was recorded.

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume a newspaper was neutral because it reported events at the time. They may dismiss a survivor account as biased while overlooking bias in the newspaper, or expect a map to show how residents felt.

How to Assess It

Show a 1921 Tulsa newspaper excerpt and a survivor account excerpt. Ask: Which better answers how Greenwood residents experienced the attack? Use one detail from each source and explain one limit of your choice.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs a 1921 Tulsa newspaper clipping, a Greenwood map, and a survivor account excerpt; have them label what each can and cannot answer.

  2. Ask partners: Why might a 1921 newspaper and a survivor account describe the Greenwood attack differently? Have them cite one phrase from each.

  3. Play Source Match: match questions about Greenwood's burned blocks and residents' experiences to a 1921 map, photo, or survivor account.

  4. Use a 1921 Greenwood map and a current Tulsa street map to plan a walking route, noting whose experiences neither map records.

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