Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.P.4.2.B

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Social Studies Practices

The Standard

MWH.P.4: Develop a variety of evidence-based written products designed for multiple purposes.
MWH.P.4.2: Engage in authentic research to acquire, refine, and share knowledge through written presentations and products.

Integrate quotes and summaries of research findings into written products while avoiding plagiarism.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.P.4.2

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use research findings to support a point in their writing. They put exact words in quotation marks, summarize other findings in their own words, and credit each source.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can write a paragraph about factory work that uses a brief quote and a summary to support a claim. A reader can tell which words came from the sources and find each source.
Common Misconceptions: Students may change a few words from a source and call it a summary. They may put a quote in quotation marks but leave out the source, or add a citation only at the end of the paper.
How to Assess It: Put this practice source on the board: “Of 80 mill workers surveyed, 52 reported injuries” (Lee, 2022). Ask students to write two sentences about mill safety, one quoting the finding and one summarizing it, with credit in both.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed mill report excerpt; have them highlight a quotable phrase, underline a finding to summarize, then draft a cited paragraph.
Post two versions of a mill report finding, one copied without credit and one summarized with credit; ask which could go in an essay.
Hand out six cards with copied, quoted, and summarized mill report lines; teams sort them into 'ready to use' and 'needs repair' piles.
Print a museum article about factory work; students draft a two-sentence exhibit caption with a credited quote and a credited summary.

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