Oklahoma Social Studies OKH.P.3.1.A
The Standard
- OKH.P.3
- Engage in critical, active reading of primary and secondary sources related to social studies concepts.
- OKH.P.3.1
- Comprehend, evaluate, and synthesize textual sources to acquire and refine knowledge in the social studies.
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, evaluating features such as author, date, and origin of information.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · OKH.P.3.1
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use specific lines from records made at the time and later accounts to support a claim about an Oklahoma event. They check who made each source, when it was made, and where its information came from.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student cites a precise passage and explains how it supports a claim. They use the author, date, and origin to explain what the source can and cannot tell us.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat an old article as automatically accurate or a recent account as automatically unbiased. They may quote a line without explaining it, or mistake a later summary for a record from the time.
How to Assess It
- Hand out a 1921 Tulsa newspaper clipping and a modern museum account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Ask students to cite one line from each and explain how its author, date, and origin affect what they can learn.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a 1921 Tulsa newspaper clipping and a modern museum account; have them highlight evidence and label author, date, and origin.
Ask, 'Which source better shows what readers were told in 1921?' Require one quoted line and a reason tied to publication date.
Play source match: students pair four claims about the Tulsa Race Massacre with supporting excerpts and reject one weak match.
Compare a local school board meeting record with a news report on the same vote; mark who wrote each and trace its claims.
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