Oklahoma Social Studies USG.P.2.2.B

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Social Studies Practices

The Standard

USG.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
USG.P.2.2: Develop skills which demonstrate an understanding of historical events and the people who shaped our history.

Analyze complex and interacting factors that influence multiple perspectives during different historical eras and contemporary events.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify different views of a past or recent event. They explain how pressures such as health risks, wages, and trust in officials work together to shape those views. They use evidence rather than assuming everyone in a group thought alike.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can compare responses to public closures in 1918 and 2020. They can use source details to explain how two pressures shaped each view and say when the evidence does not reveal what someone believed.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume everyone in one era held the same view, or that a person's job tells them exactly what that person believed. They may treat a closure notice as proof that the public supported it.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: “Compare a 1918 theater closure and a 2020 school closure. How might health risks and lost wages shape a nurse's and an hourly worker's views? What evidence would you need to check your claims?”

Lesson moves

Print four role cards for workers in 1918 and 2020; students use yarn to connect each person's health risks and wages to possible views.
Use the role cards to write how wages and health risks might shape a 1918 shopkeeper's and a 2020 nurse's views.
Play factor match: read four claims about 1918 and 2020 closures; teams match each to two influences and explain their choices.
Bring a school board agenda item on phone rules; students name two affected groups and explain how safety and class time shape their views.

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