Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Social Studies

Grade 6

Content Standard: History
C. Historical Inquiry, Analysis, and Interpretation

Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.
Common Assessment(s):
Performance Indicators

Students will be able to:

Essential Elements
(Specific grade level learning objectives)
Suggested Performance Activities

Suggested Classroom Assessments
Vocabulary

3. Use information from a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify and support a point of view on a controversial historical topic.

Ancient Egypt through primary and secondary sources.

Point of view:

  • slaves
  • pharaohs

Students will be given a variety of primary and secondary sources to compare and contrast and support points of view of a selected controversial historical topic.

Students will create a primary and secondary source that demonstrate an understanding of a point of view on an historical topic.

primary source
secondary source
controversial

4. Identify ethnic and cultural perspectives missing from an historical account and describe these points of view.

Points of view:

  • slaves
  • pharaohs

In groups, students will be assigned an ethnic or cultural perspective. Through discussion students will identify missing points of view.

Each group will collaboratively develop a product (poster, essay, etc.) that demonstrates an understanding of missing perspectives.

ethnic
cultural
perspective
point of view