Standards, Knowledge, Skills, and Understandings

Understandings

Students will:

• understand that strategies for social change are similar across time and issues
• understand how they might apply lessons learned from a historic case study to an issue or challenge important to them today

Knowledge

Students will:

• recognize the relevant knowledge that can be gained from historical analysis and the ways in which such knowledge can empower social change
• articulate how change was implemented in the past based on analysis of primary sources
• identify and analyze strategies and practices used in the past that advanced the cause or stalled it
• document how knowledge of the strategies and practices identified during their historical analysis influences their understanding of change
• apply this understanding to a current movement related to social change and articulate what is similar and different about the two initiatives

Skills

Students will be able to:

• demonstrate an ability to make claim-evidence connections between primary and secondary sources and their interpretations
• map the relationship between different elements involved in social change, including policy, leadership, socio-cultural factors, and citizen activism
• balance different perspectives of those involved in social change by critically examining diverse pieces of archival evidence