Cracking the Code: Enduring Issues in Social Studies
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The document outlines a session led by Meagen Farrell aimed at preparing educators for high-stakes tests by fostering critical thinking through engaging discussions on enduring social issues. It emphasizes the importance of analyzing prompts, constructing evidence-based arguments, and drawing from historical contexts, such as President Truman's diary. Additionally, it encourages educators to design instructional strategies that promote critical engagement among students.
Cracking the Code: Enduring Issues in Social Studies
- 1. TUESDAYS WITH EE 19 May 2015 Meagen Farrell
- 3. 1. Engage in The Great Conversation 2. Recognize enduring issues on the HSE Tests 3. Consider instructional strategies that prepare students for critical thinking By the end of this session you will:
- 4. What is The Great Conversation?
- 5. Test Prep vs. Conversation
- 6. One Correct Answer Multiple Possible Answers Constructed Situations Real-Time Situations Select a Response Responses Can Change Process of Elimination Research and Exploration Preparing for an Event Participating in an Event High Stakes High Stakes Test Prep vs. Conversation
- 8. Talk about issues! 1. What is an enduring issue presented here? 2. What evidence indicates that is the enduring issue? 3. When else has this issue been discussed?
- 9. What enduring social issue...?
- 10. What enduring social issue...?
- 11. What enduring social issue...?
- 12. What enduring social issue...?
- 13. Enduring Issues on the HSE Tests
- 14. HSE Test Examples GED 25 minute extended response Make an argument about an enduring issue in response to a quote and a passage. TASC Civics & Government Evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues regarding personal, economic and political rights. HiSET Interpret and Apply Make evidence-based inferences Infer unstated relationships Extend conclusions to related phenomena
- 15. Take Time to Read!
- 16. Take Time to Read! The passage is an excerpt from the diary of President Harry S. Truman, written on July 25, 1945 after he had given the order to use the atomic bomb on Japan. In your response, develop an argument about how Truman's position in his diary reflects the continuing concern expressed in the quotation from Thomas Jefferson. Incorporate relevant and specific evidence from the passage and the quotation, as well as from your own knowledge of World War II, in particular the war against Japan in the Pacific, to support your analysis and your argument.
- 17. Social Studies asks you to take a stand about issues! 1. What is an enduring issue presented here? 2. What evidence indicates that is the enduring issue? 3. When else has this issue been discussed?
- 18. Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thinking
- 19. 1. Take Time to Read the Prompt!
- 20. 2. What Enduring Social Issue...?
- 21. 3. Have a Conversation
- 22. 4. Practice Proper Citation