CRAFT OF THE HISTORIAN
" An educated person is one who has learned that
information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often
false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious -
just dead wrong. "
LESSON 1 Course Guidelines and Expectations Today, students will be given a written summary of the course's expectations and overview. Students will be expected to have this handout signed by a parent or guardian and return the document at the start of Lesson 2. Students will also be given a reading assignment that will be relevant for a baseline assessment that will be given during Lesson 2. This assessment will be in the form of a released CAPT Interdisciplinary Writing Response and it will be graded. LESSON 2 CAPT Interdisciplinary Writing Response: Students will develop a written response to a prompt that has been created in conjunction with the reading assignment given during Lesson 1. This assessment will be graded using the CAPT Rubric seen above. LESSON 3 Through the class activities students will be analyzing and interpreting the effects Perspective / Bias have on our understanding of other cultures as well as the study of history. LESSON 4 Ground Zero Mosque Articles (2) LESSON 5 Weak Thesis Statements Handout Students will work on writing effective thesis statements and learn what the characteristics are of good thesis statements. LESSONS 6 & 7 Interdisciplinary Writing Outline
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