World History
You gotta love Stanford University. Their education group has created a site called "Reading like a Historian." They created lessons for world history, each of which revolves around a central question, and uses primary documents to analyze the question. Their World History site is divided into three periods (ancient, medieval, and modern). Because I teach a section of World 9, I clicked on Ancient and downloaded a lesson on the Roman Emperor Augustus. Other lessons include the Dark Ages, the First Crusade, the Black Death, and Martin Luther. The modern period includes the Reign of Terror, Factory Life, Battle of Adwa, Battle of Somme, Appeasement, Invasion of Nanking, Nazi Propaganda, India Partition, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The lesson I downloaded asks students to figure out what kind of leader Augustus was and includes 6 documents, two of which are images. Students complete a chart with three questions for each document--based on the document, what kind of leader was Augustus, what evidence supports these reasons and is the document reliable. The documents are short and manageable for 9th graders.
The site is free but you have to register. This stuff is really great. Check it out. Below is a quick view of the Alexander lesson. My thanks to Jeff Feinstein for finding and sending me the link.
Augustus Lesson Plan
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World History
Reading Like a Historian: Stanford University
The lesson I downloaded asks students to figure out what kind of leader Augustus was and includes 6 documents, two of which are images. Students complete a chart with three questions for each document--based on the document, what kind of leader was Augustus, what evidence supports these reasons and is the document reliable. The documents are short and manageable for 9th graders.
The site is free but you have to register. This stuff is really great. Check it out. Below is a quick view of the Alexander lesson. My thanks to Jeff Feinstein for finding and sending me the link.
Augustus Lesson Plan
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- Expansion Of Early Islamic Empire: Reading Like A Historian
The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has an excellent lesson on the spread of the early Islamic empire with primary documents. You can see the documents below but you should go to the SHEG site to download the teacher material. If you have...
- Ibn Battuta Lesson From Stanford's Reading Like A Historian
Stanford University's History for Education Reading Like a Historian, released a new World History lesson on the travels of Ibn Battuta and the Muslim world in 1320. Students read from Battuta's travel book, the Rihla, and a secondary source...
- Reading Like A Historian: Sourcing A Document
...
- Primary Sources: Teaching Students To Think
Stanford University has created over 75 lessons for high schools based entirely on primary documents. No textbooks, no lectures. The lessons are all about diaries, journals, pictures, documents, speeches, songs and photographs. The lessons are all in...