Cracking the Code: Enduring Issues in Social Studies

TUESDAYS WITH EE 19 May 2015

Meagen Farrell

Meagen FarrellTeacher Trainer

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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:

What is The Great Conversation?

Test Prep vs. Conversation

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

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?

What enduring social issue...?

What enduring social issue...?

What enduring social issue...?

What enduring social issue...?

Enduring Issues on the HSE Tests

HSE Test Examples

GED25 minute extended response

Make an argument about an enduring issue in response to a quote and a passage.

TASCCivics & Government

Evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues regarding personal, economic and political rights.

HiSETInterpret and Apply

Make evidence-based inferencesInfer unstated relationships

Extend conclusions to related phenomena

Take Time to Read!

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.

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?

Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thinking

1. Take Time to Read the Prompt!

2. What Enduring Social Issue...?

3. Have a Conversation

4. Practice Proper Citation

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