The document discusses blending Common Core literacy skills with content-specific skills in history education. It argues that history students should read and write like historians by examining sources, considering multiple accounts and perspectives, using evidence to support claims, and understanding historical context. Some examples are provided of how to incorporate primary sources and textual analysis into history lessons. The presentation encourages adapting current instruction to have students communicate findings using tools like Evernote and ePUBs.

1. History and
the Common
21st century
Core quality
instruction
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
ESSDACK
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2. 21st century school?
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3. “the cogent reasoning and
use of evidence essential to
responsible citizenship in a
democratic republic.”
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4. 21st century student?
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5. independent
deep content
knowledge
comprehend &
critique
value evidence
appropriate tech &
digital media understand
perspectives
& culture
adapt
communication
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6. the problem?
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7. what does it look like to blend
Common Core and content
specific literacy?
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8. the solution
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9. . . . not so
much reading &
writing across
the curriculum
but reading &
writing within
the discipline
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10. how are
history students
different than
historians?
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11. kids see
history as
answers
historians see
history as
problems
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12. "The one practice we all
engage in as historians is
reading and writing."
Hendrik Hartog
Princeton University
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13. it’s not an add-on, it’s
a “build-on”
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14. examine source
information
read multiple accounts
& perspectives
use evidence to
support claims
analyze primary
sources
understand historical
context
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16. examine source
information
read multiple accounts
& perspectives
use evidence to
support claims
analyze primary
sources
understand historical
context
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17. who won the battle of
the Little Big Horn?
how do you know?
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21. Connell, Evan S. Son of
the Morning Star:
Custer and the Little
Bighorn
Brown, Dee. Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee:
An Indian History of the
American West
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22. examine source
information
read multiple accounts
& perspectives
use evidence to
support claims
analyze primary
sources
understand historical
context
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23. “Has anything ever threatened the existence of
this Union save and except this very institution of
slavery? What is it that we hold most dear
amongst us? Our own liberty and prosperity. What
has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity,
save and except this institution of slavery?
If this is true, how do you propose to improve the
condition of things by enlarging slavery—by
spreading it out and making it bigger? You may
have a cancer upon your person, and not be able
to cut it out, lest you bleed to death; but surely it is
no way to cure it, to engraft it and spread it over
your whole body.”
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24. “I will say that I am not, nor ever have been in
favor of bringing about in any way the social and
political equality of the white and black races, that
I am not, not ever have been, in favor of making
voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them
to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people;
and I will say in addition to this that there is a
physical difference between the white and black
races which I believe will forever forbid the two
races from living together on terms of social and
political equality.
. . . and I as much as any other man am in favor of
having the superior position assigned to the white
race.”
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25. Frederick Douglass. What
to the Slave is the Fourth
of July?
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26. examine source
information
read multiple accounts
& perspectives
use evidence to
support claims
analyze primary
sources
understand historical
context
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27. what really happened
at Lexington Green?
can you prove it?
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28. examine source
information
read multiple accounts
& perspectives
use evidence to
support claims
analyze primary
sources
understand historical
context
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30. Tim O’Brien. The
Things They
Carried
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31. examine source
information
read multiple accounts
& perspectives
use evidence to
support claims
hnology primary
& use tec analyze
sources
understand historical
context
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32. Evernote
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33. teacher &
student ePUBs
Wikipedia:
Create a Book
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34. next steps?
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35. best practices in
discipline
identify possible texts
adapt current
instruction
communicate with
ELA
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36. Elbow partner?
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37. “In times of change the
learners shall inherit the
earth, while the learned find
themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no
longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
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38. have more questions?
contact:
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
socialstudiescentral.com
historytech.wordpress.com
View presentations at:
slideshare.net/glennw98
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