People, Power & the Human Story

Objectives

• D08.S1.06.01 Explain the difference between a primary source and a secondary source and use each to describe one past event.
• D08.S1.06.02 Describe change and continuity over a period of about a hundred years in one society, giving an example of each.
• D08.S2.06.01 Explain how knowledge is passed from one generation to the next through oral tradition, written records, or apprenticeship, using examples from different peoples.
• D08.S2.06.02 Describe how a technology or idea spread between cultures and changed as it moved from place to place.
• D08.S3.06.01 Explain how people shape their environment and how the environment shapes people, using specific examples.
• D08.S3.06.02 Analyze how the movement of plants, animals, and people between world regions changed environments and societies, using one historical example.
• D08.S4.06.01 Explain what power is, who holds it in a community or society, and how it can be used fairly or unfairly.
• D08.S4.06.02 Describe a movement for rights or freedom, such as a struggle against colonial rule or for equal treatment, and what its people did.

Essential questions

• How do primary and secondary sources tell a past event, and what changes and what stays the same over a hundred years?
• How do knowledge, technology, place, power, and movements for rights shape the human story?

Big ideas

• Historians weigh primary and secondary sources and trace change and continuity over about a hundred years.
• Knowledge passes across generations, ideas and technologies spread and change, people and environments shape each other, and power and movements for rights mark the human story.

Lessons

1. 1 Primary and Secondary Sources: Two Ways to See the Past 50 minutes
2. 2 Using Each Kind: Describe One Past Event 50 minutes
3. 3 Change and Continuity Over a Hundred Years 50 minutes
4. 4 Finding Change and Continuity in Another Society 50 minutes
5. 5 Knowledge Across Generations: Oral, Written, Apprenticeship 50 minutes
6. 6 How a Technology Spread and Changed: The Journey of Paper 50 minutes
7. 7 People Shape the Land, the Land Shapes People 50 minutes
8. 8 Plants, Animals, and People on the Move 55 minutes
9. 9 What Is Power, and Who Holds It? 50 minutes
10. 10 Power Used Fairly or Unfairly 50 minutes
11. 11 A Movement for Freedom: The People of India 50 minutes
12. 12 The Human Story, and Our Part in It 60 minutes

Assessment plan

Observation of source comparison, change-and-continuity reasoning, and power-and- rights discussion; a primary-versus-secondary source note, a hundred-year change- and-continuity note, a knowledge-transmission example, and a rights-movement note as portfolio artifacts.