Appendix: Implementing Common Core Standards
This unit incorporates some of the California Common Core Standards38 that address skills students should gain in grades 9-10. The following are fro m the framework.
Reading Standards for Literacy and History/Social Sciences 6-12:
RH.9-10. 2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
This history lesson specifically gives students access to secondary sources which cover historical events.
RH.9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
Students are looking at T.E. Lawrence and evaluating his work and view of the Arab world in comparison with what Arab scholars and Arab leaders at the time may have considered accurate.
RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.
Through the use of secondary source historical information students will be able to evaluate the point of view and accuracy of T.E. Lawrence’s account of the Arab Revolution.
RH.9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Students will use the Orientalism perspective to analyze the way in which information is shared in both the primary and secondary sources.
This unit also addresses the following focus questions found in the California Department of Education’s Common Core Curriculum Framework for History-Social Studies39.
How did the Europeans justify the expansion of their colonial empires?
How did colonization work?
How was imperialism connected to race and religion?
What were the consequences of World War I for nations, ethnic groups and people?
How did agreements dating from the WWI and post-war periods impact the map of the Middle East?
What were the effects of World War I upon ordinary people?
This unit allows students to review content related to imperialism and World War I.
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