Big Questions
What is a revolution and how do you know if/when you’re
in one?
Data
question: How do you identify when your world has shifted? How do you quantify a
revolution?
Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
Identify economic factors that impact working class
people and communities.
Make relevant comparisons across gender, race/ethnicity,
geography and time.
Assess the ways that quality and inequality of life are
measured and propose alternatives.
What are the elements of persuasive writing in the
interests of working people?
Data
question: How do you integrate meaningful quantitative data into a piece of
historical or journalistic writing?
Outcomes: Students will be able to:
Identify and locate data from a
variety of sources to make or critique an argument.
Use quantitative information to illustrate and strengthen an argument about a social issue.
Create new questions and identify
controversies about measurements and quantitative information.