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Applying the SOAPS Method of Analyzing Historical Documents Lesson PlanApplying the SOAPS Method of Analyzing Historical Documents Lesson Plan
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Briscoe Center for American History
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4th - 7th
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Applying the SOAPS Method of Analyzing Historical Documents

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Young historians use the SOAPS (Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject) method of questioning to determine the historical value of primary source documents. The third in a series of five lessons that model for learners how historians use primary source documents to explain events.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the texas revolution, primary sources, primary source analysis

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Ask class members to consider how the same events my be seen from a non Anglo Texan perspective

Classroom Considerations

  • The lessons in the series are designed to be presented in order

Pros

  • All the documents in the five-lesson series are primary sources related to Mary Maverick

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.6.1 RI.7.1

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