
Introducing Evidence Logs
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Language
English — USSubject
- History
- Social Studies
Grade
6–8Duration
One 50-min class period- The Holocaust
Overview
About This Assessment
After students have completed Lesson 8: The Weimar Republic, it is an appropriate time to revisit and revise the working thesis statements they drafted in the initial assessment step Introducing the Writing Prompt. At that time, students were introduced to the first part of the writing prompt, which did not include the specific historical events they are studying in this unit, and they developed an initial position for an argumentative essay in response to a question about the importance and impact of choices in history. Now that students have learned about the Weimar Republic, they will reflect on the writing prompt a second time by adding this historical lens. It is important that students keep the materials for the essay (journal reflections, evidence logs, writing handouts) in a safe place, because they will refer back to them over the course of the unit in preparation to write the essay assessment.
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