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United States History

Suggested grades 10–11 · Unit 3: Migration and Civil Rights

Evaluate Explanations of the Great Migration

Assess a one-cause explanation against an official historical overview and a clearly invented individual model.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Evaluate Explanations of the Great Migration
Preview lesson: Evaluate Explanations of the Great Migration

Goal: Compare explanations for migration, identify their evidentiary limits and write a qualified multi-causal account.

Before this: Distinguish aggregate patterns from individual motives and evaluate competing explanations.

Try together: Together explain why finding one authentic wage-focused letter would not establish a universal motive.

Supporting literacy connectionRH.11-12.3Grades 11–12
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United States History

Suggested grades 10–11 · Unit 3: Migration and Civil Rights

Distinguish a Civil Rights Law from Its Outcomes

Use the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a source for legal change without assuming all later outcomes.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Distinguish a Civil Rights Law from Its Outcomes
Preview lesson: Distinguish a Civil Rights Law from Its Outcomes

Goal: Form a historical claim linking enactment and implementation and identify the evidence needed to assess it.

Before this: Analyze source purpose and distinguish enactment from enforcement.

Try together: Discuss why “A policy changed” and “Every experience changed immediately” are different historical claims.

Supporting literacy connectionRH.11-12.9Grades 11–12
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