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Goal: Build a timeline and evaluate whether two proposed causes are supported by the supplied sources.

Before this: Order events on a timeline; distinguish a source from an inference.

Try together: Together evaluate “Year 4 must have caused Year 5 because it came first.” Identify the missing reasoning.

Goal: Integrate a network diagram and secondary-source summary to explain two kinds of exchange and one model limitation.

Before this: Read a simple network diagram and evaluate the scope of a claim.

Try together: Discuss why “One road carried only silk directly from one endpoint to another” conflicts with the overview.

Goal: Explain how role shapes emphasis in two accounts and identify evidence needed to test both.

Before this: Compare source perspective and separate an illustrative model from an authentic quotation.

Try together: Together evaluate whether a production increase disproves the worker’s account.

Goal: Identify a claim’s useful contribution, two omissions and a more complete research question.

Before this: Distinguish a motive, a means and a consequence in an explanation.

Try together: Discuss the difference between explaining a stated motive and endorsing the action it motivated.

Goal: Distinguish trigger, prior condition and later event, then evaluate an overly simple causal account.

Before this: Read a timeline and evaluate multi-causal explanations.

Try together: Together explain why Germany’s August invasion cannot be the cause of the earlier June assassination in this proposed sequence.

Goal: Write an accurate summary of two founding dates and explain what the founding account can and cannot demonstrate.

Before this: Distinguish an intended purpose from an observed result; summarize a source accurately.

Try together: Discuss whether knowing an organization’s goal is useful even when it does not establish success.