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To Do or Not To Do: Truman's Recognition of Israel

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Course(s)
Required Time Frame
Two 50 minute classroom meetings
Grade Level(s)
Lesson Abstract
To assist students in developing skills that will enable them to analyze primary documents and political cartoons which will help them develop an understanding of the different perspectives of Truman's recognition of Israel.
Description

This lesson can be assigned to individual students and/or used as a cooperative learning endeavor. Students will utilize the Internet to access links a variety of primary and secondary documents.

Rationale (why are you doing this?)
  • To assist students in developing skills that will enable them to analyze primary documents and political cartoons which will help them develop an understanding of the different perspectives of Truman’s recognition of Israel
  • To introduce the Stanford  History Educational Group’s Reading Like A Historian teaching strategies to help students investigate historical questions by employing the following reading strategies
    • Sourcing
  • Contextualizing
  • Corroborating
  • Close reading
Lesson Objectives - the student will
  • Develop skills to think and read historical information like a historian
  • Analyze written documents and political cartoons via individual and cooperative learning activities
  • Do research of pertinent Internet websites that provide different perspectives of the creation of the state of Israel via political cartoons and written documents
District, state, or national performance and knowledge standards/goals/skills met

SS 12.4.2 (US) Students will analyze and evaluate the impact of people, events, ideas, and symbols upon

US history using multiple types of sources.

SS 12.4.2.c (US) Analyze and evaluate the appropriate uses of primary and secondary sources

SS 12.4.3 (US) Students will analyze and evaluate historical and current events from multiple perspectives

SS 12.4.4.a (US) Compare and evaluate contradictory historical narratives of Twentieth-Century U.S. History

through determination of credibility, contextualization, and corroboration

SS 12.4.5.b (US) Obtain, analyze, evaluate, and cite appropriate sources for research about Twentieth-Century

U.S. History, incorporating primary and secondary sources (e.g., Cite sources using a prescribed format)

SS 12.4.5.c (US) Gather historical information about the United States (e.g., document archives, artifacts,

newspapers, interviews)

SS 12.4.5.d (US) Present an evaluation of historical information about the United States (e.g., pictures, posters,

oral/written narratives and electronic presentations)

 

Common Core

Key Ideas and Details

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.3 Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Craft and Structure

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.5 Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6 Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.8 Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
Secondary materials (book, article, video documentary, etc.) needed

Booth, Amber. Parkway South High School. Who decides a nation?  Student guide sheet.

http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/tahg/eah/high/Lessons/Who%20Decides%20a%20Nation%27s%20Sovereignty.pdf

Israel’s Legal Borders Under International Law

            http://seekingtruth.co.uk/israel_borders.htm

Library of Congress.  American Memory Collection. Teachers. Teacher’s Guides and Analysis Tool

            http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html

Library of Congress.  American Memory Collections.  Teachers.  Using Primary Sources

            http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/

Pro Con.org Israel   Israeli-Palestinian conflict

http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/

Samia Shoman, Ed.D. Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Dual Narratives

          https://teachpalestine.org/teaching-materials/curriculum/samia-shoman/        

Stanford History Education Group.  Reading Like A Historian

            http://sheg.stanford.edu/

The Middle East in Transition: Question for U.S. Policy.  December, 2011.  The Choices Program. Watson Institute for International Studies. Brown U.

 WWW.CHOICES.EDU

Primary sources needed (document, photograph, artifact, diary or letter, audio or visual recording, etc.) needed

About.com Political Humor

            http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/middleeast/ig/Middle-East-Cartoons/

Avalon Project.  Yale Law School.  19th and 20th Century Documents

            http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Bing. Creation of Israel State Political Cartoons

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=creation+of+israel+state+political+cartoons&qpvt=creation+of+israel+state+political+cartoons&FORM=IGRE

                                    and

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=creation+of+israel+state+political+cartoons&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=creation+of+israel+state+political+cartoons&sc=1-43&sp=-1&sk=

Cartoons from the Arab World

            http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm

Israel and Palestine Political Cartoons

https://www.google.com/search?q=israel+and+palestine+political+cartoons