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