and I remember stuff pretty well — like what page Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was on in my seventh
grade history text, or the math page that had equation for figuring the surface area of a regular dodecahedron.
Not exact matches
25 - 30 minutes of
history in
grades 2 - 4, rooted in the exploration of primary source documents as well as informational and literary
texts to construct meaning about the past
RI.3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational
texts, including
history / social studies, science, and technical
texts, at the high end of the
grades 2 - 3
text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Each tested
grade,
grade 6,
grade 8, and
grade 11 (US
History), has several
texts available.
The
history / social studies sections lay out ways, by
grade, to analyze
texts, use primary sources and develop arguments and points of view.
At TEP, students learn
history through an emphasis on
text study - both primary and secondary... Each
grade level has one Social Studies teacher who teaches all students on that
grade level
In later
grades,
history, social studies, and science teachers will equip students with the skills needed to read and gain information from content - specific nonfiction
texts.
As Ruth Wattenberg explained in «Complex
Texts Require Complex Knowledge» (which was published in Fordham's Knowledge at the Core: Don Hirsch, Core Knowledge, and the Future of the Common Core), students in the elementary
grades have minimal opportunities to acquire knowledge in
history and science.
A greater emphasis on
history and science
texts and on informational
texts at all
grade levels must become commonplace.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational
texts, including
history / social studies, science, and technical
texts, at the high end of the
grades 2 — 3
text complexity band independently and proficiently.
An expectation for second - graders is that, by the end of the school year, they should be able to «read and comprehend informational
texts, including
history / social studies, science, and technical
texts, in the
grades 2 — 3
text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range» (RI.2.10.).