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Rounding the Bases

Overview

Students use primary sources focused on baseball to explore the American experience regarding race and ethnicity.

Objectives Students will:
  • analyze historical images;
  • create an original argument using primary sources;
  • pose historical questions after analyzing and reflecting on primary sources;
  • employ search strategies to obtain primary historical data from targeted collections of sources;
  • place the developments of race and ethnicity in America in historical context;
  • practice cooperative decision-making and discussion skills; and
  • demonstrate proper bibliographic citation of electronic resources.
Time Required Five class periods.
Recommended Grade Level 9-12
Curriculum Fit The unit should be used when studying the World War II era and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.
Standards McREL 4th Edition Standards & Benchmarks

Historical Understanding
Standard 2. Understands the historical perspective

Language Arts
Standard 4. Gathers and uses information for research purposes
Standard 9. Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

US History
Standard 17. Understands massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity
Standard 22. Understands how the United States changed between the post-World War I years and the eve of the Great Depression
Standard 29. Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties
Standard 31. Understands economic, social and cultural developments in the contemporary United States

Rounding the Bases

Standards Correlation

Correlation with National Standards for Social Studies from the National Council for Social Studies - United States History -- Grades 5-12

  • Era 6, 1870-1900: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.
Resources Used See list of resources.

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