Civic Literacy Essay – Week 20, Regents US History

Civic Literacy Essay for Week 20, Regents US History

Unequal Power Relationships: finding a place for marginalized groups in society

This Civic Literacy essay is based on a set of primary source documents. The question is designed to test a student's ability to work with historical documents. In analyzing the documents, students consider the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented. The language and images used in a document may reflect the historical context of the time in which it was created.

A recommended teaching practice for New York State Regents US History and Government is to train students to write one of these each ten weeks or so through the year. Teachers preparing students for the New York State Regents will find it difficult to train students to write these well if they wait until the end of the year! Each of the civic literacy essays authored by Innovation Assessments LLC are designed for different points in the year such that documents come from historical context usually under study.

Here is a blog article about teaching document-based essays that will be helpful.

Historical Context of this essay prompt: Throughout United States history, many constitutional and civic issues have been debated by Americans. These debates have resulted in efforts by individuals, groups, and governments to address these issues. These efforts have achieved varying degrees of success. One of these constitutional and civic issues is finding a place for marginalized groups in society. Marginalized populations are groups and communities that experience discrimination and exclusion (social, political and economic) because of unequal power relationships across

economic, political, social and cultural dimensions.

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Civic literacy essay formatted like the New York State US History and Government Regents exam.

Grading rubric on a scale of 100 as commonly used in New York State high schools.

Passcodes to online video review lessons for students.