Name: CRQ: The World in 1750, Regents Global 10 + Video Lessons
SKU: 64cf829170399200139320cc
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: InStock

About this resource

What's inside this resource

CRQ: The World in 1750, Regents Global 10 + Video Lessons

This product is a constructed-response question (“CRQ”) in the format of the new New York State Regents examination in Global History and Geography.

The CRQ calls upon the student to examine historical sources (I use exclusively primary sources) by providing historical or geographic context, identifying the point of view, intended audience, or purpose of a document and then using the two documents in either compare-contrast, cause-effect analysis, or turning point identification. I advocate a strategy of assigning one CRQ in each unit of study in grades nine and ten without access to notes. I used this as one of the tests at the end of a unit of study. I would tell students about what kinds of documents would appear and what historical context they should be able to recall in advance. It is a challenging task for them.

The first challenge for novices is to understand what it means to provide context. Faced with the question “What is the historical context of this document?”, beginners will retell what the document says. The reason for this mistake is that, since they were little kids, teachers have asked them to relate what a text means to prove they understood it. [Read more at the Innovation blog]

Product includes:

1. Student version

2. Teacher version with suggested answers

3. Passcode to video lessons students can use to prepare the task.

Documents:

Excerpt, Akbar and the Jesuits, An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar
Excerpt, The Seclusion of Japan: 32 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, "CLOSED COUNTRY EDICT OF 1635" AND "EXCLUSION OF THE PORTUGUESE,1639",
Map, territories of Daimyos
Excerpt, Tokugawa Ieasu on Military Government and Social Order

Passcode Lessons:

10.2 World in 1750, part 1
The World in 1750, part 2
The World in 1750 part 3

About Innovation Passcodes

Passcodes let your students access selected lessons in my own virtual classroom at InnovationAssessments.com. No registration is required. Use the codes at InnovationAssessments.com/TestDrive.

What's included

Set 1: two documents on 16th-17th century European contact with Mughal India and Tokugawa Japan (a Jesuit missionary account and a 1639 exclusion proclamation), with historical-context, audience, reliability, and similarity/difference questions
Set 2: two documents on the Tokugawa social order (a 1570 map and an official four-class hierarchy description), with geographic-context, purpose, reliability, and cause-and-effect questions
A full-size document version of both sets for closer reading
A teacher scoring packet with point-value criteria for each question, tied to New York State Social Studies Performance Level Indicators
A separate 'Suggested Answers' document with a complete model response for every question in both sets
Passcodes granting access to three companion 'World in 1750' video lessons hosted on the publisher's own platform, with auto-corrected embedded questions

Resource types: Teacher Tools, Assessments

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Explain how historical context shaped a development described in a primary-source document
Identify the intended audience or purpose of a historical document and evaluate the document's reliability using that audience/purpose
Identify and explain a similarity, difference, or cause-and-effect relationship using evidence from two related documents
Support a constructed-response answer with specific textual evidence rather than general or unsupported claims

Teaching tips

Have students read the full-size document version alongside the shorter question pages, since the resource itself notes 'refer back to full sized versions of these questions if you need to'
Use the teacher scoring packet's point-value criteria to pre-teach students what separates a full-credit constructed response from a partial-credit one before they attempt Set 1
Assign the 'Suggested Answers' document only after students submit their own responses, since it provides a complete model answer rather than a bare answer key
The video-lesson passcodes require an account on the publisher's own platform (InnovationAssessments.com); confirm student access there before assigning that portion separately from the printable document sets

Skills covered

Historical contextualization — students explain how the circumstances surrounding a document shaped the development it describes.
Source evaluation — students identify a document's intended audience or purpose and use that to evaluate and justify the document's reliability.
Comparative document analysis — students identify and explain a similarity or difference between two related documents using evidence from both.
Cause-and-effect reasoning — students identify and explain a cause-and-effect relationship using evidence drawn from both documents in a set.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How does the teacher packet help with grading beyond just giving correct answers?

For the paired-document questions, it lays out exact scoring rules — for example, on the cause-and-effect question, credit is awarded per part depending on whether the identification (3a) and the explanation (3b) are each correct and properly related to each other, not just whether the final answer matches.

What historical documents are the two sets built around?

Set 1 pairs a Jesuit missionary's account of the Mughal court under Akbar with Tokugawa Iemitsu's 1639 proclamation excluding the Portuguese from Japan; Set 2 pairs a 1570 map with an official Tokugawa-era description of Japan's four-class social hierarchy.