Name: "On Nationalism": Regents Global 10 CRQ +Video Lessons
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Regents Global 10 CRQ "On Nationalism" +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:

Imperial proclamation, Jan 1871, German Empire

Program of Count Cavour
Reflections on the formation and distributions of wealth, Turgot
Sieyes: What is the Third Estate?

Passcode Lessons:

Revolution and Nationalism part 1

Revolution and Nationalism part 2

Revolution and Nationalism part 3

Revolution and Nationalism part 4

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.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Explain the historical context that led to a specific historical development, using a primary-source document as evidence.
Evaluate a primary source's reliability by considering its authorship, purpose, audience, and time and place.
Identify a turning point or cause-effect relationship connecting two related primary-source documents.

Teaching tips

Assign Set 1 (Germany/Italy) and Set 2 (French Revolution) separately, since each is a self-contained two-document exercise with its own four constructed-response prompts.
Use the suggested-answers document to model what a strong reliability-evaluation response looks like before students attempt it independently, since that prompt is the most open-ended in each set.
Distribute the video-lesson passcodes (parts 1-4) as a review layer before or after the written CRQ sets, since those lessons carry their own auto-corrected embedded questions separate from this document.

Skills covered

Historical context analysis — students explain the circumstances behind German/Italian unification and 18th-century French feudalism using primary-source excerpts.
Source reliability evaluation — students judge each document's reliability based on authorship, purpose, audience and time/place, then justify their reasoning.
Cross-document reasoning — students identify a turning point or cause-effect relationship that connects the two documents within the same set.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the two document sets on the same historical topic, or different ones?

Different but related. Set 1 covers the unification of Germany and Italy; Set 2 covers the French Revolution and the 18th-century defense of feudalism — both tied to the same Enlightenment/Revolution/Nationalism framework.