Learning Goals
Students will be able to evaluate the reliability of primary and secondary sources about San Diego history using sourcing, contextualization, close reading, and lateral reading.
Students will be able to contextualize historic documents from San Diego and California using time period, place, authorship, audience, and purpose.
Students will be able to analyze the language, imagery, and claims in primary documents about California's Indigenous peoples, missions, land transfer, migration, and labor to interpret historical meaning.
Students will be able to compare differing accounts of the same historical event in San Diego and California by corroborating evidence across multiple sources.
Students will be able to explain examples of intersectionality, systems of oppression, resistance, decolonization, colonization, and racial triangulation in San Diego and California history.
Students will be able to investigate how geography, biology, and culture connect in San Diego communities through maps, local histories, and environmental evidence.
Students will be able to conduct and document respectful community interviews about San Diego family and neighborhood histories and integrate those narratives into historical interpretation.
Students will be able to write informative and explanatory historical paragraphs and essays that synthesize readings, visual materials, interview evidence, and their own interpretation of contested San Diego history.
Products
San Diego Research Notebook and Community Interview Record
Each student will maintain a research notebook that includes weekly source analyses, reliability checks, search strings, notes, and interview documentation. The notebook must show how the student developed questions, gathered evidence, and formed an evidence-based interpretation of one San Diego neighborhood or topic.
Neighborhood History of San Diego Book Chapter and Exhibition Presentation
Each team will create a polished chapter for the class History of San Diego book plus a short public presentation for the exhibition. The chapter must combine individual research, oral histories, historical context, geography/biology connections, and a defensible conclusion about community challenges and possible responses.
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