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For each of the Student Social Studies Practices below, describe a time in your life when you used that practice outside of a social studies class.

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This pre-assessment analysis sheet is meant to accompany the New Visions Global History Curriculum pre-assessments for 9th and 10th grade. The purpose of this sheet is to guide teachers in analyzing student work to help them determine the best next steps for students to improve their writing.

The purpose of this task is to assess students' writing skills in general, and specifically their ability to use documents to compose a well constructed response given a Regents-like prompt aligned to the NEW Global II Exam. 

Assessment Security and Access

We have restricted access to assessments to EDUCATORS ONLY. 

If you click on the "Open in Google Docs" button below and can view the document, then you already have access.

If you do not have access to the assessments, please fill out the form linked here. 

You will need to provide your official school email address AND a Google email address. In some cases, these will be the same email account. You will only need to fill the form out once to gain access to all of the assessments and teacher materials in the curriculum.

After you fill out the form, you will receive notification that you have been added to a Google Groupcalled "New Visions Social Studies Assessments Access." Once you receive that notification, you can access all of the assessments through the New Visions Social Studies Curriculum website, but you must be logged into the Google account you provided in the form to view the assessments. 

We will try to respond to all access requests within 72 hours. We are sorry if this delay causes any inconvenience. 

Given two sources from the lunchroom fight,
Identify each as either a primary or a secondary source
Explain why the source is primary or secondary

Given a source from the lunchroom fight:
Annotate the source using the annotation guide provided

Source the source by answering the following questions:
Who wrote this?
Why was it written?
What is the author's perspective?
How is this source useful evidence in determining what happened during the lunchroom fight?
How is this source not useful evidence in determining what happened during the lunchroom fight?

Close read the source by answering the questions: From this author's perspective, who started the lunchroom fight? Why does the author believe that?

Corroborate sources from the lunchroom fight to describe what happened during the lunchroom fight.

Contextualize the lunchroom fight by describing what happened in the town and school before the fight that led it.

Read through statements related to the lunchroom fight, then categorize each statement as a claim, evidence that supports that claim, or reasoning that supports the evidence.

Explain what an enduring issue is. 
Identify an enduring issue and explain its significance.