Young historians use the SOAPS (Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject) method of questioning to determine the historical value of primary source documents. The third in a series of five lessons that model for learners how historians use primary source documents to explain events.

Concepts

the texas revolution, primary sources, primary source analysis

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask class members to consider how the same events my be seen from a non Anglo Texan perspective

Classroom Considerations

• The lessons in the series are designed to be presented in order

Pros

• All the documents in the five-lesson series are primary sources related to Mary Maverick

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.6.1 RI.7.1