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(02-14-2020, 02:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: What is your designated subjects to be teaching?  The reason I ask, is it seems that what you are trying to accomplish is an application of skills that should be learned through a variety of subjects learned in a well rounded education.  This such as logic and reasoning, typically associated with Mathematics and Science, critical reading skills that I generally associate with HS English curriculum, as well as some Government and Political stuff that I would associate with History and American Government classes.

I'm sure that the landscape of HS educational curriculum has changed as vastly as the world itself has, since I finished HS in '87.  So, I was just wondering.

The course is American Government, part of the Social Studies department. 

We practice a lot of these historical thinking skills (which, you're 100% correct, you see reinforced across the various content areas):

https://www.umbc.edu/che/arch/images/ARCH_Historical_Thinking%20Skills_Rubric_Secondary_rev_2-17-14.pdf

which also ties into the Stanford History Group's reading like a historian skills:

https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons

This also ties into the common core standards for social studies:

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RH/9-10/

Social studies is always an odd man out content area, but we're focusing a lot more on literacy skills you see in the other areas in addition to teaching history/civics.