Teacher Commentary

I give a short mini-lesson explaining what frameworks are and that the three main categories we will focus on in our studies in history will be social, political, and economic. I give simple definitions of each. Social has to do with people and interactions between people. Political has to do with government and the actions of politicians. Economic has to do with money or property. Then I ask students to look at the list of causes on the board and talk about whether they are social, political, or economic. I expect them to see that most or all of the causes they have identified are social because the text set focuses on social causes.

The texts in our text set mostly focus on the social causes, so students will go over the list and identify that most/all of them are social. However, we also talk about how economic and political factors probably relate, but aren’t in the text set.