1. Organizing & Analyzing The Past
Michelle Wagner Curriculum Design

2. Thinking Like A Historian
What are some ways historians organize and analyze events?
Pair
Think
Share

3. Ways To Organize & Analyze Events
Today’s Focus

4. Social Institutions
All human societies address basic needs in order to survive for more than one generation.

5. Social Institutions
Meeting these basic needs results in the creation of social institutions:
Economy
Government
Family
Education
Religion
Language
Important:
Although societies may vary in how they address these needs, all societies do address them.

6. Social Institutions
What would a group of people need in order to survive for at least 100 years (or for at least 3 generations)?
Generation:
The average it takes for people to grow up and produce their own offspring.

7. Social Institutions To Make A Living
Every society which has survived at least 3 generations has found a way to meet the following needs:
To Make A Living
Produce & Distribute Food
Establish Shelter

8. Social Institutions Law & Order
Every society which has survived at least 3 generations has found a way to meet the following needs:
Law & Order
Systems to protect themselves

9. Social Institutions Learning & Transmitting Culture
Every society which has survived at least 3 generations has found a way to meet the following needs:
Learning & Transmitting Culture

10. Social Institutions Shared Ideas & Beliefs
Every society which has survived at least 3 generations has found a way to meet the following needs:
Shared Ideas & Beliefs

11. Social Institutions Shared System Of Communication Self - Expression
Every society which has survived at least 3 generations has found a way to meet the following needs:
Shared System Of Communication
Self - Expression

12. Social Institutions Ways To Care For & Raise Children
Every society which has survived at least 3 generations has found a way to meet the following needs:
Ways To Care For & Raise Children

13. Let’s Discuss Needs of Societies
Conversation Line
Form 2 Lines
You will partner with the person facing you.
Partner 1 (everyone in a certain line) will talk for 2 minutes about the question.
Then partner 2 (everyone from the other line) will talk for 2 minutes on the question.
Remember: No Interrupting!

14. Conversation Line Discussion Prompts
Informational Card
Conversation Line Discussion Prompts
Are the ideas on this list truly needs? Why or why not?
Are these necessary elements of human culture or society? Why or why not?
Have we (2015 Americans) addressed these needs within our own culture? Explain.
Do we have additional needs in our society? Explain.

15. Debrief – Share Out
How was your thinking about needs of societies or social institutions challenged, modified or extended by the Conversation Line?
What did you notice about your thinking?
What did you notice about your answers?
Did you find yourself weaving in ideas you heard your partner mention, during your response?

16. Write down your number & your assigned need.
Quick Sketch
Let’s count – off (#1 - #6).
Write down your number & your assigned need.
Needs of Societies
To make a living, produce, and distribute food and shelter
Law and order or systems to protect each other
Learning and transmitting culture
Shared ideas and beliefs
Shared system of communication and self-expression
Ways to care for and raise children

17. Draw a quick sketch illustrating your assigned need.
(Include Examples)

18. Find Your Number Partners
Create a larger poster combining the most important ideas from your group’s Quick Sketches.
Take 10 Minutes…

19. Gallery Walk
With your number partners, visit each group’s poster (only 2 minutes / poster).
Discuss the elements / ideas included on each poster.
Each Group will leave 1 Post-It explaining either:
What you believe to be the most important aspect
What you believe should be added

20. Gallery Walk – Wrap Up Return to your group’s poster
Read Post-It Notes
Discuss what (if anything) you would change or add to your poster based on feedback.
Present your poster / need to the class by describing it in 3 sentences or less.

21. Applying our Knowledge
1st Read:
Follow along as I read “Life Among The Iroquois Nations”.
Your only job is to listen and try to determine what this text is trying to tell us.
2nd Read:
Independently read the text –
Talk To The Text (Note evidence showing each of the 6 Social Institutions)

22. Partner Think Aloud Partner 1:
Share what evidence you found regarding the 6 Social Institutions (page 1 only).
Partner 2:
Share what evidence you found regarding the 6 Social Institutions (page 2 only).

23. What other social institutions should we consider?
Wrap - Up
Social institutions are defined as long lasting patterns of meeting basic social needs.
What other social institutions should we consider?

24. Why do you think historians analyze societies?
Wrap - Up
Why do you think historians analyze societies?
Why do historians distinguish between long-lasting patterns and fleeting patterns?

25. Wrap - Up
How would you describe the relationship between social institutions and society?

26. Wrap - Up
How can comparing social institutions of several societies, during the same time period, help us better understand history?