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Questioning Dominant Narratives Through Untold Histories
Critique traditional dominant narratives by integrating oral histories, marginalized viewpoints, and counter-narratives that challenge standard historical accounts.
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Historical Inquiry, Bias, and Counter-Narratives
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Critically analyze primary and secondary sources, identify bias and distortion, question dominant historical narratives, and construct multi-perspective historical explanations.
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8.30Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesSynthesize information and data to construct an account of historical events that includes multiple sources and varied perspectives.
8.31Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesAnalyze intersecting identities and relationships within the living histories of ethnic groups such as individuals who are American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian or Americans of African, Asian, Pacific Island, Chicano, Latino, or Middle Eastern descent), religious groups, and other traditionally marginalized groups (women, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, and individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender) in the United States.
8.32Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesCritique and analyze information for point of view, historical context, distortion, bias propaganda and relevance including sources with conflicting information in order to question the dominant narratives in history.