This performance task requires students to compare text, sound files, and images to deepen their understanding of the efforts by African Americans to advance the Double V Campaign (victory over racism at war and at home) during WWII. A timeline helps students sequence and visualize the relative length of time between events. Anticipating a growing national emphasis on the use of text analysis, even before release of the Common Core, the Collaborative recruited teachers from its Teaching American History program to develop and field test primary source-based assessments.
Published on Mon, 05/04/2015
