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Grade 2 History and Social Studies Week 14 | Teacher Guide

Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

WEEK 14 • TEACHER GUIDE AND ANSWER KEY • DAYS 66–70

Read each lesson aloud with the child and model the worked example before practice. Do not show this key during practice. Accept oral, drawn or written answers where the child cannot yet write the whole answer. On Day 70, read aloud if needed but give no hints.

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Day 66: George Washington: Power Belongs to the People

Standard: SS24.2.13; SS24.2.13a

Practice record: Washington timeline, printed on the Week 14 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Who was the first President of the United States? Worked answer: George Washington.

  1. He gave his army command back to Congress and went home.
  2. 8 years (1797 – 1789 = 8).
  3. He did not try to keep power for himself. By stepping down, he let the people choose a new leader in an election. Accept any answer that says the people, not one leader, decide who leads.

Teaching note: Connect to Week 7: voting is how the people choose leaders. Washington’s choice made peaceful changes of leaders a habit.

Day 67: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin: Equal Rights

Standard: SS24.2.13; SS24.2.13a

Practice record: Two founding documents, printed on the Week 14 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: In what year was the Declaration of Independence written? Worked answer: 1776.

  1. Thomas Jefferson.
  2. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
  3. It means a government’s power comes from the people agreeing to it, not from a king or one ruler taking it. Accept any answer that says the power comes from the people.

Teaching note: Tell the child plainly that when these words were written, the promise of equal rights was not yet kept for everyone, including enslaved people. Day 68 shows how Americans kept working to make the promise true.

Day 68: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: Liberty and Free Speech

Standard: SS24.2.13; SS24.2.13a

Practice record: Lincoln and Douglass, printed on the Week 14 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: What was the name of Frederick Douglass’s first newspaper? Worked answer: The North Star.

  1. 1863.
  2. Frederick Douglass.
  3. Free speech let Douglass speak and print his ideas about ending slavery so many people could read and hear them. Without it, he could have been silenced. Accept any answer about sharing ideas to work for freedom or equal rights.

Teaching note: Keep the focus on what each man did and the principle it shows. The Civil War is named but not described in detail at this grade.

Day 69: Figures with Alabama Ties

Standard: SS24.2.13; SS24.2.13a

Practice record: Three Alabamians, printed on the Week 14 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: In what Alabama town was Helen Keller born? Worked answer: Tuscumbia.

  1. At Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee.
  2. Equal justice under law (and peaceful civic action).
  3. Example: Carver taught poor farmers how to restore their soil and grow better crops, and he brought lessons to their farms with the Jesup Wagon. Helping many families shows serving the common good. Accept a correct example for either person that links what they did to the principle.

Teaching note: Help the child choose a trusted source, such as a library book or a National Park Service page. Use the observation checklist below.

Hands-on task observation checklist (Make a research card). Check each item you observe. Four or five items shows the child met the task goal; two or three means repeat the task with support.

  • ☐ Child chose one of the three figures.
  • ☐ Child found a fact with an adult’s help.
  • ☐ Child named a democratic principle.
  • ☐ Child gave evidence of what the person did.
  • ☐ Child wrote the name of the source.

Day 70: Independent Check: National Figures and Principles

Standard: SS24.2.13; SS24.2.13a

Practice record: Match the figure, printed on the Week 14 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Which figure gave his army command back to Congress in 1783? Worked answer: George Washington.

  1. Frederick Douglass.
  2. Abraham Lincoln.
  3. Example: Thomas Jefferson shows equal rights; he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. Accept any figure with a matching principle and evidence from the lessons.

Teaching note: Independent check: read aloud if needed, but give no hints.

Sources

American Battlefield Trust, First in Peace: George Washington During 1783-1789 (resigned his commission December 23, 1783; President 1789 to 1797) | National Archives Foundation, The Charters of Freedom (Jefferson wrote the first drafts of the Declaration) | National Constitution Center, Benjamin Franklin: Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution | National Archives, press release on the Emancipation Proclamation (issued January 1, 1863) | Library of Congress, Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency (Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863) | Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874 (The North Star first issued December 3, 1847) | National Park Service, Frederick Douglass | Encyclopedia of Alabama, Helen Keller (born in Tuscumbia in 1880; graduated from college in 1904) | National Park Service, George Washington Carver (Tuskegee Institute; the Jesup Wagon) | National Archives, press release: arrest records of Rosa Parks (charged with refusing to obey orders of bus driver) | Encyclopaedia Britannica, Montgomery bus boycott (December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956; 381 days)

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