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The study of history requires
students to critically analyze primary source documents, identify themes, develop personal
perspectives, and express their ideas in wiriting. Mr. Rich Mayorga, a history teacher at
Sunnyside High School in Tucson, and the Arizona teacher of the year, knows that these skills
are also necessary for success on the Advanced Placement examination. To assist students in
gaining these critical skills Mr. Mayorga has developed a simple, but powerful tool:
the five minute drill. The five minute drill provides students with an efficient way to gain
perspective on primary and secondary sources, and develop an outline to express their ideas
in writing.
In this lesson Mr. Mayorga leads his class through a careful anaysis of quotes from
primary source documents from the progressive era. The students are expected to analyze
primary sources to identify the central concepts and ideas from the progressive era and
the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt.
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