Grade 8 Fall — The Long Road to the Civil War, the War Itself from Multiple Perspectives, Reconstruction as Betrayed Promise, and the Industrial-Gilded Age (United States 1850-1900)
History · HIS
G8
hist.g8.f.his.nine_question_source_card_q9_lost_cause_detection
Apply MG-7 SOURCE CARD extended with NEW Q9 LOST-CAUSE-DETECTION — distinguish primary-source evidence of slavery as Civil War cause from Lost Cause mythological constructions
Use the full 9-question source card on each primary-source encounter; specifically identify and refuse Lost Cause framing per Blight 2001 + Cox 2003 + Domby 2020 + SPLC 2019.
Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
45
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
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hist.g7.s.his.eight_question_source_card_mg7
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Successors
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hist.g8.s.his.modern_source_analysis
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Common misconceptions
- Treating Lost Cause primary-source artifacts (UDC monument inscriptions + early 20th-c textbooks) as neutral evidence — they are propaganda, not testimony
- Confusing 'primary source' with 'true source' — secession declarations are primary sources of WHITE SOUTHERN POLITICAL ELITES' stated reasons for secession