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Review: Our Community, Past and Present

Describe change over time and avoid stereotypes about communities.

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Unit review questions
1. Use the notes and this card. A historical steamship uses a steam engine. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Find what moves the traveler: footsteps, an animal, steam or electricity.
  • Find the note for Steam-powered transport. Check which words in this card match it.
2. Use the notes and this card. An operator receives a message in a code of short and long signals. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Find how the message travels: mailed writing, printed reports, coded signals or a voice through a phone.
  • Find the note for Telegraph. Check which words in this card match it.
3. Use the notes and this card. A family passes along a drum rhythm. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Look for shared words, food, music or a change to a learned practice.
  • Find the note for Music tradition. Check which words in this card match it.
4. Use the notes and this card. A fictional group schedules rides for participants. Which choice best fits?
Need a hint?
  • Look for a rule separating people by race, refusing bus use as protest, arranging support or seeking equal treatment.
  • Find the note for Organization. Check which words in this card match it.

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Make four small boxes for Our Community, Past and Present, one for each lesson: How People Travelled and Travel; How Messages Travel; Traditions and New Choices; Fairness and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In each box, choose one supplied card and explain its match using the notes. Compare two of your cards: what makes their matches different? You may draw or tell an adult your answers; the adult can write them for you. Use the lesson cards; you do not need a purchase, interview, personal record or trip. For the adult helping: keep the fictional examples and historical notes distinct; these short cards do not tell every detail about a person or place.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Choose one supplied card from each lesson: How People Travelled and Travel; How Messages Travel; Traditions and New Choices; Fairness and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • Use the notes to name each match and explain its clue.
  • Compare two cards and say or show how their clues differ.
  • Keep the events and details as written; do not make up a quotation or new event.
  • With an adult, name one question the cards do not answer.
Compare with a model response

How People Travelled and Travel: The card says: “A historical traveler follows a path on foot.” That matches Walking. Walking is travel using a person’s own steps. Compare: The card says: “A historical cart is pulled by a horse.” That matches Animal-powered transport. Animal-powered transport is movement powered by an animal. How Messages Travel: The card says: “A historical person sends handwritten pages through the post.” That matches Letter. Letter is a written message sent to a recipient. Compare: The card says: “A historical town distributes printed daily reports.” That matches Newspaper. Newspaper is a printed publication containing reports for readers. Traditions and New Choices: The card says: “A fictional family speaks two languages at home.” That matches Language. Language is a shared system used to communicate. Compare: The card says: “A fictional family teaches a recipe used for celebrations.” That matches Food tradition. Food tradition is a learned practice involving preparing or sharing food. Fairness and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: The card says: “A historical policy requires racially separated bus seating.” That matches Segregation. Segregation is enforced separation of people by race. Compare: The card says: “Montgomery residents stop using city buses during the campaign.” That matches Boycott. Boycott is an organized refusal to use or buy a service as protest. Adult checking note: This model uses the supplied lesson cards and notes. It does not describe every person, community or place. Answering a new question would need a matching source or a new observation.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.