Lesson 5: Synthesis and Argumentation Workshop – Globalization
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Students will construct a historically defensible argument evaluating continuity and change in globalization from 1900 to the present.
What has changed most in the modern global era?
What patterns of continuity remain?
continuity, change, synthesis, historical argument
APWH Unit 9 Topics 9.1–9.5
Skill 6.B
Reasoning Process: Continuity and Change
Organizing evidence and reasoning in analytical writing.
Students complete a cumulative long-essay response that synthesizes themes across the course.
Purpose: Capstone skill demonstration
DOK: 4
Evaluating globalization’s impact on modern life.
Students may list examples instead of analyzing change over time.
Claim scaffolds; peer review and revision.
Cumulative long-essay response focused on continuity and change.
Writing rubrics, synthesis organizers