Question description
The City of Glendale recently decided to
change how they teach United States History in the local High Schools. Instead
of trying to teach everything about everyone, the new approach will examine one
of the following three aspects of United States history: international
relations, economics, or social history. You have been chosen as part of a
focus group to address the Board of Education about this important decision.
You are asked to argue for one of the three perspectives as the “most
important” aspect of US history that should be taught in public schools.
Write
an essay that expresses which of the three approaches you will recommend to the
Board. Make sure to say why it is the most important for a High School graduate
to know, and why the other two are less important than the one you have chosen.
