The Social Studies series runs from the first cities of the Americas to the edge of the present. It has seventy-two topics; the first eight quizzes and the first interlude are here now, and the rest follow through the year. Every quiz teaches before it asks, explains every answer, and ends with four questions for the person who just took it — because reader notes change these pages, and the pages say so.
The series’ own front door: all seventy-two topics in seven groups, with everything built so far lit and linked, and the ledger of what its readers have changed.
Built so far
- 1Reading a Social Studies Passage
the mound — the central idea, the details, and what the question asks
- 2Primary and Secondary Sources
the sun stone — who made it, when, and for whom
- 3Reading Maps
the conch — title, legend, compass, scale bar
- 4Timelines and Dates
the stela — BCE, CE, and the year that does not exist
- 5Tables, Graphs, and Charts
the tribute roll — units, axes, and percent of what
- 6Cartoons and Pictures as Arguments
the quill — caption, symbols, and what is made large
- 7Cause and Effect
the twelfth book — a cause is a claim you can say how
- 8Point of View and Bias
the cloth — where the account stands
- IInterlude I · The Author Walks
Guaman Poma, 1615 — nothing scored; something to read whole, with lines for writing
Next: Quizzes 9 and 10 close the toolkit, and the quipu machine arrives with them. Then the trails begin, two quizzes at a time, toward seventy-two.