Teaching Fr. Coughlin's Social Justice

Unit 1: Using Primary Documents

Lesson 1: How to read and examine Social Justice

• Analyze the content and language used in Social Justice to study how an author uses language to make an argument.
• Evaluate how the ideas and concepts of groups and individuals change across time, and how they reflect and are impacted by the broader historical context they exist in.
• Identify the key points of various media types.
• Examine the information learned within the historical context of the Great Depression.
• Assess the ways Social Justice can be used in historical research and how to think critically about the content of primary sources.

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