Social Studies

Composing the Past: Jazz as Historical Evidence with Wynton Marsalis

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Title : Composing the Past: Jazz as Historical Evidence with Wynton Marsalis

Subject Area/Grade: Social Studies / 6th-8th Grade

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • OBSERVE specific features of a musical/cultural source without immediately treating impressions as historical facts.
  • QUESTION what the source suggests and what it cannot establish on its own.
  • INVESTIGATE by contextualizing Marsalis’s work and comparing it with written historical sources.
  • EXPLAIN a defensible conclusion using evidence from multiple sources while acknowledging limits and uncertainty.

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