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Analyzing Evidence about Social Security Worksheet

This worksheet helps students to analyze three pieces of evidence about Social Security (a government poster, a letter about the program, and Congressional testimony about the program) and write a paragraph explaining the evidence's different points of view.


This worksheet aligns to Common Core Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies:

• RHSS.6-8.6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

Source | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Item Type | Worksheet
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Analyzing Evidence about Social Security Worksheet,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/2021.

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