Document Duos is a pair-based learning framework to guide students through the historical thinking process.
Each partner follows specific prompts to source, contextualize, close read, and corroborate documentary evidence.
Pairs are provided with a set of cards, each with prompts to facilitate dialogue and annotation specific to the historical thinking process.
As “Partner A” and “Partner B,” each student completes tasks with feedback from each other. Teachers are also provided with an “Auditor” card to allow some flexible groupings of three students.
Document Duos provides more opportunities for students to make connections and develop historical literacy skills.
When alternated with Source Squads, students make connections more consistently to historical literacy skills and explore historical phenomena and sources in increasing depth.
