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To design a primary source history lesson, you need to provide a central historical question, a document set, student levels, and lesson timing to generate a four-phase lesson architecture with strategy instruction and assessments.

The Reading Like a Historian lesson structure organizes primary source inquiry into four phases: building background knowledge, establishing central questions, conducting document investigation, and facilitating evidence-based discussion.

Historical thinking strategies like sourcing, close reading, contextualisation, and corroboration are embedded directly into document analysis activities to guide students through evidence-based investigation and structured discussion.

Yes, you can convert passive textbook-based history instruction into document-based investigations by restructuring the content around primary source inquiry and historical questions to create a classroom-ready lesson.

Generating a document-based history lesson requires structured inputs including historical questions, document sets, student levels, and lesson duration to produce the complete lesson architecture with differentiation supports.

Yes, the generated lesson architecture includes differentiation supports for various student levels, discussion protocols, and formative assessment opportunities integrated throughout the document investigation phases.