1. Teaching Methods S.P.E.E.C.H..
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2. How to Use this PowerPoint
This PowerPoint explains the S.P.E.E.C.H. methodology and is to be used in conjunction with the Method Review Sheet available in the Methods section of CICERO.
For maximum, effectiveness, please review the Method Review Sheet in conjunction with the method.
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3. Freedom of S.P.E.E.C.H.
In writing about history, historians often take into account a number of factors in shaping narratives. These commonly include social factors, economic factors, and political factors, along with geographic or other environmental factors and cultural considerations.
Teachers can help students to imitate this method of analysis by using S.P.E.E.C.H.
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4. Make a S.P.E.E.C.H.
The American Institute for History Education staff designed S.P.E.E.C.H. to highlight five key factors historians and social scientists often use to write about the past.
These factors are …
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5. The Parts of S.P.E.E.C.H. Social
Of or relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society.
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6. The Parts of S.P.E.E.C.H. Political
According to Webster’s dictionary Political may be defined as 1 a: of or relating to government, a government, or the conduct of government b: of, relating to, or concerned with the making as distinguished from the administration of governmental policy.
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7. The Parts of S.P.E.E.C.H. Economic
Having practical or industrial significance or uses: affecting material resources.
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8. Environmental The Parts of S.P.E.E.C.H.
The geographic cause or contribution of an historical event or issue. Or,
Another type of environmental cause or contribution, such as attitude or fear, etc.
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9. The Parts of S.P.E.E.C.H. Cultural
The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of an ethnic, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time: popular culture, southern culture, etc.
Culture has been defined as a process rather than a fixed state of being. It is always in flux and can perhaps best be understood as the creation of the past and the present through social interaction (including work and leisure activities.)
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10. a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events.
= Aspects of History
a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events.
The “History” component is the key to SPEECH. It enables students to determine multiple causation of historical events and issues.
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11. Go Make A: Social Political Economic Environmental Cultural
Aspects of History
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