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Story by Tim Williams/ University Center at Ponca City / Contributing Writer

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Ninth grade. Pampa, Texas, World History. Mrs. Hopkins. Biased and unbiased sources. Mrs. Hopkins said it was important for us to develop the skill of determining whether the things we read were biased or unbiased. In multiple lessons, she provided us with two articles related to the same aspect of world history we were studying. One was biased and the other was unbiased. It sounds easy enough, but sometimes it was tricky. I don’t remember the topic of the articles, but I certainly remember the lesson itself.