Think of assessing your students through oral narration! This will allow them to use higher-order thinking skills, and thread together a narrative that will help you to really see if they understood the history content you have been teaching them. Give parents or your students time to think about 3-5 specific questions you will be asking them to answer on the day of the test. For example:1. Tell me how the period in history called the Dark Ages got its name.2. What would it be like living as a p