The manual presents lesson planning according to the textbook A. Kravchenko "Social Studies. Grade 10" (M.: Russian word, 2006) on the basis of an approximate program of secondary (complete) general education in social studies (basic level) and corresponding to the federal component of the state standard general education 2004. The main problems of the course are briefly and easily disclosed, basic concepts and methods of working with them are given (glossary training); questions for discussion, tasks, control tests are offered.