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USING PRIMARY SOURCES

Debating the Documents / Exploring Primary Sources

Quick Flip Ideas for Using Primary Sources by Jonathan Burack. Edupress, 2006. This handy flip chart explains the importance of primary sources, what they are, and how to use and evaluate them in the study of history. It deals with the author's purpose and audience, determining the reliability of a source, detecting bias, and interpreting both written and visual sources. With every flip of the page you will find activities that relate to the particular question or topic being addressed on that page. The spiral binding makes it easy to use during a class or for planning lessons. No teacher should be without this handy guide. I think it will prove as handy as its predecessor, the Quick flip Questions for Critical Thinking. 16 pages. BTH-2998. $3.59-D

 

Creating History Documentaries : a step-by-step guide to video projects in the classroom by Deborah Escobar. Prurock Press, 2001. This is an easy guide for teachers wanting to challenge their students with creative media. it will show you and your students the techniques needed for researching, scripting, and editing a historical documentary. Students will use a video camera and compute software to integrate historical photos, film footage, interviews, and primary source materials to produce a video that can be shared with students, parents, and the community. The book includes how-to information on video cameras, including the digital ones, computer software, online research, sources of historical photographic film and more. 103 pages. For grades 4-12. BTH-3805. $17.96-D

 

Debating the Documents Series by Edupress: Each reproducible booklet in this series contains a brief introductory essay and timeline; two pairs of conflicting primary sources -- a visual pair and a  written pair; student worksheets to take notes on the primary sources; overhead transparencies to use in discussing the primary sources; and a document-based question and guidelines for writing a brief essay using the booklet's primary sources. For grades 4-8

    Debating the Documents: The Pilgrims, the myths and realities of the first years of Plymouth Colony in New England. Typical images of the Pilgrims are compared with some written sources from the first days of settlement. Are the traditional stories about these early settlers true, partly true or all myth? These primary sources give students a chance to decide. Written documents are selections from works of William Bradford.  Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies.BTH-3629. $13.49-D

     Debating the Documents: Planters and Slaves in Colonial Virginia: The wealthy planters who owned slaves yet championed the ideas of freedom and equality.  In the 1700s, Virginia’s wealthy planters often became strong champions of freedom, yet many of them owned slaves. How could this be?  These primary sources give students a chance to decide. Written documents are selections from a letter by Reverend Peter Fontaine, a Virginian; Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; and a passage by Patrick Henry .  Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies.BTH-3630. $13.49-D

 Debating the Documents: The Iroquois & Colonial America: The great Iroquois Confederacy that fought, traded, and remained powerful throughout colonial times.  The great Iroquois Confederacy of five Native American nations (six, after 1722) fought, traded and held off French and British settlers for many decades. How did they do it? These sources offer clues. Written documents used here are written by Cadwallader Colden quoting a Mohawk chief and Iroquois Chief Canasatego. Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies..BTH-3631. $13.49-D

    Debating the Documents: Ben Franklin, American: The talented printer, scientist, and statesman some historians call "The First American."  Ben Franklin was a scientist, statesmen, printer, philosopher and more. Was he also the ideal of what a citizen of the new American nation should be? Written documents in this booklet are from Franklin's letters and speeches.   Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies..BTH-3633. $13.49-D

    Debating the Documents: The Great Awakening: The revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies in the 1730s and the 1740s.  New, revival preachers of the 1730s and ’40s in colonial America called for a return to stricter forms of religious belief, but they also threatened traditional church authorities. Was this Great Awakening a stepping stone on the way to the American Revolution? Written documents are selections from colonial preachers and teachers from Harvard. Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies.BTH-3632. $13.49-D

    Debating the Documents: The Meaning of the Declaration: The ideals of liberty and equality that form the basis of a free government.  Many say the Declaration of Independence defines the basic ideas and ideals for any free government. Are they correct? Use these sources to debate this question. Written documents in this booklet are taken from speeches given by Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.   Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies. BTH-3634. $13.49-D

    Debating the Documents: Lowell: The First Factory Town: The dream and the reality of America's first industrial community. Lowell’s founders had great hopes for their new industrial community. What was their dream, and what was the reality? These sources help students decide. Written documents in this booklet are from a letter by a factory girl to her cousin and from "Factory Tract Number 1" by the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.  Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies. BTH-3635. $13.49-D

    Debating the Documents: Blue or Gray: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. The Civil War was a tragic struggle to save the Union and end slavery, but what did soldiers on each side think they were fighting for? These sources offer some insight. Written documents are taken from letters written by soldiers on both sides.  Reproducible 24-page booklet and four transparencies. BTH-3636. $13.49-D

   

 

Exploring Primary Sources, An Edupress Series:

Bring the past to life in an exciting way with this collection of images. Each set includes 32 cards, featuring historic drawings, paintings, photos, cartoons or other visual primary sources. The numbered cards illustrate the topic chronologically. Each card back includes information about the visual and asks questions under the headings “What Do You See?”, “Thinking About the Picture” and “Using Your Imagination.” Cards may be used individually or in groups or as a focus for discussion or writing activities. A teacher guide provides a brief narrative of the cards and further suggestions for their use. Cards measure 6 x 8". Grades 5+.

    Exploring Primary Sources: Colonial American: Discovery and Settlement. This set begins with the exploration of America by Columbus and others. It includes Native American subjects and cards dealing with Fort Caroline, an early drawing of the coast of Virginia, the signing of the Mayflower Compact, William Penn and the American Indians, Pocahontas, King Philip's War, New England towns, New Englanders and the sea, the middle colonies, slavery, plantation life, Puritan influence, gravestones, the Salem witch trials, role of women in the colonies, Boston Harbor, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, and Colonial America looking westward. BTH-3623. $8.99-D

    Exploring Primary Sources: The American Revolution and its Aftermath. This set has cards dealing with events leading up to the American Revolution such as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party , the leaders of the revolution, British taxation and protests against it, battles of the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, Valley Forge, Molly Pitcher, Abigail Adams, loyalists, surrender at Yorktown, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and early politics. BTH-3224. $8.99-D

    Exploring Primary Sources: The Civil War. This set has cards dealing with abolition, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War battles, the draft, Civil War generals, the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans who fought, Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address, the fall of Vicksburg, Civil War medicine, the war and industry, Robert E. Lee, and the aftermath of the Civil War. BTH-3225. $8.99-D

    Exploring Primary Sources: The Western Frontier. This set has cards dealing with Yosemite Valley, Canyon de Chelly, a Lokota Camp, a buffalo hunt, Hopi Indians, trappers and traders, the Gold Rush, cowboys, life on the trails going west, prairie life, building the railroads, the Lakota Wars, other Indian wars, American Indian education, Quanah Parker, Geronimo, industry in the West, tourism in the West, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Annie Oakley, Yukon gold rush, and Brete Harte.  BTH-3226. $8.99-D

    Exploring Primary Sources: America's Industrial Transformation. This collection of cards focuses on key trends and events in the first century or so of the Industrial Revolution in America. The pictures portray developments from steam, coal, and the factories in the early 1800's to the oil, steel, and electricity of the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s.   You will see pictures of Lowell, American's first steam engine, the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, steam-powered saw mills, early fire fighting, the Brooklyn Bridge, and much more. BTH-3227. $8.99-D

    Exploring Primary Sources: Black History. This collection of cards focuses on key figures, issues, and events in the history of African Americans. The pictures deal with slavery, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the era of Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.  BTH-3228. $8.99-D

Voices from Primary Sources: American History, edited by D. W.Skrabanek. Harcourt Achieve, 2008. This resource for secondary students teaches students how to respond to document-based questions, develops reading comprehension and social studies skills, and and helps students understand  diary entries, speeches, political cartoons, charts, time lines, graphs, maps, posters, and photographs. Several practice tests with document-based questions are included at the end. A bulk of the documents are from the 20th Century, though many also deal with earlier periods. Reproducible for classroom use. 128 pages. BTH-3965. $15.29-D

Voices from Primary Sources: World History, edited by D. W.Skrabanek. Harcourt Achieve, 2008. This resource for secondary students teaches students how to respond to document-based questions, develops reading comprehension and social studies skills, and and helps students understand  diary entries, speeches, political cartoons, charts, time lines, graphs, maps, posters, and photographs. Several practice tests with document-based questions are included at the end. Many documents are from the 20th Century, though many also deal with earlier periods. Reproducible for classroom use. 128 pages. BTH-3966. $15.29-D

 

 

 

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