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USING PRIMARY SOURCE ACTIVITIES

 

The goal of this assignment is to have you use two primary source activities in your classroom and document what went well, what did not, and what could be done to improve it.
 
DUE DATES:  MARCH 17 and MAY 14
 
You will fill out a short worksheet to fill out for this assignmen that can be downloaded as a Word file,  HERE.
 
The  TWO activities with primary sources you use  in your classroom can be two of the Primary Source Activities created for the program, but they do not have to be. We recognize that the completeion dats for these assignments might not coincide with your teaching schedule.
 
They can be activities created for other lessons,  and they can be activities that you did not create (but if at all possible, use activities you have created).
 
The assignments will be turned in via email to Stuart ( hobbs.2@osu.edu) and to your assigned lead teacher (see Handout).

 

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In this 5 minute video teachinghistory.org  (you can also read a transcript), historian Richard Follett analyzes two narratives of slavery: an investigative report written by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1853 for the New York Times and Solomon Northrup's book Twelve Years A Slave. He discusses each document separately and then compares their very different perspectives on slavery in Louisiana's sugar growing parishes. Follett models several historical thinking skills, including: close reading;attention to key source information, including who wrote each account, when, and for what purpose; and exploring how to make sense of multiple perspectives and conflicting accounts. Note that the Primary Source Activity Assignment related to the The Slave Trade seminar is on organized on the theme, Point of View.
 

 

 
 

 

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