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Open with slide show of photos from LOC of Civil Rights-related events as "We Shall Overcome" by Pete Seeger plays. Then, allow them to listen to interview of Jamila Jones about addition of new verse "We are not afraid."

Talk about summer at Civil Rights Institute in DC at Library of Congress, where I learned about use of primary resources as a way of connecting kids to concepts. Previous seminar was about primary resource analysis in general, using LOC, but mine involved the Civil Rights Movement specifically.

It was a great opportunity to connect with people who shared a similar interest and need for expanding a certain skill (use of primary resources).
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Teaching with Primary Resources

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Teaching with Primary Sources

What? Why? and How?
Open with slide show of photos from LOC of Civil Rights-related events as "We Shall Overcome" by Pete Seeger plays. Then, allow them to listen to interview of Jamila Jones about addition of new verse "We are not afraid."

Talk about summer at Civil Rights Institute in DC at Library of Congress, where I learned about use of primary resources as a way of connecting kids to concepts. Previous seminar was about primary resource analysis in general, using LOC, but mine involved the Civil Rights Movement specifically.

It was a great opportunity to connect with people who shared a similar interest and need for expanding a certain skill (use of primary resources).
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Purpose

Exposure to LOC and tools, model lesson, CA examples
Purposes are threefold:

1) Expose you to the LOC site and show you tools that they have available for the classroom or your own interest.

2) Model use of some of their materials

3) Expose you to ways that PSA is already occurring at CA and investigate ways you might use PS materials in your discipline.
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Activity

Choose which one: song or CA
Prepare for Activity: Half of the room analyze origins of song “We Shall Overcome” and half analyze CA changes in last 7 years.

Materials: Give them versions of “We Shall Overcome.”

Hand out analysis sheet and comparison sheet

Observe, reflect, question/wonder

On stickies, put notes O, R, Q on your sheet, about the version that you have

After a couple of minutes, compare your version with that of someone else, and write your observations on your sheet.

CA ISACS report from 2010 with new figures, too.

ISACS figures of related data

PSA questionnaire about ORQ
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Primary Source Analysis--a model

Observations, Reflections, Wonderings
After 10 minutes, stop, and ask, “What did you observe about your document or lyrics? What did you think about as you considered each one? What were some questions that you had?
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Reflection

Benefits of PSA/disadvantages?
What were some of the benefits of using these resources? What might make them primary? What would have been secondary resources or NOT primary resources related to the topic of the song? The school?


[Inquiry-based learning; removes textbook and puts kids in role of historian.
Forces kids to question the answers: justify, criticize, analyze.
LOC support and energy.
Primary Source Sets,Teachers, Classroom Materials, Youtube videos]
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Library of Congress Website

Check out www.loc.gov
Library of Congress tools/walk-through: Go to site www.loc.gov
and show link to “teachers”=>—Classroom materials, primary sets—and show various materials.
--Key in "diplomacy" for Laura (Social Studies teacher) under “American Memory” and link to Lincoln’s letter.

Show TPS network: http://tpsteachersnetwork.org/home

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CA examples

Primary Source Analysis at work
Colleagues share examples of ways we currently use Primary Resources. I'm sure that these aren't the only ones.
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Language Arts

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Explanation and handouts: 3 examples: Sonam--Scavenger hunt using clues to find books and books then to solve clues
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Skyping with the author

Language Arts--skyping with Chris Grabenstein, author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library.
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Information Literacy

Researching CA alums
Susan will talk about using items found behind the lockers to hunt down alums and learn about the school.
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Writing to alums

based on primary sources
This is a letter that Susan's students sent, based on a document that they found behind a locker.
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Math 6

Reading and comparing stats
Katie will talk about using articles with stats to challenge reading skills and promote analysis of statistics in articles.
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Other CA examples?

Organ Day, Eustace Conway, Immigrant Stories
Handout paper with primary source list: What are primary resources that you could use in the classroom?

5 minutes—Discuss one way that you could use primary resources with a lesson that you are doing this quarter or year.
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Wrap up

Thank you for participating.
Play "What Did you Learn in School Today?" by Pete Seeger and thank everyone for participating.

Tell them to pick up handouts and see me with any questions.

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