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Letter Analysis

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis instructional activity, students analyze historical letters of their choosing and respond to 15 analysis questions about the letters.
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The More You Look, the More You See Photo Analysis

For Students 7th - 12th
In this primary source analysis learning exercise, students select historical photographs and then respond to 9 analysis questions about the photograph they select.
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Poster Analysis

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze historical posters of their choosing and respond to 10 analysis questions about the posters.
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Put Yourself in the Picture Photo Analysis

For Students 7th - 11th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, learners select historical photographs and then respond to 25 analysis questions that address the senses regarding the photograph they select.
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Timeline of Compromises over Slavery

For Students 6th - 12th
In this primary source analysis learning exercise, students read excerpts of the Preamble, the Constitution, and the Fugitive Slave Act, the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Crittenden...
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New York Girls Ask the President for a CCC of Their Own

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis learning exercise, students analyze a letter from young women in want of CCC jobs of their own during Great Depression. Students respond to 3 short answer questions about the letter to Roosevelt.
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Questions on Benjamin Franklin’s Cartoon

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students examine Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" political cartoon and then respond to 8 short answer questions based on their analysis of it.
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Dr. Seuss Political Cartoon Questions

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students examine a political cartoon by Dr. Seuss about World War II and then respond to 5 short answer questions.
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Freedom at Antietam

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore how the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation affected everyday individuals in the Civil War era. Learners are given the opportunity to read and evaluate primary and secondary source material, and then to compose a writing...
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Primary Sources

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write personal facts on a photograph of themselves to create a Primary Source. They then define Primary Source and list examples as a class of places where they could find primary sources. They also discuss the importance of...
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Primary/Secondary Source Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this primary/secondary source learning exercise, students answer a set of 5 questions about a picture drawn in approximately 1934 of an event that took place in 1867.
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Primary or Secondary Source?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this primary and secondary sources instructional activity, students look at a picture of colonial trapper, then answer 6 questions about source and specifics of the picture.
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Library Main Hall: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students choose a historical photograph or film and try to predict what happened after the photo or film in question.
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World War I

For Teachers 10th
Eleventh graders investigate propaganda used during World War I. In this World War I lesson, 10th graders examine propaganda from the war and analyze war posters. Students then create their own propaganda posters on listed topics.
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Writing a Literary Analysis

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
What makes writing literary? What comprises analysis? A 15-slide PowerPoint presentation, created by the Purdue University Writing Lab, tackles these questions. The explanations of what makes writing literary and what comprises analysis...
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Sally Hemings: Raising a Family Amidst the Brutality of Slavery

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Pupils may know about early American figures such as Phyllis Wheatley and Abigail Adams, but what about Sally Hemings? Sally Hemings was the mother of Thomas Jefferson's children, but she is often left in the shadows of history....

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