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A New Constitution….Your Turn!

For Teachers 5th Standards
It's the 1700s, and while returning home from the Constitutional Convention, pupils are propelled to 2777. The United States— emerging from a period of unrest and war—needs help developing a new constitution! Using the material from the...
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Guy Fawkes Night

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What happened on the fifth of November that has prompted an annual, national commemoration in Great Britain? Young historians look at a traditional English rhyme and folk tale from the seventeenth century that...
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Hamlet and the Pirates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use seventeenth century primary sources to understand the off-stage pirate attack that occurs in Hamlet. Students read and discuss Hamlet's letter to Horatio from the play, Hamlet. High schoolers analyze primary documents...
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"You Shall Do Your Best Endeavor" - Working With Primary Documents

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read and interpret primary source documents regarding historic Jamestown. In small groups, they read the primary documents, answer questions, and view online maps of Jamestown Island and Virginia.
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Secession Convention Analysis Sheet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer based on the Secession Convention. The primary source documents are not included.
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A Brief History of Fairfax County

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students begin the lesson by writing what they know about Fairfax County in their journals. Using primary source documents, they identify ten interesting facts about the area and watch a video. They complete a Venn Diagram comparing...
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What Really Caused This?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students read a copy of the Conscription Act of 1863  and respond to 7 short answer questions about its content. The text of the act is not included.
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Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a sample found poem and create one together as a class. In this Great Depression lesson, students select a topic, such as miners, and read primary source documents related to the topic. Students select one narrative as the...
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Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders interpret and analyze political cartoons. For this primary source analysis lesson, 11th graders examine the implications of Industrialization as they respond to questions regarding selected political cartoons about the...
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Surviving the Depression- 1930-1939 Lesson 1: Life During the Depression- Picture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and analyze primary source documents and pictures from the Great Depression Era. They consider ways in which the suffering of the Era could have been alleviated.
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This Just In: Exploreer Neets Wabanaki Indians

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners engage in a research of the Wabanaki Indians using a Social Studies textbook. Then the teacher reviews the information with the students. Then they work in groups to decipher the meaning of a primary source document and write a...
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Gift to the Future

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the different ways that primary sources are reserved.  In this Social Studies lesson, 7th graders analyze documents and photographs.  Students watch video clips and answer questions on a graphic organizer.
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WHAT DID COLOMBUS SAY?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students read and analyze two primary source documents written by Christopher Columbus.
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Activity 10: Scottish History

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this Scottish history worksheet, students utilize primary sources to list, fill in the blank, and write short answers from given questions. Students answer twenty five questions.
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Vietnam Unit III: Bobby Lou Letter to JFK

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Shared ResourcePrimary source letter from Bobbie Lou Pendergrass to John F. Kennedy, asking about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, 1963
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Vietnam Unit III: JFK Letter to Bobby Lou

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Shared Resource2/2 primary source document pair: JFK is responding to the letter sent by Bobby Lou Pendergrass who is grieving the loss of her soldier brother. JFK answers her questions about why he believes the U.S. is involved in the Vietnam War.

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