What's the difference between a diary and a memoir? Young historians explore the ramifications of this question as they learn how to use primary source materials to gain an understanding of life on the Texas frontier.

Concepts

primary sources, primary source analysis, the texas revolution

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask class members to imagine how this same event might be told from a non Anglo Texan point of view

Pros

• All the documents in the the series of lessons are related to the life of Mary Maverick
• Kids read Maverick's description of the same event in her diary and in her memoir and compare the two
• Groups again use the SOAPS method of question to examine the documents

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.6.1 RI.7.1