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Using Primary Sources: The Rogue's Gallery Lesson PlanUsing Primary Sources: The Rogue's Gallery Lesson Plan
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PBS
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6th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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Using Primary Sources: The Rogue's Gallery

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What would be in your life's scrapbook? Scholars use short video clips, primary and secondary documents, and photos to investigate a 1909 scrapbook. They analyze and uncover what the Rogue Book tells them about the past in Western America. This is the final installment of a three-part series. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the american frontier, the american west, primary source analysis

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Split class into six teams to investigate each page of the scrapbook
  • Have each student bring in a photo to create a class scrapbook; have them explain why they chose that specific picture
  • Print out photos of the scrapbook and place around room prior to lesson

Classroom Considerations

  • The link to the Rogue Book doesn't work, but the lesson is still quite good 

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  • Resource includes printable worksheets and primary documents
  • Provides printable photos from the scrapbook to use in class

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Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.7 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.7 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9

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