Reconstructing Primary Source Texts
Students will reconstruct primary source texts to gain a deeper understanding of them before completing an analysis activity.
Students will reconstruct primary source texts to gain a deeper understanding of them before completing an analysis activity.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical texts by creating a blackout poetry version of it.
Students will put together puzzles of images from any history unit to review what they learned.
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My classroom is a primary source heavy classroom. Sometimes we read through sources and analyze them together, sometimes my kids do it in small groups or pairs, at other times it’s an individual effort, and sometimes I even break the readings up and girls complete different tasks for […]
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