Reconstructing Primary Source Texts
Students will reconstruct primary source texts to gain a deeper understanding of them before completing an analysis activity.
Blackout Poetry with a Social Studies Twist
Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical texts by creating a blackout poetry version of it.
A Point of View Activity that’s Sure to be a Hit!
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 […]
A Favorite Way for Students to Analyze Historical Images
As a history teacher, images from the past are vital to my classes every single day. Kids need to see the past and make connections to it to fully understand, and hopefully appreciate, it. I almost always use images (whether real or political cartoons) to introduce and review […]
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