January

Resources for January 27

Library of Congress goodness:

• Getting Started with Primary Sources

  • Teacher's Guide and Analysis Tool

  • Finding Primary Sources

  • Distance Learning & Primary Sources

• Classroom Materials

Dave's goodness:

• Dave's Slide Deck

• Blackout / Found Poetry

  • Blackout Poetry Slide Deck

  • Glenn's History Tech version

  • Austin Kleon's TEDx Talk about inventing the strategy

  • Rachel and Megan's directions

  • Online Blackout Poetry

  • Ed Tech Picks version

  • ReadWriteThink version

  • New York Times examples

  • Martin Luther King example from Laura

  • Library of Congress Found Poetry

• Notecard Confessional strategy

  • Jill Weber website

  • Jill Weber Twitter

  • Derek Schutte Twitter

  • #sschat website and hashtag

• Zoom in / Visual DEI

  • Zoom In / Visual DEI Google Doc graphic organizer (or this PDF version)

  • Tutorial

  • New York Times What's Going On in This Picture?

  • Search online for images using keywords such as "strange, fascinating, weird, historical, bizarre, odd, photos, images, history"

• Visual Thinking Strategy

  • Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way painting

  • Directions for VTS

Homework for February 10

• Read Your Bookshelf May Be Part of the Problem

• Watch The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Overachiever and need a few extra things?

  • Black Kids Don't Want to Read About Harriet Tubman All the Time

  • Black History is Not American History: Toward a Framework of Black Historical Consciousness

January 13 Resources:

• January 6 Jamboard

  • Bring Learning to Life with Jamboard

  • Jamboard tutorial and resources

  • 10 Ways to Use Jamboard

  • Using Jamboard for Remote Teaching

• Resources for Teaching January 6

• Original Draft of Great Seal of the United States

• Books

  • What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel

  • Out of Many, One

• Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Doors

Dave's Resources:

• Dave's presentation slide deck

  • Zoom Chat file from presentation

  • States Names painting

• Books

  • Chasing Lincoln's Killer

  • Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • How I Became A Ghost — A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story

• Getting Started with Primary Sources - Library of Congress

• Primary Source Analysis Worksheets

• See Think Wonder graphic organizer

• Washington Crossing the Delaware

  • This Iconic American History Painting Gets the Facts Wrong

Homework for January 27

Social Studies teachers:

• Connect a primary source you already use from Library of Congress with a complementary book

• Start by talking with an ELA teacher, then head over to the list of lists on project front page or spend some time at the Read.gov list page

ELA teachers:

• Uncover a primary source from Library of Congress that connects to a piece of literature in one of your units

• Start by talking with a Social Studies teacher, then browse the LOC Classroom Materials page, then head to Chronicling America