Source Analysis

Developing Guiding Questions: Guiding students' Analysis of Primary Sources

This model was developed originally for local educators participating in the program SALEM in History. It was created by classroom teachers, education specialists, and a historian and was last revised by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello in 2004.

Source Analysis Guide - Using Essex History.pdf

The following video will be featured in the workshop on 1/23/21:

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Putting it Into Practice

This video featuring workshop facilitator and educator Brian Sheehy and students demonstrates how local examples and difficult conversations related to immigration history can be put into practice in the classroom.

Additional Source Analysis Guides:

Navigating a Culturally Complex World- Out of Eden Learn Blog: 3 O’s - Othering, Overgeneralizing, and Overconfidence Framework
Project Zero’s Artful Thinking Routines to analyze visual sources: What do you see, what do you think, what do you wonder?
Facing History and Ourselves Surprising, Interesting Troubling (SIT) protocol
UsingEssexHistory.org.