Thursday, September 18, 2014

Lesson Plans 9.18.14

Evaluating Sources

Groups
A.  Work together to complete the worksheet

1. Historical Question:  Who was present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
Source 1: Hollywood movie about the American Revolution made 2001
Source 2: Book written by a famous historian who is an expert on the American Revolution,  
                           published in 1999.

Who do you trust more? Why?


2. Historical Question: What was slavery like in South Carolina?
Source 1: Interview with former slave in 1936.  The interviewer is a black man collecting o                          histories for the Federal Writer’s Project.
Source 2: Interview with former slave in 1936.  The interviewer is a white woman collecting  
oral histories for the Federal Writer’s Project.

Who do you trust more? Why?


3. Historical Questions: What was the layout of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz?
Source 1: Interview with 80 year-old Holocaust survivor in 1985.
Source 2: Map of concentration camp found in Nazi files.

Who do you trust more? Why?


4.  Historical Question:  Why were Japanese Americans put in internment camps during WWII?
Source 1: Government film explaining internment from 1942.
Source 2: Government report on Japanese Internment from 1983 based on declassified 
government documents.

Who do you trust more? Why?


5. Historical Question:  Did American soldiers commit atrocities during the Vietnam War in 1969?
Source 1: Sworn testimony by American Sergeant in Congressional hearings in 1969.
Source 2:  Speech by American General touring the United States in 1969.

Who do you trust more? Why?


6.  Historical Question:  What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Source 1: High school history textbook from 1985.
Source 2: Newspaper account from the day after the battle in June 1876.

Who do you trust more? Why?


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