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Inquiry Starter Set for AAPI Month

Album Description

At the end of the school year, it is often a challenge to engage students in learning.  How about take Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and have a conversation around primary sources and current events? 

This album is meant to act as a mini Inquiry lesson in looking at how view points have changed over time because of political situations. 

  Ann Canning   inquirystarterset   Social Studies/History   6 - 8   9 - 12   13+   AAPI   China 

China fights on / Gaydos ; United China Relief, member agency of the National War Fund.

Teaching Notes

Using one of the linked below Project Zero Inquiry Models examine this primary source. 

What was the view of the Chinese/China by Americans at this time period? 

What was happening in the world during this time period? 

How has the view changed since the date of this primary source? 

Why has the view changed since the date of this primary source? 

True for Who IDM

Here Now/Then There IDM

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2008678312/

Reference note

Summary

  • Posters shows a Chinese airman(?) looking up at the sky with small airplanes flying around him.

Created / Published

  • [United States : s.n., 1943?]

Genre

  • War posters--American--1940-1950
  • Lithographs--Color--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  Title from item.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

China carries on / Baldridge.

Teaching Notes

Using one of the linked below Project Zero Inquiry Models examine this primary source. 

What was the view of the Chinese/China by Americans at this time period? 

What was happening in the world during this time period? 

How has the view changed since the date of this primary source? 

Why has the view changed since the date of this primary source? 

True for Who IDM

Here Now/Then There IDM

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2007678376/

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster shows a Chinese soldier with bayoneted rifle. Behind him stands a small Chinese child near a shroud-draped body. Chinese characters appear on right side of poster.

Created / Published

  • [S.l. : s .n., between 1940 and1945]

Genre

  • War posters--American--1940-1950
  • Lithographs--Color--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Caption: United China Relief, member agency of the National War Fund.
  • -  Stamped on back: Gift of Packer Outdoor Advertising Corporation, 1963.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

Toledo, Ohio. Ward Canaday, a millionaire, head of China Relief in Toledo, with a Chinese war relief poster

Teaching Notes

Using one of the linked below Project Zero Inquiry Models examine this primary source. 

What was the view of the Chinese/China by Americans at this time period? 

What was happening in the world during this time period? 

How has the view changed since the date of this primary source? 

Why has the view changed since the date of this primary source? 

True for Who IDM

Here Now/Then There IDM

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017844691/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1942.

Genre

  • Safety film negatives

Notes

  • -  Title and other information from caption card.
  • -  Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
  • -  More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
  • -  Temp. note: owibatch3
  • -  Film copy on SIS roll 6, frame 614.

Repository

Digital Id

  • fsa 8d13561 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d13561