Children's author drew on turbulent Minnesota Childhood , Gary Paulsen obituary, Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 14, 2021.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to analyze and transcribe primary source documents through crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals obtain information and ideas, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of people. Students will transcribe diary and journal entries, letters and speeches from the Library of Congress collection, Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and Women. Students should be able to make connections of what they have transcribed to the Civil Rights Movement. The lesson is designed to be done over 3-4 class periods. This lesson may be adapted to any of the LOC collections on the crowd sourcing homepage, https://crowd.loc.gov/. Students will be assigned to write for purpose: narrative, descriptive, expository or persuasive. Students will be evaluated on purpose, viewpoint, distinguishing features, organization, development and writing tasks.
When my students were researching collectively and sharing ideas with each other it drastically increased their retention of information learned. Not sure if it was the process of crowdsourcing or social pressure, or a combination of both that caused students to recall what they had learned. Analysing primary sources also caused for greater engagement because they saw history playing out in real life. After students completed transcribing Mary Church Terrell’s diary and journal entries, letters and speeches they wanted to continue to analyze other entries.
These resources are specific to Charles Goddard and the First Minnesota regiment.
6 - 8 English/Language Arts Social Studies/History Historical Fiction
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Pre K - 2 3 - 5 Art/Music English/Language Arts Library Social Studies/History Maps http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3744s.ct000129
A three part library mini-lesson which includes primary source analysis, reading informational text and a hands-on application activity.
I'm uploading my activity plan for the STI. It's in very rough form. I need suggestions, feedback, and input. Thank you!
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