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Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Gail Petri, Primary Source Consultant gail.petri@gmail.com
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Gail Petri gail.petri@gmail.com
What you’ll learn!• Use books as hooks to spark students' reading enthusiasm
and historical understanding!
• Learn strategies for connecting award-winning literature - picture books, historical fiction, biography and non-fiction - with Library of Congress free online resources.
• Examples of informational texts will be included to illustrate the connection with common core standards.
Southern Illinois U. Edwardsville, IL
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Primary Source Connections are all
around you!
Example:Visit to Maine – Castine Island in the background.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Primary sources are the raw materials of history …. original documents and
objects which were created at the time under study.
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Why teach with primary sources?
ENGAGE students
Develop CRITICAL THINKING skills
CONSTRUCT their own knowledge
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Why teach with history through literature?
One of the great lessons of history is that perspective matters. So before I start kids searching out details of battles or other events in the past, I want to play with perspective a bit, using picture books to get my point across that there's
more than one way to look at a thing. Carol Otis Hurst, Carol Hurst’s Children Literature Site
Teachers know these novels focus a rich, human lens on a sometimes abstract topic. The stories and the lives of historical characters help readers see the
details of everyday life that are not incorporated into textbooks.Cathy Beck, “Historical Fiction: Teaching Tool or Literary Experience”,
Language Arts, July 2000
Why NOT combine
them both!
Literature +Primary Sources =
Memorable,Meaningful,
FunLearning!
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Common Core Connections?Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal/common_core/article.html
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
158 million items
838 miles of bookshelves
470 languages
15,000 items arrive daily
12,000 items added to the
collection daily
24.6+ million items online
1.7 million visitors
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/
Leaving Evidence of Our Lives
Book Activity…Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Try a Photo Analysis Activity Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Create a set of images for observation...
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
What do you SEE? THINK? WONDER?
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Study the people and objects…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Is the picture posed?
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
What do you observe in the background?
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
What do you notice first?
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
What details do you see?
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
ALL were photographed byLewis Hine.
MOST of them depict children.
ONE shows a child at work.
ALL were photographed in Baltimore, Maryland
ALL relate to the strawberry picking industry.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
The National Child Labor Committee Collectioncontains 5000 Lewis Hine photographs.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Do you want your students to learn more about child labor?
READ a book and make CONNECTIONS to primary sources.
“Yes, I want to learn but I can’t when I work
all the time.”
Fursen Owens 12 years old. Can’t read. Don’t know ABCs. Been in
mills 4 years. LH
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
The girl in this Lewis Hine photograph…
…to write this historical fiction book
about child labor in America.
…inspired Elizabeth Winthrop
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Winthrop, Elizabeth. “Searching for Addie: The Story behind a Famous Photograph.”
Social Education 70 (4), 174-177.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Read a picture book about mill life in
Lowell, MA in the 1800s.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
The Lowell Offering (1841 periodical review)The Lowell Offering (1844 periodical opinion letter)Among Lowell Mill Girls (1881 article)The Lowell Offering (1890 article) Lucy Larcom: A New England Girl (1890 book review)A Forgotten Industrial Experiment (1898 article)
Read 19th century periodical articles written about factory life in Lowell…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Work began at five o’clock on summer mornings, and at daylight in the winter. Breakfast was eaten by lamplight, during the cold weather; in summer, an interval of half an hour was allowed for it, between seven and eight o’clock. The time given for the noon meal was from a half to three quarters of an hour. The only hours of
leisure were from half past seven or eight to ten in the evening, the mills closing a little earlier on Saturdays. It was an imperative regulation that lights should be out at
ten. During those two evening hours, when it was too cold for the girls to sit in their own rooms, the dining-
room was used as a sitting-room, where they gathered around the tables, and sewed, and read, and wrote, and
studied. (p.599)Larcom, Lucy. “Among Lowell Mill Girls: A Reminiscence.”
The Atlantic Monthly. 48 (289) 593-612.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Create a Wordle at www.wordle.net
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Help your students to…
…become hooked on history!
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Try this PSI Activity Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Item 1
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Can you identify the person, place
or event these items have in
common?
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Bildner, Phil. Twenty-One Elephants. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004.Prince, April Jones. Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing. NY: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005.
Two books to hook your students…BookHooks
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Online you’ll find more than 24.6 million digitized items…
• Images • Documents • Maps • Sound files
• Movies • Sheet music • Webcasts • And more…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Click and explore for much more….Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Dive in and get started……strategies for success
• Know your standards• Know your content • Select quality literature• Find diverse primary sources• Connect across curriculum• Develop engaging activities• Collaborate with colleagues• Share your successes• Have fun!
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
…use inquiry techniques READ:
While reading, compile a list of dates, people and events that might have primary
source connections. (Tip - use post-its.)
INVESTIGATE: Search across www.loc.gov for primary
source items that connect with your book. (Tip - jot down your findings on a tracking
sheet.)
SHARE: Share your findings with the class. Discuss
how the primary sources you found increased your understanding of the book.
QUESTION: What else would you like to learn? Ask
more questions. Look for more answers.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
…use Teachers Page resources to guide you…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Now…on to more books…Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Adapt ready-made lessons…Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Dig for your own treasures…
…or use these titles as starters…
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Travel with Columbus….Summary: Written in journal format by a twelve-year-old ship’s boy, the entries describe Columbus' first voyage of discovery.Setting: Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean, 1492 .A Sampling of LOC Resources: 1492: An Ongoing Voyage Images of Christopher Columbus Today in History (October 12) Columbus’ Coat of Arms Christopher Columbus Saw LandA Letter of Christopher Columbus
Schlein, Miriam. Illustrated by Tom Newsom. I sailed with Columbus. Illustrated by Tom Newsom. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Online exhibitionsare filled with
primary sources….Book of Privileges
Columbus Coat of Arms
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Choose a specific date in the
Today in History archives….
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Don’t miss the Image Lists…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Have students compare and contrast illustrations created by different artists.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Use the Analyzing Photographs and Prints Teacher’s Guide to help formulate guiding questions.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Explore a picture book from the
another viewpoint…
Learn facts from a non-fiction title…
Yolen, Jane. Encounter. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Sis, Peter. Follow the Dream. NY: Knopf, 1991.
BookHook
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Explore an
online exhibition…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Pirate connections….
Summary: Describes life aboard a pirate ship and provides information about famous pirates in history and literature.Setting: 17th, 18th centuriesA sampling of LOC Resources:Buccaneers of America (Interactive book) The Dying Words of Capt. Robert Kidd (Songsheet) "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers” (1810 law)Pirate of the Isles (Songsheet)
Thompson, Julie. A Pirate’s Life for Me. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 1996.
BookHook
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Teaching Strategy: Have students turn the pages, translate the text, zoom into images and listen to audio.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Colonial Settlement/Holidays….Summary: Describes how the colonists aboard the Mayflower founded New Plymouth and celebrated their first harvest with a feast of thanksgiving.Setting: 17th century, MassachusettsA sampling of LOC Resources:The Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth Rock (America’s Library)Thanksgiving Presentation with timeline)Thanksgiving (Exhibition)1782 Proclamation on Thanksgiving Observation (George Washington Papers)Thanksgiving (Primary Source Set)
George, Jean Craighead. The First Thanksgiving. NY: Philomel Books, 1993.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Download items from a primary source set to explore with your class.
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Experience the Revolution….Summary: Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city. .Setting: Boston, Fort Ticonderoga, 1775-1776 A Sampling of LOC Resources: The seat of war in New England (1775 map) A Map of Ticonderoga (1777 map) Timeline: American Revolution Pictorial Americana: The Revolution Music, Theater & Dance : Yankee Doodle
Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Read Washington’s letter to Knox…Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Zoom into a Revolutionary War map…Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Read lyrics and listen to songs of the time…
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Learn more about American heroes from the Colonial Period…
…in a picture book
A Sampling of LOC Resources:John Hancock (America’s Library)Paul Revere (America’s Library)George Washington (America’s Library)Ben Franklin (Exhibition)
Smith, Lane. John, Paul, George and Ben. New York: Hyperion, 2006
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Read a non-fiction book for more facts:
McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Strum, Richard. Henry Knox: Washington’s Artilleryman. Stockton, NJ: Ottn, 2006.
BookHook
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Create a treasure chest of primary sources on a theme.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Idea: Have students create a primary source alphabet book.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Idea: Use an alphabet book as the basis for student research.
Teaching Idea: Visit the author’s Web site for additional teaching
ideas.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Lewis and Clark…Summary: This novel in verse highlights letters and thoughts of Jefferson, the Corps of Discovery, Sacagawea and Lewis’s Newfoundland dog Seaman as they travel on their expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific.
Setting: North America, 1803 – 1819
A Sampling of LOC Resources:Lewis and Clark (Themed Resources)Fill Up the Canvas (Presentation)Rivers, Edens, Empires (Exhibition)The Thomas Jefferson PapersMap Collections: Discovery and Exploration
Wolf, Allan. New Found Land: A Novel. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2004.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Jefferson’s cipherJefferson’s letter to Congress 1805 map
Followtheir trail..
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
View the online exhibition…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Cruzatte: Captain Lewis, this is the grand chief, Un-ton-gar Sar-bar, which means Buffle Noir.Drouillard: In English, Black Buffalo.Cruzatte: And this chief calls himself Tor-to-hon-gar.Drouillard: The Partisan.
I think it wise to use French between the two of us, Pierre, while together we attempt to translate from Sioux to English.
Cruzatte: I agree, my friend. With your knowledge of hand signs and my small knowledge of Sioux, we will act as one voice.
(p.191 - Meeting with the Teton Sioux)
Teaching Strategy: Use text selections to create Readers
Theater scripts.
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Links to LOC Resources:Lewis and Clark Journal Map of TrailInteractive Expedition (Flash)Lewis and Clark Virtual TourMeriwether Lewis PortraitWilliam Clark Portrait
Sue F. Williamson – Media, PA – Gifted Support Gr. 1-5 – July 26, 2007 (LOC Summer Institute)
Book Summary: Recounts the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the unchartered western wilderness, placing it in its historical context.
Setting: 1804 -1806 from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and back.
Teaching Idea: Organize a study group. Create and share book connections with your colleagues.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources
Try another PSI activity…Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Item 1
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An 1887 map of Maine…
A photograph by the water…
A 1903 newspaper article…
3 old baseball cards…New York Polo Grounds drawing…
1 baseball card of a NY pitcher…
What common thread connects these primary sources?
A second map…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Louis Sockalexis
(2008 Elementary Winner) Wise, Bill. Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer. Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. NY: Lee and Low Books, 2007.
Summary: A biography of Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis, who pursued his childhood love of baseball and eventually joined the Major Leagues where he faced
racism and discrimination with humility and courage as the first Native American to play professional baseball. Winner of
the 2008 Carter G. Woodson award.
(American Memory Collection) Baseball Cards, 1887-1914(Teachers Page) Baseball Themed Resources(Teachers Page) Baseball Primary Source Set
Teachers Page) Native American Themed Resources
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Idea: America’s Library has many stories about famous Americans that can “hook” students on biographies.
BookHook
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy: Explore the National Book Festival Teacher/Kids Page for author resources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Teaching Strategy:
Visit Scholastic’s Dear
America site for books
and relatedPrimary
sources…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Check out the Teacher’s Site…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Access LOC Primary Sources for each era…
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Sample template developed for Library of Congress Teacher Institute
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Now for a little stretch!
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources
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