Teacher

Unit Two: Touring the Web Site

Complete all of these activities.

Finding Documents (1 class period)

Procedure:

1. Students need Internet access for this exercise.
2. Direct students to the Lesson Toolkit.
3. Guide students through the finding documents tutorial.

Procedure:

1. Students need Internet access for this exercise.
2. Direct students to the Lesson Toolkit.
3. Guide students through the interpreting documents tutorial.

Procedure:

This activity is the heart of the unit. Sufficient time and attention should be provided for students to complete their analyses of the primary source sets.

1. This activity consists of seven topics: Family, Work, Play, Faith, Education, Race, Violence. These topics are not laid out in a prescribed order. Each topic presents a selection of text, photographic, and audio primary sources drawn from several American Memory collections. The colored navigation bar below provides links to materials for each topic.

Family

Work

Play

Faith

Education

Race

Violence

2. Assign topics to small groups of students.
3. Before beginning, read and discuss the cautionary notes with students - many of the primary sources contain hurtful stereotypes that should be handled with sensitivity.
4. Have students view the primary sources within their topic, using the skills they learned in the interpreting documents tutorial.
5. Students complete a response journal for each item they analyze. This journal allows students to record information about and their reactions to the primary sources. Note: The response journal is required for several of the follow-up activities.