Welcome! Teaching with the Library of Congress and Locating Primary Source Documents to Support Common Core November 5, 2012 Created by Stormy Vogel

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Primary source Primary sources are the raw materials of history – original documents and objects which were created at the time of study. Created by Stormy Vogel

Secondary sources Secondary sources are accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience Created by Stormy Vogel

What would a person from the future be able to tell about your life and society based on the evidence of your daily activities? Created by Stormy Vogel

Think about all the activities you were involved in during the past 2 days List any evidence these activities leave behind (receipts, notes, etc.) Created by Stormy Vogel

Last 48 hours activities ActivityEvidence Created by Stormy Vogel

Primary source: Enables researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened Reflects individual viewpoint, making the event more real May challenge assumptions about an event – researcher uses critical thinking Created by Stormy Vogel

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Examples of a primary source: Created by Stormy Vogel

Bibliographic Organizer ImageTitle/Author/DatePersistent URL/ Digital ID Citation Title: [Manuscript letter from Thomas E. French to Ruthven Deane about French's design of a bookplate for archaeologist William C. Mills] By French, Thomas Ewing, , 1917 Oct. 30th tures/item/ / LC-DIG-ppmsca Citation [Front cover of Jackie Robinson comic book]. c np/ppmsc ppmsc Citation Created by Stormy Vogel

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Works Cited Bonn, Philip. Schenectady, New York. A pupil at the Elmer Avenue Elementary School talking over his report card with his teacher. c1943 June. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Web. 15 May French, Thomas Ewing. [Manuscript letter from Thomas E. French to Ruthven Deane about French's design of a bookplate for archaeologist William C. Mills]. c1917. Oct. 30th. Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Web. 15 May Created by Stormy Vogel

Hine, Lewis Wickes. Fourteen year old spinner in a[?] Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. c1913. National Child Labor Committee Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Web. 15 May Howard, H. C. For president, Abram Lincoln. For vice president, Hannibal Hamlin. c1860. Popular Graphic Arts. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Web. 15 May Created by Stormy Vogel

[Jackie Robinson comic book, front cover]. c1951. Baseball and Jackie Robinson. Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. American Memory Collection. Library of Congress. Web. May 15, Lange, Dorothea. Migrant Mother. c1936. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Web. 15 may Created by Stormy Vogel

"Library of Congress Home." Library of Congress. US Government. Web. 21 May Tet Offensive. Discovery Education Discovery Education. Web. 15 May Waldseemüller, Martin. Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes. c1507. American Memory Map Collections. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Web. 15 May