1. Puzzled Over Primary Sources
Amanda H. Smith
Museum Teaching Specialist

2. Reading Like a Historian
Reading Skills
Questions
Students should be able to…
Source
-Who wrote this?
-Why was it written?
Identify the author’s position on the historical event.
Context
-When was it written?
-Where was it written?
Understand how background information influences the context of the document.
Close Reading
-What does the author say?
Identify the author’s claims about an event.
Compare
-Where can you go to learn more about this subject?
-What do other documents say?
Comparing documents to each other.

3. Finding Primary Sources
Fulton County School’s Archives
-Curiosity Corner
-Contact Archivist
Library of Congress
-Analysis Tools for Students
-Primary Source Sets
Safari Montage
-Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century
-Almanac Newsreel

4. Document Based Questions
Historical Context: Providing background on the primary source.
Task: Question that students are attempting to answer.
-Make the question interesting
-Doesn’t have to have a right or wrong answer
-Students have to support answer with evidence from document(s)
Document(s) with Scaffolding Questions: Each document comes with 2-3 questions to help guide the students thinking.

5. DBQ Topics
PreK/Kindergarten: Symbols Document A: Lincoln Memorial Document B: Washington Memorial Document C: White House Document D: Statue of Liberty 1st Grade: Lewis and Clark Document A: Canoe with carved images Document B: Head of a White Gull Document C: Evergreen Shrub Leaf Document D: White Salmon Trout Document E: Indians 2nd Grade: Creek and Cherokee Document A: Village Document B: Eating Document C: Fishing Document D: Cooking

6. DBQ Topics
3rd Grade: Native Americans Document A: Village Document B: Eating Document C: Fishing Document D: Cooking 4th Grade: Fredrick Douglass Document A: Douglass Editorial in North Star Document B: Douglass Speech to American Equal Rights Association Document C: Douglass Editorial in the New National Era Document D: Douglass Speech to International Council of Women Document E: Stanton Letter on Douglass’s death 5th Grade: Eleanor Roosevelt Document A: Image of Roosevelt speaking at United Nations Document B: United Declaration of Human Rights Preamble Document C: Roosevelt’s Remarks on the adoption of the Universal Delectation of Human Rights Document D: The Promise of Human Rights Article