Primary+Sources+and+PARCC

=Using Primary Sources witih PARCC Strategies=

Author's Attitude/Tone/Mood
"Why did the author write the text/create the primary source?" Use popsicle sticks to state a sentence with the emotion you draw. "I'd like some soup please." The sticks might have angry, fearful, shocked, etc. 3 People in a car activity-one person draws a popsicle stick with an emotion- all 3 have to wordlessly take on that emotion. Use famous quotes: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/vocab_African.swf http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/womens-words/alternative.html Read them with different emotions-which emotion fits? Look at these primary sources- What is the mood? How can you tell? http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/images/uc9616.jpg http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001003177/PP/

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/files/2014/07/8c13568r.jpg http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94500293/

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0209/images.html What is one emotion word that would go with each of the photos?

Passage of text: This story starts with a train rushing through the night. The full moon lights the silver rails winding around dark mountains, through deep woods, and over steep gorges of jagged rock and one freezing cold rushing black mountain river. From the Exquisite Corpse

Using a video to relay mood Why did the filmaker create this ad? media type="youtube" key="2msbfN81Gm0" width="420" height="315"

Author's Point of View
Text Theme, main idea or point of view How does the author's word choice detemrine the main idea? What evidence supports this?

Primary Source Why did the photographer take this photo? How does it make you feel? http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/hist-am-west/langarts4.html http://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=contributor%3Aadams%2C+ansel http://www.anseladams.com/contemporary-art/black-white-photography/

Dorthea Lange http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_lange_2.html Search Dorthea Lange site:loc.gov

When They Were Young http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/ Place these sentences with a photo- have the students express 'why' they think that sentence fits.

Character Personality
Personality or Motivation What words describe the character's personality and what evidence shows this? What words describe the chracter's movitivation and what evidence shows this?

Use a character trait word list to label famous people/historical figures http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson175/traits.pdf

Activity- casting a play and need characters that fit these traits- who would you put in that role? Why?

Evidence
No wrong answers - unless can't support the answer with evidence Answers are not as important as the evidence behind the answers Having an answer without evidence is not enough Can use this with all subjects, all the time Want to get to a point where the students ask you for evidence

Daily activity: Choose a primary source/photo/picture and let students label- with one word- but have to be able to tell why Students can't use a word someone else has used

http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/files/2011/10/houdini-lincoln.jpg http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a49425/ http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00327.htm