Primary Sources, Blended Learning and the Common Core

 

Linda Lackey – http://myreadinglife.blogspot.com/

David Lackey – http://www.dlackey.org

 

September 11th and the Contemporary American Novel - Walking in Oskar’s Shoes
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close anchors an exploration of 9/11 using digital archives and interactive media. Tech connect – Internet, YouTube, online digital mapping

 

1.     Introduction Activity – Uses color copies from The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11

2.     Falling Man Documentary – YouTube link

3.     Sleeping Bag of Himself – Group drawing and annotation activity

4.     Oscar’s Mapped Journey – Web-based exploration using pedometer mapping site

5.     Story Corps Audio Memories – Listening activity

6.     Man on a Wire Documentary – YouTube clips and children’s book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

7.     9/11 Memorial – Website with Teach + Learn materials

 

Teaching with Primary Sources – The U.S. Library of Congress American Memory Collection
Pairing Whitman, Twain, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald with digitized archives, including photographs, oral histories and printed ephemera. Tech connect - Internet, laptop, iPad

 

1.     Walt Whitman Drum Taps poems

2.     Walt Whitman: Poet at Work – Notebooks 1850s-1860s at America Memory

3.     Matthew Brady Civil War Photography at American Memory

4.     PBS Civil War Program – Ken Burns

5.     PBS Death and The Civil War – American Experience

6.     Activity – Civil War Photography Analysis

 

Multi-Genre Research - Steinbeck Then and Now

Explore multiple information sources to illustrate contemporary issues from The Grapes of Wrath:  Environment, Work, Family, Economy, Spirituality, or Society/Government.

 

1.     Primary Source – The Grapes of Wrath

2.     Secondary Sources – NYTimes articles about weather and food

3.     Film/Video – Dirt and Food Inc.

4.     Music – Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen

5.     Archival Photography - America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

6.     Annotated Bibliography – Purdue OWL

 

 

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