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Books Backdrops: Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources

Books Backdrops: Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources. Library of Congress - Summer Institute 2007 Adapted from Gail Petri - Education Resource Specialist - gpet@loc.gov.

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Books Backdrops: Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources

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  1. Books Backdrops:Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources Library of Congress - Summer Institute 2007 Adapted from Gail Petri - Education Resource Specialist - gpet@loc.gov

  2. Why teach with primary sources?Eighth-graders whose teachers reported using primary sources (such as letters, diaries or essays written by historical figures) on a weekly basis had higher average scores than those whose teachers reported doing so monthly or less frequently.Nation’s Report Card 2001, p.93

  3. Why teach with history through literature? One of the great lessons of history is that perspective matters. So before I start kids searching out details of battlesor other events in the past, I want to play with perspective a bit,using picture books to get my point acrossthat there's more than one way to look at a thing. -- Carol Otis Hurst, Carol Hurst’s children’s literature site

  4. Why teach with history through literature? Teachers know these novels focus a rich, human lenson a sometimes abstract topic. The stories and the livesof historical characters help readers see the detailsof everyday life that are not incorporated into textbooks.-- Cathy Beck, “Historical Fiction: Teaching Tool orLiterary Experience”, Language Arts, July 2000

  5. Why NOT combine them both!Literature +Primary Sources =Memorable,Meaningful, FunLearning!

  6. Try this PSI activity!(Primary Source Investigation) Observe the following images…

  7. What do you SEE? THINK? WONDER?

  8. Study the people and objects…

  9. What do you see in the background?

  10. Is this picture posed?

  11. What common thread connects these photographs?

  12. ALL were photographed byLewis Hine. ALL depict children. ALL show children at work.

  13. Do you want to find out more about child labor? Read! READ a book and CONNECT to primary sources.

  14. …inspired Elizabeth Winthrop The girl in this Lewis Hine photograph… …to write this historical fiction book about child labor in America.

  15. Winthrop, Elizabeth. “Searching for Addie: The Story behind a Famous Photograph.” Social Education 70 (4), 174-177.

  16. Learn about milllife in Lowell, MA in the 1800s in this picture book.

  17. Read 19th century periodical articles written about factory life in Lowell… A Sampling of LOC Resources:The Lowell Offering (1841 periodical review)The Lowell Offering (1844 periodical opinion letter)Among Lowell Mill Girls (1881 article)The Lowell Offering (1890 article)Lucy Larcom: A New England Girl (1890 book review)A Forgotten Industrial Experiment (1898 article)

  18. Work began at five o’clock on summer mornings, and at daylight in the winter. Breakfast was eaten by lamplight, during the cold weather; in summer, an interval of half an hour was allowed for it, between seven and eight o’clock. The time given for the noon meal was from a half to three quarters of an hour. The only hours of leisure were from half past seven or eight to ten in the evening, the mills closing a little earlier on Saturdays. It was an imperative regulation that lights should be out at ten. During those two evening hours, when it was too cold for the girls to sit in their own rooms, the dining-room was used as a sitting-room, where they gathered around the tables, and sewed, and read, and wrote, and studied. (p.599) Larcom, Lucy. “Among Lowell Mill Girls: A Reminiscence.” The Atlantic Monthly. 48 (289) 593-612.

  19. National Child Labor Committee Collection More than 5000 Lewis Hine photos are available in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.

  20. Begin making your own primary source connections at http://www.loc.gov

  21. Help your students to… …become hooked on history!

  22. You’ll find more than 12 million primary sources…. • Images • Documents • Maps • Sound files • Movies • Sheet music • Webcasts • And more…

  23. Click on American Memory… . . . then Go.

  24. American Memory … • Organized into 135 collections • Includes primary sources in all formats

  25. From the American Memory home page, click on Today in History . . . … or search the archives for a specific subject or date.

  26. Click on More Browse Options …

  27. or on List All Collections … … for even more options

  28. . . . arranged alphabetically.

  29. From the Library of Congress home page, click on Exhibitions …

  30. or World Digital Library … … for International resources

  31. Don’t miss Thomas . . . for legislative information.

  32. From the home page,click on Teachers to guide you…

  33. . . . to many more resources.

  34. such as Learning Page content with many classroom-tested lesson plans.

  35. From the home page,click on Kids and Families . . .

  36. . . . for even more links.

  37. Dive in and get started……strategies for success • Know your standards• Know your content• Select quality literature• Find diverse primary sources• Connect acrosscurriculum• Develop engaging activities• Collaborate with colleagues• Share your successes• Have fun!

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