Multimodal Literacy Strategies With Primary Sources from The

Multimodal Literacy Strategies With Primary Sources from The Library of Congress 2018

Teaching with Primary Sources

Digital Resources for Teachers and Students

Primary Source Sets

Multimodal: two or more interdependent modes of communication to convey the intended message

Working definitions from the Library of Congress: Primary sources are the raw materials of history – original documents and objects created at the time under study. Secondary sources are accounts or interpretations created by someone without firsthand experience.

Primary Source Analysis Tool

List What You Observe • Ensure that Embedded Media is Compliant – Are embedded media and objects avoided? – If embedded media or objects must be used, is alternative text, a separate file or link and verbatim transcript Word document provided? • Test for Compliance – Was the document checked using the built-in Microsoft accessibility checker? – Can you navigate the presentation using only the keyboard? • Provide Accessible Alternative Versions – Is a verbatim transcript provided for the narrated presentation as a Word document? – Has a separate accessible version of the document been provided when there is no other way to make the content accessible? (Example: Organization Chart)

The Painting • Ensure that Embedded Media other way to make the content accessible? (Example: Organization Chart)

Citation and Further Research

Sample Blog about Primary Sources

“ I sell the shadow to support the substance. ”

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth and the Power of a Portrait

Instructional Possibilities Ø Jump In • Ø Strike a Pose Ø List the Objects Ø Fill a Thought Bubble

Chronicling America June 21, 1861

Original 1851 Report

The Speech “…I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint and a man a quart – why can’t she have her little pint full? . . . ” June 21, 1851

A Different Version by Frances Gage 1863

April 23, 1863 • “. . . Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns and no man could head me – and ar’n’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it and bear de lash as well! And ar’n’t I a woman? … I have borne thirteen chillen, and seen mos’ all sold off into slavery. . . “

Book Backdrops

Whose life is in the box? What do these clues tell us about this person? Ø First person opens clue #1. Discuss. Ø Pass the box to the next player and repeat the process until all clues have been examined and discussed. Ø.

The First Clue

Listen and underline sensory details: “Read my poem. Do you see autumn as I do? I wrote this poem when I was 13 for my friend Mr. A. G. Bell. ” -Helen Keller

Sensory perception and imagination

Pair with non-fiction

Support literature study

Hypothesize: What story does this tell?

Emerson to Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Newspaper Article

The Raven • Ensure that Embedded Media is Compliant – Are embedded media and objects avoided? – If embedded media or objects must be used, is alternative text, a separate file or link and verbatim transcript Word document provided? • Test for Compliance – Was the document checked using the built-in Microsoft accessibility checker? – Can you navigate the presentation using only the keyboard? • Provide Accessible Alternative Versions – Is a verbatim transcript provided for the narrated presentation as a Word document? – Has a separate accessible version of the document been provided when there is no other way to make the content accessible? (Example: Organization Chart)

A Variety of Resources • On following slides – Videos – Photographs – Audio-recordings – Thematic units – All primary resources

Photographs • Analyzed for – Perspective – Emotions – Senses evoked

The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 18961906

Children in History

A Western Family

Pictures of Child Labor

Child Labor in the Fields

Primary Source Photos and Writing Select a Photo and a mode of writing

Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature

Music Recordings

1968 Peace Corps Poster

Thematic Unit Materials • Primary Sources including: Civil Defense Films Pictures of historical events Documents from history

The Civil War

World War Photos

“ A Day that will live in infamy…”

September 11

Library of Congress • Connect with Educators – TPS – Teachers Network • Free Professional Development – Face-to-face and online courses – Teacher Institutes in Washington DC – Apply for teaching and primary sources regional grants

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