Facilitator: Sharon L. Carter

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American Revolution/Primary Sources
A CCSD Teaching American History Grant Module
Facilitator Sharon L. Carter Content Scholars
Michael S. Green, Ph.D. and DeAnna Beachley,
Ph.D. Content Pedagogy Scholar Christy G.
Keeler, Ph.D.
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Agenda

• Sign-in/Materials Collection
• Welcome/Introductions
• Graduate Credit Sign-up
• Grant Evaluation Procedures
• Module Overview
• Content Presentation
• Break
• Pedagogy Presentation
• Closing

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Module Overview

• Review of Syllabus
• Course Expectations
• Review of Materials
• Technology Access
• Course blog
• Using iTunes
• Subscribing to podcasts
• InterAct Conferences (online/app)
• Firewalls

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Content Presentation

• Presented by
• Dr. Michael Green
• and
• Dr. DeAnna Beachley

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Break
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Pedagogy Presentation

• Using Primary Sources and Foldables to Encourage
  Historical Inquiry

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Historical Inquiry

• Teaching students to engage in the doing of
  history, involves a shift from an emphasis on a
  story well told (or, the story as told in the
  textbook), to an emphasis on sources well
  scrutinized....Where students pose questions,
  collect and analyze sources, struggle with issues
  of significance, and ultimately build their own
  historical interpretations
• -Levstik in Doolittle, Hicks, Ewing (2005)

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Historical Inquiry

• Defined
• Asking historical questions and seeking
  evidence-based interpretations
• Process
• Engage student interest in a problem
• Form and record a hypotheses
• Gather evidence using multiple media formats
  (e.g., reading, Internet searches, audio or video
  reports)
• Organize and interpret information to draw
  conclusions
• Publicize conclusions

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The Evidence

• Why seek evidence?
• Primary Sources
• Primary vs. secondary sources
• Types
• Methods of use

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Selection Primary Sources

• Interest
• Reading level
• Length
• Points of view
• Variety of sources
• Location
• -From Kathy Schrock presentation
• (citation learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/fw.html)
  

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Primary Sources

• Accessing Primary Sources Online
• http//kathyschrock.net/navigating/index.htm

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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Primary Source Examples (Schrock)
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Foldables

• Examples
• and
• Assignment Expectations

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Foldables
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Foldables
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Foldables
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Content Resources for Teaching

• Podcasts
• and
• Video Streaming

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Assignments

• This week
• Subscribe to podcasts
• Read Woods text
• Next week
• Foldable
• Lecture on Revolutionary Women
• Libertys Kids
• Optional Using unitedstreaming
• Next session
• Bring foldable

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Getting Help

• Sharon L. Carter (grant facilitation)
• On InterAct
• Dr. Michael S. Green (content)
• On InterAct
• Dr. DeAnna Beachley (content)
• On InterAct
• Dr. Christy Keeler (pedagogy)
• [phone]
• christy_at_keelers.com

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American Revolution/Primary Sources
A CCSD Teaching American History Grant Module
Facilitator Sharon L. Carter (on
InterAct) Content Scholars Michael S. Green,
Ph.D. and DeAnna Beachley, Ph.D. (on
InterAct) Content Pedagogy Scholar Christy G.
Keeler, Ph.D. (702.577-2331, christy_at_keelers.com)