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Title: Document Analysis


1
Document Analysis
  • American Indian Removal
  • A Case Study

2
Document Analysis
  • What is a document?
  • A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter
    that provides information or evidence, or that
    serves as an official record.

3
Document Analysis
  • Documents Are Everywhere
  • You probably have some with you!

4
Document Analysis
  • Questions to ask
  • When was it created?
  • Who created it?
  • Why?
  • Why do we care?
  • Is this an original or a transcript?

5
Document Analysis
  • Reading original vs. reading a transcript Which
    is better and why?
  • Transcript is easier to read.
  • Some documents dont translate well into text.

6
Document Analysis Activity
  • KGQ Analysis
  • What do you know?
  • What can you guess?
  • What questions do you still have?
  • Keeping in mind who, when, why, and what is
    important

7
KGQ Analysis
8
Document Analysis Activity
  • The Documents
  • Letter from Isaac Peirce in Ohio to Jeffrey
    Matthewson, May 12, 1794
  • Petition from Tarhe to the Governor of Ohio, May
    8, 1810
  • McPhersons Land Grant Paperwork, 1820-1832

9
Document Analysis
  • Discuss
  • What do you know?
  • What can you guess?
  • What questions do you still have?
  • How can you answer your remaining questions?

10
Document Analysis
  • What sources can help answer the remaining
    questions?
  • Diaries
  • Photographs
  • Drawings and Paintings
  • Maps
  • Statistical Sources
  • Oral histories
  • More documents!
  • Other Sources?

11
Document Analysis
  • Where could you find these sources?
  • Ohio Historical Society
  • Local library
  • Local historical society
  • Web
  • People in the community
  • Where else?

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