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Gail Petri, Education Resource Specialist gpet@loc.gov

Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning with Literature and Library of Congress

Primary Sources (Part 2)

Gail Petri, Primary Source Consultant gail.petri@gmail.com

Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources

Part 2

mailto:gpet@loc.gov

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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b

The Civil War….Summary: Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.

Setting: Civil War period, Georgia A Sampling of LOC Resources: Civil War Themed Resource Page Selected Civil War Photographs Collection

Civil War Treasures Collection Andersonville Prison (1864 map) Civil War Stories (America’s Library)

Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-war/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(gvhs01+vhs00039))

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_subj.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-war/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

“This is the hand that has touched

the hand, that has touched the hand, that shook

the hand of Abraham Lincoln.”

Patricia Polacco

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@field(NUMBER+@band(cwp+4a40254))

Sheldon Russell Curtis was released from Andersonville

after several months and recoverd to tell

his story. Pinkus Aylee was hanged soon after he was

imprisoned.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/gvhs01.vhs00303

Teaching Strategy:

Use a primary sourceto connect with a book -

and a momentin history.

http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/lincoln/vignettes/CandidateLincoln/ExhibitObjects/GrowingWhiskers.aspx

http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/lincoln/vignettes/CandidateLincoln/ExhibitObjects/LincolnPortrait.aspx

Students can read the book and locate “evidence” that supports the story.

Winnick, Karen. Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1996.

BookHook

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a18217

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.01637

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/summary.aspx?id=49&totalSelected=0&totalTime=0:00&added=false&activitiesList=&goalState=

Check out more books about Lincoln!

BookHook

Explore the Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources

http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/lincoln/Pages/Default.aspx

http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/lincoln/Pages/default.aspx

Find even more connections at the Abraham Lincoln Themed Resources Page

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/lincoln/

Read a biography about another person living during the same time period…

Kerley, Barbara. Walt Whitman: Words for America. NY: Scholastic, 2004.

BookHook

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00255

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/

Teaching Strategy: Use a passage from a prose source to create found poetry.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/poetry/

Success with found poetry!Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources

You’ll find many more Civil War books?

BookHook

A new Civil War story based on a true event…

Shenandoah Valley from Maryland Heights (1864 drawing by Alfred R. Waud)

BookHook

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05738

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4196

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004660474/

Learn more about James Swanson

at the NBF Kids and Teachers Page

…

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/kids-teachers/authors/james_l_swanson

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/kids-teachers/

Frontier life….Summary: When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. Setting: Midwestern state, prairie, late 1800sA Sampling of LOC Resources: Northern Great Plains Collection Prairie Settlement Collection Women Pioneers: Westward Patricia MacLachlan Cybercast Journeys West Lesson Plan

MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. NY: Harper and Row, 1985

BookHook

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_civilwar.php

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/women-pioneers/

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/kids-teachers/authors/patricia_maclachlan

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/journeys/

Lesson plans offer teaching ideas…

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/journeys/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/hult_sod.html

A picture can be worth a thousand words when describing a “mail-order wife”.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p2882))

Teaching Strategy: Learn

more about historical eras through letters written during

the time period.

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Mattie V. Oblinger and Ella Oblinger, November 3-5, 1872

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(l082))

More moving West connections….

Summary: Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.Setting: Illinois to Nebraska, 1800sA sampling of LOC Resources:Explore the States: Nebraska (America’s Library)Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska (1855 map)Kate Dunlap’s Diary (1865 diary)Millions of Acres. Iowa and Nebraska (1872 broadside)

BookHook

Bunting, Eve. Dandelions. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ne

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4200.ct000891

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/herstory/civilwar.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+13401300))

Teaching Strategy: Start locally with primary sources.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/states/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/states/illinois/index.html

Teaching Strategy: Analyze a map with your students.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Maps.pdf

1584 map

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3290.ct001038r

Teaching Strategy: Compare/contrast how a place has changed over time.

19001839

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3931p.rr00197

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3930.ct000732

Immigration to America….Summary: A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.Setting: Eastern Europe, shipboard across ocean, Ellis Island, New York City, 1890s-early 1900sA Sampling of LOC Resources:Immigration Themed ResourcesTeacher Page Immigration Presentation

Ellis Island ImagesStatue of Liberty ImagesEmigrants Landing at Ellis Island (film)

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/immigration/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/070_immi.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/077_stat.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2a10987))

Immigration….Summary: Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.Setting: New York City, 1911A Sampling of LOC Resources:Immigration (Themed Resources)Immigration (Presentation)Ellis Island Images (P and P)Statue of Liberty Images (P and P) Hester Street (panoramic picture)Flower making (Louis Hine photograph)Triangle Waist Co. fire (P and P)Life of a City (early films of NY)

Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses. NY: H. Holt, 2002.

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/immigration/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/070_immi.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/077_stat.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a12044))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/nclc:@field(NUMBER+@band(nclc+04139))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b37414))+@field(COLLID+ggbain))

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html

Traveling on the ship…Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a13598)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a13598

First view of the Statue of Liberty…

Teaching Strategy: Use an image as a story starter or a prompt for writing dialogue.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b49155)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3b49155

Arrival at Ellis Island…Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a17784)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a17784

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gdc3&fileName=scd0001_20040315002oupage.db&recNum=2

Look closely at a Lewis Hine photograph…

Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning With Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/nclc:@field(NUMBER+@band(nclc+04139))

Observe the details in a panoramic photograph…

View a film from the time period…

Teaching Strategy: Have students write a narrative to accompany a period film.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(lcmp002+m2a27007))

Read a newspaper account… account…

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c22315))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Teaching Strategy: Compare books written on the same topic.

BookHook

1893 Chicago World’s Fair….Summary: Thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to attend the World's Columbian Exposition. Setting: Chicago, 1893A Sampling of LOC Resources: World’s Fair, 1893 (panoramic photo)Birds Eye View (1893map)Opening Day (1893 photograph)The Ferris Wheel (1893article)Helen Keller Letter (1893 letter)To-day’s Events (1893 broadside)Annie Oakley (Edison movie) Buffalo Bill (1890s poster)

Peck, Richard. Fair Weather: A Novel. New York: Dial Books, 2001

BookHook

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c28873))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4104c+pm001522))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0025-457_bib))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=124/12400303/bellpage.db&recNum=0

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0180370d))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4030))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a25408))+@field(COLLID+cph))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c28873))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4104c+pm001522))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=124/12400303/bellpage.db&recNum=0

Teaching Strategy: Pair historical fiction titles with non-fiction books on the same topic – and provide books on different reading levels for various abilities.

Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City. NY: Crown, 2003

BookHook

Women’s Suffrage….Summary: On Election Day 1880, the women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton teaches her young neighbor a lesson.Setting: New Jersey, 1880A sampling of LOC Resources:Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America’s Library)1895 Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Women’s BibleOne Hundred Years Toward Suffrage (timeline)The Seneca Falls ConventionVoices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies (lesson plan)

BookHook

McCully, Emily Arnnold. The Ballot Box Battle

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/stanton

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/049))

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr040.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/00/suffrage/index.html

A murder that lives on….Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. Setting: Adirondack Mountains, NY; 1906A Sampling of LOC Resources:The Glenmore, Big Moose, NY (photograph)New York Central and Hudson River RR (map)Portrait of Theodore Dreiser (photograph)Beyond LOC:An Adirondack Murder (North Country Radio)

Murder Trial of Chester Gillette (NY Courts)Craig Brandon (author Web site)Reader’s Guide to A Northern Light

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light. San Diego: Harcourt, 2003.

BookHook

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3711p+rr004880))+@field(COLLID+rrmap))-

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a52278))+@field(COLLID+van))

http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/americantragedy.php

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/history/gillette.htm

http://www.craigbrandon.com/MITAhome.html

http://www.jenniferdonnelly.com/jd_guide.htm

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a10997)):displayType=1:m856sd=pan:m856sf=6a10997

Grace Brown died here 100 years ago.

Her story lives on in fact and fiction today.

World War I….Summary: After his older brother Casey goes off to fight in World War I, Aubrey and his family are so worried that Aubrey writes a letter to Uncle Sam asking him to send Casey home.Setting: Brooklyn, NY and Broussey, France A Sampling of LOC Resources: I Want You for the Army (poster) Over There (recording) On the Homefront (Learning Page activity)Stars and Stripes (Newspaper Collection) WWI Diary (Veteran’s History Project)

Rabin, Staton. Illustrated by Greg Shed. Casey Over There. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994.

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vssnde.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/homefront/index.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/homefront/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/

Teaching Strategy: Read diaries and

memoirs to learn more about historical eras.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/pageturner?ID=pm0001001&page=5

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/pageturner?ID=pm0001001&page=3

www.loc.gov/teachers/

World War II….Summary: After his plane is shot down by Hitler’s Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester strives to walk across France, with the help of the French resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit. Setting: World War II, 1944, FranceA Sampling of LOC Resources:World War II Military Situation MapsVeterans History Project D-Day the 6th of June: Normany 1944 (map)After the Day of Infamy and also: Laura Elliott Web site

Elliott, L.M. Under a War-Torn Sky. NY: Hyperion, 2001.

BookHook

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/html/search/search.html

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5833n.ct001239

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html

http://www.lmelliott.com/

www.loc.gov/teachers/

Teaching Strategy: Locate the settings of the story on a map of the period.

Teaching Strategy: Search the Veterans History database for World War II stories.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02220/

Japanese Internment….

Summary: When seven-year-old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves behind a special symbol.Setting: Site of Manzanar Relocation Camp, 1972 A Sampling of LOC Resources: Suffering Under a Great Injustice (Ansel Adams Collection)American Memory Timeline

Bunting, Eve. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. So Far From the Sea. NY: Clarion Books, 1998.

BookHook

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/wwarii/japanam.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/manzanar/

Teaching Strategy: Use collection subject guides as search tools and vocabulary development resources.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/manzSubjects02.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3f03697))

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppprs+00210))

Civil Rights….Summary: Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.Setting: Mississippi, 1950sA sampling of LOC Resources:Civil Rights (Themed Resources)With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty (Exhibition)Voices of Civil Rights (Exhibition)Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination (P and P)

Coleman, Evelyn. White Socks Only. Morton Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1996.

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-rights/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html

As a way of remembering 911….

Summary: The story of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.Setting: New York City, August 7, 1974 A Sampling of LOC Resources: September 11, 2001 Documentary Project

Witness and Response Exhibition

Gerstein, Mordecai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2003.

BookHook

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/

Keep your eyes open for new titles….

BookHook

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2009/toolkit/authors/bio_wnaiyomah.html

If your students…

Read quality literatureAND

Explore primary sources

They will …

make connectionsAND

enjoy learning

about the past!

Have fun making history“come alive”

with your own Book Hooks

to primarysources!

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/wpapos:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b48716))

BookHooks

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+14801300))

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ca/ca1500/ca1512/photos/015956pv.jpg

Teaching Strategy: Check out the bi-monthly column – The LOC

Connection!

Stay connectedas you sow the

seeds of learning with

primary sources…share your treasures

with colleagues!

Questions/Ideas/Feedback??

Gail Petri gail.petri@gmail.com

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