Entry #6- Primary Sources

The primary sources article reminded me of the Triangle shirtwaist fire that I studied during high school. Several resources were given to us, such as pictures, newspaper articles and audio files and our goal was to evaluate the sources and communicate our conclusions based on those sources. Primary sources are first introduced during second grade but through several different activities students can become detectives, ask questions and draw conclusions from the sources that they have. For example, for the shirtwaist fire, our class had pictures and articles printed from the same day, our goal was to draw conclusion about what had happened. As this activity, helped me remember the event more, it will do the same to students who use primary sources to obtain information. The article, Junior Detectives, describes five different phases that must be used to have an effective lesson where students are able to think critically and draw conclusions from the sources that are presented to them. Through purposeful planning, students can be guided throughout the activity and be able to put all the clues together and draw conclusions about the events.

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Entry #2

The introduction of History as a Weapon reminded me of a history class I took here at the University of Houston, the professor started the lesson with a question in which he would answer throughout the lesson. When I first took history courses at the University level, I felt that I had been lied to my whole life because the history that was explained at the University was completely different to what high school teachers told me. The first thing that I did after a few history lectures, I decided to not think about what I “had been taught” in high school. Every week there was a new idea or a thought that conflicted with me, I either was surprised or interested at what had happened. Whenever I learned something interesting such as the reason for Thanksgiving or the way that religion was forced to Indians among other history topics, I was amused of how much it had been kept from me and the nature of people and their actions towards others that were different than them. A Brief Histo...

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Entry #8

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