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Book Backdrops: Connecting Literature and Primary Sources

Book Backdrops: Connecting Literature and Primary Sources. A presentation of Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee. What is ?. Educational Outreach program of the Library of Congress Mission: to provide educators with

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Book Backdrops: Connecting Literature and Primary Sources

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  1. Book Backdrops:Connecting Literatureand Primary Sources A presentation of Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee

  2. What is ? • Educational Outreach program of the Library of Congress • Mission: to provide educators with • Skills to use the Library of Congress Web site most effectively • Strategies and materials to engage students with primary sources for increasing higher order thinking skills

  3. What can Teaching with Primary Sources do for you? • Workshops • Educator materials • Professional development / in-service credit • Stipends for lesson plans

  4. Book Backdrops • Activity incorporating literacy skills with English/Language Arts and Social Studies • Professional development plan (online) from TPS Direct: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/exports/fullexport/Book-Backdrops.pdf

  5. Book Backdrops • Connecting books (fiction and non-fiction) to primary sources • For example…

  6. Book: Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers by Karen Winnick(1999) Primary source:

  7. Book: The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde (1895) Primary source:

  8. To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee (1960)

  9. Handout:Creating Book BackdropsUsing the Inquiry Method • Build vocabulary • Connect to people, dates, events • Search for primary sources • Use primary sources as basis for discussion

  10. Vocabulary Page # Context in book

  11. Page # Person Date Event Place Context in book / history

  12. Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns one dollar a day

  13. The farmers’ exchange, Enterprise, Alabama, where many of the Coffee County FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers purchase their supplies. Coffee County, Alabama

  14. Street scene, Greensboro, Alabama

  15. Farm folk spend a day in town. Eden, Alabama

  16. WPA life history

  17. Folk song recording:Come up, Horsey, Hey, Heyhttp://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lomaxbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(l2680a3))

  18. Lesson plan from Library of Congress Teachers Page:To Kill a Mockingbird:A Historical Perspectivehttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/mockingbird/

  19. Contact me!Stacey GrahamProject Coordinator, Teaching with Primary Sources Across TennesseeCenter for Historic PreservationMTSU Box 80Murfreesboro, TN 37132(615) 494-8783Stacey.Graham@mtsu.edu

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