Multimodal Literacy Strategies With Primary Sources from The Library of Congress

1. Multimodal Literacy StrategiesWith Primary Sources fromThe Library of Congress 2018

2. Teaching with Primary Sources

3. Digital Resources for Teachers and Students

4. Primary Source Sets

5. Multimodal: two or more interdependent modes of communication to convey the intended message

6. Working definitions from the Library of Congress: Primary sources are the raw materials of history – original documents and objects created at the time under study. Secondary sources are accounts or interpretations created by someone without firsthand experience.

7. Primary Source Analysis Tool

8. List What You Observe • Ensure that Embedded Media is Compliant • Are embedded media and objects avoided? • If embedded media or objects must be used, is alternative text, a separate file or link and verbatim transcript Word document provided? • Test for Compliance • Was the document checked using the built-in Microsoft accessibility checker? • Can you navigate the presentation using only the keyboard? • Provide Accessible Alternative Versions • Is a verbatim transcript provided for the narrated presentation as a Word document? • Has a separate accessible version of the document been provided when there is no other way to make the content accessible? (Example: Organization Chart)

9. The Painting • Ensure that Embedded Media other way to make the content accessible? (Example: Organization Chart)

10. Citation and Further Research

11. Sample Blog about Primary Sources

12. “ I sell the shadow to support the substance.”

13. Sojourner Truth

14. Sojourner Truth and the Power of a Portrait

15. Instructional Possibilities • Jump In • Strike a Pose • List the Objects • Fill a Thought Bubble

16. ChroniclingAmerica June 21, 1861

17. Original 1851 Report

18. The Speech “…I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint and a man a quart – why can’t she have her little pint full? . . . ” June 21, 1851

19. A Different Version by Frances Gage 1863

20. April 23, 1863 • “. . . Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns and no man could head me – and ar’n’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it and bear de lash as well! And ar’n’t I a woman? … I have borne thirteen chillen, and seen mos’ all sold off into slavery . . . “

21. Book Backdrops

22. Whose life is in the box? What do these clues tell us about this person? • First person opens clue #1. Discuss. • Pass the box to the next player and repeat the process until all clues have been examined and discussed. • .

23. The First Clue

24. Listen and underline sensory details: “Read my poem. Do you see autumn as I do? I wrote this poem when I was 13 for my friend Mr. A.G. Bell.” -Helen Keller

25. Sensory perception and imagination

26. Pair with non-fiction

27. Support literature study

28. Hypothesize:What story does this tell?

29. Emerson to Whitman

30. Emily Dickinson

31. Edgar Allan Poe

32. Newspaper Article

33. The Raven • Ensure that Embedded Media is Compliant • Are embedded media and objects avoided? • If embedded media or objects must be used, is alternative text, a separate file or link and verbatim transcript Word document provided? • Test for Compliance • Was the document checked using the built-in Microsoft accessibility checker? • Can you navigate the presentation using only the keyboard? • Provide Accessible Alternative Versions • Is a verbatim transcript provided for the narrated presentation as a Word document? • Has a separate accessible version of the document been provided when there is no other way to make the content accessible? (Example: Organization Chart)

34. A Variety of Resources • On following slides • Videos • Photographs • Audio-recordings • Thematic units • All primary resources

35. Photographs • Analyzed for • Perspective • Emotions • Senses evoked

36. The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1896-1906

37. Children in History

38. A Western Family

39. Pictures of Child Labor

40. Child Labor in the Fields

41. Primary Source Photos and Writing • Select a Photo and a mode of writing

42. Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature

43. Music Recordings

44. 1968 Peace Corps Poster

45. Thematic Unit Materials • Primary Sources including: Civil Defense Films Pictures of historical events Documents from history

46. The Civil War

47. World War Photos

48. “ A Day that will live in infamy…”

49. September 11

50. Library of Congress • Connect with Educators • TPS • Teachers Network • Free Professional Development • Face-to-face and online courses • Teacher Institutes in Washington DC • Apply for teaching and primary sources regional grants