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What’s In A Wallet?

Guide to Primary Source Interpretation. What’s In A Wallet?. Directions: Please get an appropriate personal item from your wallet, purse, backpack, ect . You will need a sheet of paper as well. We will use your personal item to simulate interpreting and analyzing a primary source. .

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What’s In A Wallet?

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  1. Guide to Primary Source Interpretation What’s In A Wallet?

  2. Directions: • Please get an appropriate personal item from your wallet, purse, backpack, ect. • You will need a sheet of paper as well. • We will use your personal item to simulate interpreting and analyzing a primary source. What’s In Your Wallet?

  3. Is it a document? Artifact? • Can you date the item? • What is most interesting about it? • (Features, things you notice) • What does it’s existence suggest about the owner? • What does it say about American Society? Questions…

  4. PRIMARYSOURCEVIDE0 To explain how major events are related to each other in time. To think critically and distinguish between fact and opinion. To recognize point of view in print and visual materials. To develop your own conclusions and analyze how historical events affect your life. Why Use Primary Sources

  5. Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period. You learn to question sources, assess their credibility, draw conclusions, and recognize that interpretations of history can differ. So What’s The Big Deal?

  6. Log into a computer • Go to the class website and download the pdf version of the Magna Carta. • With your partner, use the ACAPS primary source analysis sheet and answer the questions. • With your partner, answer the following question on the backside of the page: • Evaluate the impact of the Magna Carta on the people of England. Directions

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