West Virginia Primary Sources
Carole Marsh
Paperback
(Gallopade, April 1, 2013)
The West Virginia Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in West Virginia. We have created a FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.The West Virginia Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: • Analysis• Critical Thinking• Point of View• Compare and Contrast• Order of Events• And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The West Virginia Primary Sources are: 1. Advertisement for an escaped slave from Hampshire County, West Virginia – 18452. Map of the routes of the Underground Railroad through West Virginia – 18553. Illustration of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia – published November 18594. Photograph of John S. Carlile, leader during the First Wheeling Convention – 18615. Illustration of the daring ride of Colonel Lander at the Battle of Philippi – 18616. Illustration of Francis H. Pierpont, known as the "Father of West Virginia" - 18617. Map of the proposed State of Kanawha – 18628. Photograph of the Wheeling Post Office – also known as the West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention – 18629. Replica of a bill on the admission of West Virginia to the Union – 186210. County map of Virginia and West Virginia – 186311. Illustration of Morgantown, West Virginia – drawn by T. M. Fowler – 189712. Replica of a postcard of the Market House and Town Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia – built in 1822 – weekly slave auctions were held here – 190013. Photograph of the entrance to a coal mine – September 190814. Young driver working in Brown Mine in Brown, West Virginia – 190815. Photograph of a worker weaving at the Tygart Valley Homesteads – August 193616. Photograph of children of miners in Scott’s Run, West Virginia – March 193717. Photograph of the interior of the Jero WPA nursery – these children are from unemployed miners’ homes – March 19, 193718. Miners playing cards during coal strike – Kempton, West Virginia – 193919. Photograph of a Saturday afternoon street scene in Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia – August 194620. Photograph of houses, coal cars, and church in Gary, West Virginia – 1946Your students will: • think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. • participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations. • integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. • experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.
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