Books in Primary Source History series

The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics’ Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The Colonial America Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.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 HERE to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.>Colonial America Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards! Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. The 20 Colonial America Primary Sources are: 1. Map of "James Fort" at Jamestown – 16072. Painting (1932) entitled The Mayflower Compact, 1620 depicts the signing of the first political document in colonial American history – 16203. Depictions of the first "Thanksgiving" held in 16214. Illustration of Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1664, located on what is now Manhattan Island in New York City5. Replica of painting of slaves in Virginia processing tobacco for export – 16706. Portrait of a Puritan woman and her baby – late 1600s7. Illustration of early shipbuilding in a New England colony – late 1600s8. Oil painting entitled The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 – William Penn, standing, faces King Charles II in the king’s breakfast chamber – 16809. Illustration entitled "Indian Raid in 1675" during King Philip’s War in Massachusetts10. Illustrations of early colonial tools and equipment – 170611. A colonial Quaker meeting with a woman preaching – early 1700s12. Illustration of the planned city of Savannah, Georgia – 173413. Illustration of Harvard College in Massachusetts – 174014. Illustration of a rice plantation in the southern colonies – 1750s15. First-hand account of the passage by ship to colonial America – 175016. Details from a map showing barrels of tobacco from Virginia and Maryland being loaded onto ships – 175117. Print of the Bodleian Plate, depicting the colonial architecture of Colonial Williamsburg – 178118. Illustration of British ships and soldiers arriving in Boston Harbor – 176819. Illustration (1932) of the reading of the Declaration of Independence from the East Balcony of the Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts – July 18, 177620. Map of the original thirteen colonies created for the United States centennial in 1876Your 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.

Throughout the 1800s millions of people pushed into the western United States. They went for gold, opportunities, and a chance for a better life. But as settlers moved in, American Indians were often pushed out. Hear the words they spoke. Read the words they read. And see the differing points of view about westward expansion through the eyes of the people who lived it.

More than 200 years ago, Great Britain ruled the American colonies. Many colonists believed the British were ruling them unfairly. But many others wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain. Hear the words they spoke. Read the words they read. And see the differing points of view about the fight for U.S. Independence through the eyes of the people who lived it.

Throughout the 1800s millions of people pushed into the western United States. They went for gold, opportunities, and a chance for a better life. But as settlers moved in, American Indians were often pushed out. Hear the words they spoke. Read the words they read. And see the differing points of view about westward expansion through the eyes of the people who lived it.