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Last Updated: March 22, 2023

Teaching Historical Contextualization using Gale's In Context Primary Sources

Use the Primary Sources provided within Gale in Context: High School, Middle School, U.S. History, and World History to support primary source analysis and teaching historical contextualization within your Social Studies classroom. In this session we discuss how to create analysis activities as well as where to find some premade examples in order to meet the needs of your Social Studies learning standards.
Duration: 45 Minutes
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What we are going to look at today is

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looking at teaching historical contextualization

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through Gale in Context's primary

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sources. And so

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um I am a former social studies

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teacher, I taught us history in the classroom

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for about 15 years. And

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we are going to look at some

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of the things that I created in

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order to be able to use in the classroom.

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So a brief agenda of what we

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are looking at again is an overview

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of the importance of historical contextualization

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and using primary sources. I wanted to highlight

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a couple of national standards

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and what those national

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standards say should be taught in the

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classroom. And then I want to look at how

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gas and con text can support

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those national standards and

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teaching those in the classroom through

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two ways. One is accessing

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the premade lesson plans that we have made

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for you in doing this, but also

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some tips and tricks on how to create some

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custom lessons using those

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resources.

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And then as always, um

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I want to end with some time

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for questions and some support

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before I sort of let you go today.

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So starting off with common

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core literacy standards on primary

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sources. Now, I do know that

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a lot of states have also adopted

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standards that are dealing

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with primary and secondary sources.

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Um, but since this is

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a Webinar that goes across

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the United States, I wanted to stick

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to some of our national standards. And one of those

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are the common core literacy standards and

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those are divided up into

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ninth and 10th grade standards and then 11th and 12th

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grade standards. And you're gonna see the 11th and 12th

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grade standards sort of

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Um bump up from the 9th and 10th grade

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standards. But starting out with the 9th and 10th

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grade, it talks about citing specific

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textual evidence to support

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analysis of both primary and

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secondary sources and attending to such

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features as the date and origin

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of the information. And what you're gonna see

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is these lesson plans typically

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deal with both primary and secondary

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sources. And one of the very first questions

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most of these are going to ask is when

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is this written? And what style

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is it written? What type of document are

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we looking at? And so hopefully

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it's really teaching students to analyze

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the sourcing information of what they're looking

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for before just diving into

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the main content, which supports that

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common core standard.

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The next is determining the central idea

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or information of that primary or secondary

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source and providing an accurate

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summary of how key events or ideas develop

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over the course of the text. And So

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you're gonna see the question of like, what's the

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overall point of this? What point are they

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trying to get across?

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Moving on to the 11th

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and 12th grade standards, which get a little bit

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more complex, looks at sort

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of the complex primary source structure,

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um how it's structured,

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what kind of ideas are

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um given out based on the structure

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And then integrate those information from

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diverse sources of both primary and secondary

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sources into the understanding of an

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event, noticing the discrepancy

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among the sources. And so a lot of

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times this is comparing two different sources.

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And so this is something that you could build on to

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these individual lessons using

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a secondary one.

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And so what you're gonna see is that all of these

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lessons are going to support some of

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these common core literacy standards,

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even though they are typically being taught

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in the social studies classroom. These can

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also be um

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changed and used for

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the E L A classroom or really

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uh a whole lot of different areas

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that can use these primary and secondary

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sources that are in here.

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The next is historical thinking skills

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for advanced placement. Again, trying

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to stick to national standards. I wanted

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to look at the standards that are

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in um the A P classroom

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and specifically the histories of the A P classroom,

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although you're gonna see similar ones and things

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like A P government politics.

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Um But in my classroom

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for when I was teaching for 15 years, I taught

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A P US history. And so

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the origin of these lesson plans

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came from things that I would have used in my

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A P US history classroom. And

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since then I also um became

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certified through college board

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as a consultant for A P US history

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and teaching other teachers how to teach that

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course. And so these are things that

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I very much know can

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help with. not only the content

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that's being taught in the US history

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and World history classroom, but

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specifically the skill building of what

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we're looking to teach in those classrooms.

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So I want to focus on a couple of the skills

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that are required in the A P classroom.

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First is the sourcing and

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situation skill.

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And that looks at analyzing the sourcing

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and situation of primary and secondary sources

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to identify a source's point of

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view, purpose, historical situation

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and or audience. And so it's

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really understanding what's happening

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in the background of these on top

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of what's happening in the primary source,

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explain the point of view, purpose,

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historical situation and or audience

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of a source and explain the point of view, purpose,

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historical situation and

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or audience of a source

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um with that. And so what

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you're looking at is you're looking at,

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do I know why this is written?

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Do I know the audience this is written

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to um do I understand what's

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happened in the author's background

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to make them write this article.

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Do I understand what's happened

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in history to make them write

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this speech or this article? And so

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not only are we wanting students

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to be able to read and analyze the

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sources, we're wanting students to

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be able to read and analyze the sources

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within the history that

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they were written.

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And so that's what we're looking at.

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The. Next is the claim and evidence of

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the sources and this is actually analyzing

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the arguments, right? Can we understand

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what's happening in that primary source?

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And so can we understand what's

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happening in the argument? Can we

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identify the evidence that they're using

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to support their argument? Can we

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compare the argument um of

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two sources? And this one specifically

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is done

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in

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um the world history one where we compare

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two of the secret treaties prior to World

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War one.

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And so you're gonna see that

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analysis of two different sources between

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two different four different countries um

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of what they look like. And then,

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you know, explain how evidence

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is used to support that.

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The fourth one that these really support

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is analyzing the context

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of contextualization.

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And this one, I think is perfect

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for the in context suite

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because again, you are not only getting

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these primary sources, but

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you're getting all of the reference

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material that helps you put these primary

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sources in their proper context

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and explain how

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to

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um how that developed, right,

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explain the history behind

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it. And so what

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we see is again, not only are we wanting

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to teach students the

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history

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and what happened, but we're

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wanting to teach them the skill of

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analyzing these primary and secondary

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sources and also

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analyzing them within their proper context.

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Because really in the the classroom,

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we're looking at

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um not just sort of teaching

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them information, but we're

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looking at how we are

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teaching them to build the skills

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that they're gonna need to analyze

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that content and analyze that information.

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And so I developed these lesson plans

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to try to do that, but also to give

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examples of how to create more

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of these, using the great resources

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that are in this, in context suite.

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And so what I wanna do now is

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I wanna look at the ones that I've already

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created

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and what's in them, how to find

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them all of that nice information.

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And then after we look at that, I want

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to look at how we can

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make more. All right, how

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especially those of you that are

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here from the support staff

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and not necessarily classroom teachers

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of how important your

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role is in

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developing these skills in

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the classroom as well and, and being

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a part of the team that goes into

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this. So before I, I get too

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far, let's look at the ones that I've already

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made. So what is in each

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of the lessons that's already made one,

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it starts out with some teacher instructions, it

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goes through the basic grade level.

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Um and the content and the subject

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gives you a small summary of the lesson,

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but it also tells you

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um the resources that can

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be used in this lesson and, and what in context

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this goes with, they all go with the in context

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suite, but they're gonna use different

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um in context databases.

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And then it also gives you a suggested

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time frame. Again, you can use these

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um some of them have extension

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activities which would create a little bit more

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time or you can cut those to save a little bit

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of time and then the procedures, right?

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What exactly happens in this

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lesson plan? Next is a student

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handout and this, you can either

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make copies and distribute that

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way or you could digitally distribute these

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to the students um through

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the PDF

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and this just walks them through the questions

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and how to access the material of what

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they're looking for. And then finally,

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hopefully to make lives easier

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of your teachers is an answer key that goes

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with it. And so there are a few parts

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of this that the answers are gonna vary based

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on what the students see of them, but some of them

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are very specific content based

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questions. And so you're gonna

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have an answer key for those questions.

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So um one of the questions that just

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came in is what grade levels are these available

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for? They are mostly available for high school, although

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some of them are gonna work for in context, middle

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school as well. And so they are

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a, a middle school to high school range.

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And then when you're creating them, you can

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create them for any level. Um including

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I think upper elementary can really start

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being exposed to these as well.

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So next is where to find

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them. Um You can find these on

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our support page and there's actually in a couple of different

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places. And so I'm gonna show you

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a couple of different places when we jump into your live.

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But if you're looking for the easiest this

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is on our support ca support page

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um under our training center

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and you're gonna look under these content specific

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specific materials

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and then they're right here right now

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under the featured content, these gale

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and context primary source lesson plans

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and then you're gonna see the ones that

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are already premade for you.

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The other thing that I want to

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point out is that we are going

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to use um the gale

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document number to help you access

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these. And so you

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can either do this as a support

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staff and find these documents and then link

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them out for the students or the students

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can use this. Um You may just

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want to show them how to, to access

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this material through this. So you would go to the

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advanced search and you're in contact

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text database and

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search for the gale document

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number that is included on the student

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handouts

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and from there, um

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it's gonna give you the resource

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that we're using. And then again, best practices

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may be for the support staff to go ahead

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and find those documents and then use something

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like the get link tool to then

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send that specific link out to

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the students to be able to do that.

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So

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let's go ahead and take a look of

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where to find these on the support page.

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So the support page is support

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dot gale dot com.

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Again, support dot gale dot

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com is our support page and there's

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gonna be a whole lot of materials in here. If

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you haven't ever visited our support

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page, please do because we are constantly

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creating materials to be

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able to use. Um But

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the first pathway that I showed

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you to be able to get here is under this training

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center

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and this content specific materials

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and then you have this gale in context

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primary source lesson plans.

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And if you click on those,

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here are the six that I've already

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created for use in the classroom

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and you are free to send these out and use these

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however that you would like.

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And so the first one that I made

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and and one of my favorites that we can look at

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is this lesson planned from Frederick

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Douglas of looking

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at the primary source of what to the slave

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is the 4th of July.

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And so again, they start out with

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the teacher's procedures and teacher's

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hand out.

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And then you have the student hand out

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after that

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to e e again, either distribute

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uh digitally or distribute

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um by copies.

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And then at the bottom

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uh is the answer key that goes along with

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it. So again, just make sure you don't distribute

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the answer key when you are distributing

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the digital version of the student handout.

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And so you'll see that there is a search path

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here or there is an

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advanced search of the gil document

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number. And that is the easiest

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way to me to be able to make sure that you're dealing with

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the right documents

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um in the sense that uh

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we are uh making

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sure we're all on the same page and how

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to find those

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um is I'm gonna go ahead and

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search with us history. You'll see that this one works

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with us history and context

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high school in context

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and um

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middle school. Oh, I do want to show you the other couple

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pathways before I jump in on how to do that because

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this is in here several times. But I also want

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you to be able to look around at all the other great

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materials that we have

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in here.

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So again, I found that

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um through the training center, content specific

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materials. But again, if I just go to support

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dot gale dot com and go to the training center,

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I could also find it here by browse by

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type

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and this is a lesson plan. So

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if I click on lesson plans,

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they are here for me and lesson plans.

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These are six new ones. So they're up

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here at the top, but it also gives you the ability

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to scroll down of some of the other lesson plans

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that are already created for you here.

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Or if I went to the training center, I could browse

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by product and I like the browse by product

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because if you are not a subscriber

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to all the different types of products,

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then you can see

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um which ones are there for your product.

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So again, I am

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going to look at Gale and context us

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history

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and I can if I scroll down. So here's

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the webinar that you're in right now

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and then I could look at some printable tools

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or I could look at all these lessons and activities

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that have been created for

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Galan context us history, including

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these ones with a little new tag. These

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are the ones that we're talking about today. These

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um these lesson plans here.

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So again,

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was gonna click on this one and I'm actually

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gonna go into Galan context

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high school to show us

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because that's what we're gonna be in today.

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But again, this works for us history, high

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school and middle school for this particular

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one. So as long as you

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are a subscriber to any of those three, this

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particular lesson plan will work

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And so if I go into my

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Gael and Context high school,

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and I'm looking for this particular

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primary document to link out to my

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students

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and I am going to search by document

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number and this is the one that I got

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from that handout.

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And then if I go to this field and I change

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to gale document number

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and I hit my search.

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The nice thing about this is I know

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that it's the document that is being

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addressed in there because only one

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is gonna come up and I'm looking for

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that particular gale document and it's

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the same number in all the different

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databases that it's in. And so we

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have this primary source of

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this beautiful Frederick Douglass speech

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that he delivers in 1852.

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And so this is one of the resources

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that a lot of those questions are on based

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on that. And so again, best practices

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I think is to go ahead and link

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that out to the students using this get

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link function right here.

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And that creates a persistent URL

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to this document to be able

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to send it out.

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Um or you, if you use Google classroom,

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you could automatically share it to your Google

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classroom that way. Um or

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send it to my Google drive my one

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drive or my email. But again,

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the most versatile I think here is this

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get link tool, send it directly to the students

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so that they know exactly where they are accessing

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this and this gives you

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access to this particular

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primary source that's in here and

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to be able to very easily

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do this activity with the students.

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OK. Are there any questions

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before I move on to some of the advice

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to creating your own

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projects for the students using

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these primary sources?

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I've seen a couple come through that have gotten

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answered. So I appreciate that if you guys

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answering them as I go.

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And again, there are six of these that are premade.

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Um But obviously, I have not made everything

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that's possible in here. You're gonna see a whole lot of primary

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documents. And so I do think it's really important

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to look at all the great things that can

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be made using these databases.

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OK? I don't see any more questions coming through,

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but again, please feel free to reach out

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as we as we do this.

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OK. So where are primary

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sources within Galin context? These are all

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the different databases that are

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going to have these primary documents.

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And so you're gonna see these are in biography

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gain context, Canada Galan context, college

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gain context, global issues, high school,

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middle school, opposing viewpoints, us history

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and world history. And so

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these types of lessons can be created

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using any of these different in context

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databases.

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And in order to create these, I

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think you should utilize um

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really both but two different search

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paths. One is utilizing the advanced

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search and looking for

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primary sources. And so combine

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your search terms and limiters to find the perfect

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document for your product project.

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Um And then also consider using advanced

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search to find other unique sources to analyze

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of images or infographics or creative

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works. But again, we are specifically

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looking at primary sources today. And

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so there is a content type

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of primary sources within here

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and so feel free to use that advanced

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search if you know a particular document

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that you are wanting your students to analyze,

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or you could utilize the content

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buckets that are here within

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our searches and our topic pages.

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And so um you could then

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dig even further and filter

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those tools to discover the resources you're

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looking for and then don't forget to filter by

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content level too, especially if

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you are looking for something that maybe

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is middle school or upper elementary

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appropriate um for

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this. But again, primary sources are in middle school, they

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are not in Gale In Context: Elementary.

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Um at least yet. So make sure

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that you are looking for some of those

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in the middle school database.

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But again, we can filter our results within

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those content buckets to look for

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the specific examples of what we're looking

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at. And

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don't forget that you have those great

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tools within Gale In Context

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that you can use to further your lessons.

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If you notice on the Frederick

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Douglas lesson plan that I had just

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pointed out, if you were following along there

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is an extension there that uses the highlights

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and notes tools. So you have the ability to

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share that content using get link,

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download or send to. You

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also have the ability to use are amazing

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accessibility tools within

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our database and make sure that you are

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translating, using different font sizes,

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display options or especially

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some of these um are very

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difficult for our our emerging

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learners. And so the listen tool becomes

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really important when we're dealing with primary sources.

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And then again, encouraging analysis. The extension

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of the

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um the Frederick Douglas has

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uh highlights a notes tool being used

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to highlight three different portion

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of

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the um of the speech

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that they find particularly important

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and using the notes tool to be able

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to summarize what exactly

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Frederick Douglass meant by that and, and

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turn it in.

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And then also, you know, to develop

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those research skills. Again, one of the important

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takeaways, I hope that you get from these lessons

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is not only are we building

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content knowledge, but we're building

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skills that go along with analyzing

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these primary sources and

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using historical contextualization

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and point of view, but also how

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easy this would be to do some further research.

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So let's go ahead and take a look at how

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to find these primary sources within

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our in context databases. And

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we're gonna stay within high school

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of just looking for some examples.

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So I'm gonna go back to the high school home page

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again, I'm in Gale in Context high School, but this

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is gonna work similarly in all

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those different databases that I already

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mentioned. So we'll start with our advanced

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search. And again, we

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have the different content types down here and I know

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I'm looking for primary sources. So I'm gonna go

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ahead and click that primary source content

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type. And one of the ones that

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I haven't made yet that I always

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used in my classroom because that's one of my favorite

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primary documents um

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is Washington's farewell address. And

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so if I were going to search

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for Washington's farewell address, I might

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look for Washington

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and farewell

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and do a general search there

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knowing that I'm looking for that primary

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document and seeing if that primary document

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is here for my project that I'm wanting

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to do,

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give it just a second, it's searching through all

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the great materials that we have.

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And so we see that it's bringing

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up this text of Washington's farewell

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address.

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And so it is in here, right? We have

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the primary document in here to use

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and so I can find some primary

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documents that way that I might want to.

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But again, this is using the advanced search

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because I had something specific in mind. Now,

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you could always just search through the

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primary documents and look at all the

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different types of sourcing that

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you have here. But in teaching

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in my classroom, I know some of the,

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the documents that I want to be able to use

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or at least I know maybe the person

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that I'm looking for a primary document

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in. And so I have this great text

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that I could use to send to my kids.

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Again, I could send it out. Um

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And my kids have this and again,

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we have the accessibility tools, they can increase

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or decrease the font size, they could

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change the display options. Um

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But especially for our primary

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sources, I love the listen tool because

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one of the,

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you know, great hardships

[00:23:54.058]
of teaching us history and primary documents

[00:23:56.597]
is this is something that I would cover early

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on in the year and it's kind

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of difficult, right? If you look at my reading level

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of this, which I can't change because it's a primary document,

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it's it's at an undergraduate level.

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And so I really love the listen

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tool here so that students can listen

[00:24:13.640]
to this primary document and understand

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it and kind of chunk it a little bit that way

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because

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um it, it's sort of, you know, one

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of the the hardest things about primary sourcing

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in us history is sometimes you have to start

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out with some of the harder documents and

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the plain speaking documents come a little

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later in us history and not in the early

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days. So I really love the accessibility

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tools for that one, but especially the listen tool

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now that was using advanced search,

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another way was we could just use our topic

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pages or our general searches and our content

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buckets there.

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And so if I were to search George Washington

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here, and

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I notice not only with my

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searches, do we have a topic page for George

[00:24:57.670]
Washington? We actually have a topic

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page just for George Washington's farewell

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address.

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And so if I'm gonna click on there, I can

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see in my, in my bucketed content

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that I do have a primary source here,

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right? Which is gonna be the same primary

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source I just brought up in here. But

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if I'm having the students again, if

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you notice in most of these lesson plans,

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not only am I giving the students the actual

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primary document, but I'm giving

[00:25:23.567]
them some reference material to go with it

[00:25:25.660]
because the the skill here

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is not only to read and analyze the primary

[00:25:29.837]
document, but to be able to put

[00:25:31.910]
that primary document within

[00:25:34.048]
its historical contextualization, right?

[00:25:36.219]
To be able to understand what's happening

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in the background to create this primary

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document. And one of the reasons

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that I loved teaching George Washington's

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farewell address is because it's just chock

[00:25:48.308]
full of all of these

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um comments of what's going on

[00:25:52.880]
within the United States at the time, right? He

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goes through all the different issues

[00:25:57.000]
that he's seeing within his administration.

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Well, the students don't understand

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what's happening in George Washington's administration.

[00:26:04.347]
They're gonna have a really hard time analyzing

[00:26:06.890]
this primary document.

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And so in this sense,

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this is a really great example of

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something that we can give the students the primary

[00:26:15.449]
document. But we could also

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use this get link to send students

[00:26:19.769]
right here to this topic page

[00:26:22.097]
of George Washington's farewell

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address. You don't even have to pick a specific

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reference material that goes with them.

[00:26:28.880]
You can use that get link and send them just

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here to this topic page and therefore

[00:26:33.664]
they can go through and they can find their own

[00:26:35.704]
answers to what is he referencing,

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right? What is happening in the background?

[00:26:40.056]
Or if I wanted to specifically

[00:26:42.375]
give them one of these references,

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I have one of these references like this, which

[00:26:46.605]
is specifically going over the farewell

[00:26:48.644]
address and it goes over some

[00:26:50.733]
of the themes and context

[00:26:53.125]
of what happening within George

[00:26:55.371]
Washington's farewell address. And so not

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only do I have access to these beautiful

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primary sources, but I have all the

[00:27:02.082]
reference materials that go with them.

[00:27:04.442]
And so here I'm seeing the major

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themes, I'm seeing the theme of international

[00:27:09.401]
relations and everything that's happening. I'm seeing

[00:27:12.121]
the development of political parties and

[00:27:14.141]
why that's a theme within

[00:27:16.670]
Um this particular

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document. It gives me some quotes from

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it. It gives me this theme of nationalism and

[00:27:22.969]
feed uh federalism.

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And so it would be really, really

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easy for me to give them both of these documents

[00:27:29.827]
and maybe say, OK, highlight

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in one color um where

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you're seeing the theme of this international

[00:27:37.117]
relations and highlight in another color

[00:27:39.189]
where we're seeing the theme of political

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parties and where George Washington is

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bringing that up in his farewell address.

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And so there's so many different ideas

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and examples of how we

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can use this within the classroom

[00:27:52.255]
and using this to build that content

[00:27:54.462]
knowledge and that skill, knowledge

[00:27:56.854]
of what's happening um

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within our primary sources and

[00:28:01.035]
primary source information that are within these.

[00:28:04.660]
Um And so again, some of this is also

[00:28:06.959]
finding the secondary information

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because if you notice in all

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of those um national

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standards, it's not only analyzing primary

[00:28:16.380]
sources, but it's analyzing the secondary

[00:28:18.577]
sources of what they're seeing.

[00:28:20.308]
And so in the gale con in

[00:28:22.390]
context databases, they're getting both right,

[00:28:24.449]
they're getting access to those great primary documents,

[00:28:26.817]
but they're getting access to those secondary

[00:28:29.087]
documents that's analyzing all

[00:28:31.660]
of that history that's going on behind it.

[00:28:39.259]
So again, either search path will

[00:28:41.317]
work, we found the same primary document

[00:28:43.837]
through both different search paths

[00:28:46.308]
um and the supporting information

[00:28:48.680]
to go with them. And so again, if

[00:28:50.699]
that's sort of my idea is I want

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them um to be able

[00:28:55.420]
to, to highlight that farewell

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address,

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let me go back to it.

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And so all they would have to do is go back

[00:29:04.048]
to that primary document.

[00:29:07.489]
And now knowing those themes,

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they could go through here and they could highlight

[00:29:12.107]
it, they could make a note

[00:29:14.058]
um, they could highlight it in different colors.

[00:29:16.327]
They could make a note that this is on political parties.

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I'm not sure if it is. I, I didn't read

[00:29:22.538]
it. I'm not giving you the answers here. Um,

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I've read it but I don't know exactly where they are

[00:29:26.769]
or, but I could, you know, make

[00:29:28.798]
a note there and they could send

[00:29:30.930]
it, they could email it to their teacher,

[00:29:33.087]
they could send it straight to their Google

[00:29:35.259]
Driver one drive and turn it in that way. And

[00:29:37.380]
that could be part of that analysis assignment

[00:29:40.479]
that goes into that.

[00:29:45.798]
So there's a whole lot of different classroom

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uh materials that can be found through

[00:29:51.097]
these primary documents and, and

[00:29:53.259]
being able to do that. And so

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I, I highly encourage you to

[00:29:57.719]
look through here, look through the ones

[00:29:59.867]
that have been premade. Um look

[00:30:02.087]
through the ones that um

[00:30:04.577]
you know, are teaching in the classroom

[00:30:06.837]
and being taught in the classroom of how

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great that is. And I, I

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will tell you from experience that

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