1. Primary Sources What are they?
Sources from someone’s direct or personal experience….
it might be a…

2. Primary Sources Why was this picture taken?
a photograph…
How does this picture make you feel?
What is she thinking?
What does this make you think about?

3. Primary Sources What does this make you think of?
Have you had a similar experience?
How was it different?
a video clip…

4. Primary Sources I see you peeking!!!!!! Please close your eyes…
an audio recording…
Please close your eyes…
and listen…
I see you peeking!!!!!!

5. Interview with Aunt Harriet Smith Former Slave
Hempstead, Texas, 1941
What did you notice about this conversation?
What question would you ask?

6. If you could go back in history…
Primary Sources
…where would you go?
Don’t just think about it…
A Link to our Past
find a primary source and
Share the Experience

7. find a primary source
Share the Experience

9. Destitute pea pickers in California.
Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California
February, 1936
Why was this picture taken?
How does this picture make you feel?
What is she tinking?
What does this make you think about?

10. Shooting the chutes What does this make you think of?
Luna Park, Coney Island
Filmed July 3, 1903
What does this make you think of?
Have you had a similar experience?
How was it different?

11. Interview with Aunt Harriet Smith Former Slave
Hempstead, Texas, 1941
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Playing time 8:47
What did you notice about this conversation?
What question would you ask?

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