1. Come to the Mountain! KMWP Continuity Events Webinar Series Writing From Memory Writing Activities with American Memory and Other Digital Archives June 3, 2010 – 4:30 p.m.

2. Objectives Showcase strategies with digital archives Explore Archives: –Library of Congress collections –National Archives experience with Digital Vaults Highlight teacher resources & lesson ideas Discuss, comment, question, write To see speaker’s explanation of slides, download the PowerPoint to view the notes

5. QuickWrite Countdown: 5-4-3-2-1 Write 5 observations (what you see) Write 4 inferences (interpretations of what you see justified with evidence) Write 3 questions Write 2 hypotheses (example: What were people feeling and thinking?) Write 1 caption

6. Write 5 observations (what you see) Write 4 inferences (interpretations of what you see justified with evidence) Write 3 questions Write 2 hypotheses (example: What were people feeling and thinking?) Write 1 caption

11. Links to Online Resources The Library of Congress – American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem http://memory.loc.gov/ammem The National Archives Experience – http://www.digitalvaults.org/ http://www.digitalvaults.org/ Georgia’s Virtual Vault - http://content.sos.state.ga.us/ http://content.sos.state.ga.us/ New York Public Library Digital Gallery - http://digitalgallery.nypl.org http://digitalgallery.nypl.org Making Connections Through Poetry - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/history/index.html http://www.loc.gov/teachers/history/index.html