The
California Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in California. 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
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The California 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
California Primary Sources Documents are:
1. Engraving of Spanish colonial Presidio of San Francisco and the Golden Gate – 1822
2. Illustration of Sutter’s Fort – near Sacramento City, California – 1845
3. Map of Mexico including the Yucatan and Alta California – 1847
4. Advertisement for "Sailing to California for the California Gold Rush" - 1850
5. Photograph of Sutter’s Mill – location of the first discovery of gold in California triggering the California Gold Rush – 1850
6. Photograph of merchant ships crowding San Francisco’s harbor during the Gold Rush – 1851
7. Painting of the Battle of Veracruz during the Mexican-American War – 1851
8. Photograph of Portsmouth Square – San Francisco – 1851
9. Campaign banner for John C. Fremont, Republican presidential contender in 1856 – intended to evoke heroic memories of Fremont’s expeditions to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and 1843
10. Lithograph of a birds-eye view of the city of Sacramento – 1857
11. Poster for the Pony Express advertising fast mail delivery from Missouri to California – 1860
12. Photograph of the ceremony commemorating driving in the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah – completion of the Transcontinental Railroad – May 1869
13. Political cartoon showing a Chinese man being excluded from entry to the "Golden Gate of Liberty" - 1882
14. Photograph of immigrants arriving at the U.S. Immigration Station on Angel Island – circa 1930
15. Photograph of Oklahoma farm family fleeing Dust Bowl – caravans of "Okies"; headed for California on Route 66 – 1935
16. Photograph of destitute mother of seven children – family worked picking peas in California – 1936
17. Photograph of newspaper headlines from the San Francisco Examiner announcing Japanese relocation after the attack on Pearl Harbor – February 27, 1942
18. Photograph of Ansel Adams – American photographer famous for his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West – 1950
19. Photograph of Walt Disney showing Disneyland plans to officials in Orange County, California – 1954
20. Photograph of Marion "John"; Wayne meeting with President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger – San Clemente, California – July 1972
Your 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.