The
Illinois Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Illinois. 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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FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.
The Illinois 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 20
Illinois Primary Sources are:
1. Oil painting depicting Father Jacques Marquette meeting with Native Americans in northern Mississippi River region – circa 1673
2. Painting depicting the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe during the Black Hawk War
3. Engraving of Nauvoo, Illinois – founding land of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – 1855
4. Photograph of Isaac Yost – Union soldier of Company C, 118th Regiment Illinois Infantry – 1862
5. Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln on the Antietam battlefield – October 1862
6. Lithograph of the colour-bearers of the 71st Illinois – 1862
7. Photograph of the Illinois Steel Works – 1880
8. Print showing police charging rioters in Haymarket Square in Chicago – May 4, 1886
9. Illustration of the Great Chicago Fire – shows citizens rushing over the Randolph Street Bridge – 1871
10. Political cartoon entitled "Poor Illinois!" - Illinois governor John R. Tanner portrayed as an executioner holding a gallows, with a noose, labeled "For Capitalists" - November 9, 1898
11. Advertisement for the Illinois Central Railroad – 1870
12. Photograph of the steamer Illinois – 1915
13. Photograph of President Ronald Reagan (11 years old) in Dixon, Illinois – 1922
14. Photograph of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Chicago World's Fair – 1933
15. Advertisement for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra – Works Progress Administration project – May 1937
16. Photograph of Michigan Avenue in Chicago – October 1940
17. Photograph of a billboard in Chicago urging citizens to buy coal to support the war effort – July 1941
18. Photograph of the Sears Towers in Chicago – 1980
19. Photograph of five female U.S. senators, including Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate – 1993
20. Photograph of Senator Barack Obama and family in front of Old State Capitol building in Springfield – just before announcing his candidacy for U.S. president – 2007
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.