The
Louisiana Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Louisiana. 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 Louisiana 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
Louisiana Primary Sources are:
1. Illustration of French "comfort women" transported to Louisiana as brides for the colonists – 1721
2. Illustration of an Atakapa Indian in his winter clothing – 1735
3. Painting of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 – painted by a member of the Louisiana militia who took part in the battle – 1815
4. Painting of steamboats on the Mississippi River docked in New Orleans – 1853
5. Lithograph of a political cartoon entitled "Secession Exploded" - 1861
6. Illustration of the Battle of Baton Rouge in Harper’s Weekly – September 2, 1862
7. Photograph of scars on a whipped slave – Baton Rouge, Louisiana – April 2, 1863
8. Replica of the ordinance to abolish slavery – Louisiana Constitutional Convention – May 11, 1864
9. Photograph of United States Colored Troops at Port Hudson, Louisiana – 1864
10. Illustration depicting a Freedmen’s Bureau agent between armed groups of Southern whites and freed slaves – 1868
11. Photograph of Mardi Gras parade on Canal Street in New Orleans – 1890
12. Map of Louisiana Purchase – published 1903
13. Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville – French governor of Louisiana and founder of New Orleans – 1905
14. Photograph of Huey Long, Louisiana governor and U.S. senator – 1935
15. Photograph of barrels of perique tobacco during process of aging – Saint James Parish – only place in the world where this tobacco is raised – September 1938
16. Photograph of people waiting in line at a rationing board during World War II – 500 block of Gravier Street, New Orleans – March 1943
17. Photograph of Louis Armstrong – famous New Orleans jazz trumpeter – 1953
18. Photograph of shrimp boats near Grand Isle, Louisiana – 2000
19.Photograph of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – August 28, 2005
20. Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, first African American child to attend a white elementary school in the South, meets with President Obama to view painting of her displayed in White House – 2011
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.