The
Maryland Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Maryland. 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
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The Maryland 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
Maryland Primary Sources are:
1. Illustration of the State House, Annapolis, Maryland – circa 1800
2. Copy of broadside printing of the "Defense of Fort McHenry," a poem by Francis Scott Key that later became the national anthem of the United States – 1814
3. Painting of Samuel Chase – Maryland signer of the Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court – 1836
4. Advertisement for reward for runaway slave – Rockville, Maryland – 1845
5. Photograph of Harriet Tubman – escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1849 and led hundreds of other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad – circa 1850
6. Etching of Cape Palmas in Liberia – founded by Maryland State Colonization Society as a colony for ex-slaves – circa 1853
7. Photograph of abolitionist Frederick Douglass – escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 – photo taken 1856
8. Photograph of members of the 3rd Maryland Infantry – circa 1860
9. Sketch of the interior of a Civil War-era Sibley tent – sketched at Camp John A. Andrew near Annapolis – 1861
10. Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln with Major Allan Pinkerton (head of Union Intelligence Service) and General John McClernand at Antietam, Maryland – October 1862
11. Advertisement for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad – noting its reorganization and repair from Civil War damage – 1864
12. Photograph of ferry traveling on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal – circa early 1900s
13. Photograph of Slebzak family, including young children, working on farm near Baltimore – 1909
14. Photograph of U.S. Food Administration sign in Baltimore urging food conservation during WWI – circa 1917
15. Photograph of Casselman River Bridge – built to carry the National Road across the Casselman River near Grantsville – at the time, was the longest stone arch bridge in the U.S. – 1933
16. Replica of three-cent stamp produced to celebrate Maryland's 300th anniversary featuring the Ark and the Dove – 1934
17. Woman working to harvest tobacco on her family's Maryland farm – 1943
18. Photograph of President John F. Kennedy and his children at Camp David, Maryland – 1963
19. Photograph of Thurgood Marshall – Maryland native and Supreme Court Justice best known for his work in ending segregation in public schools – 1967
20. Aerial photograph of the Port of Baltimore - 2008
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.