The
Massachusetts Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts 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
Massachusetts Primary Sources are:
1. Bronze statue of John Winthrop in Boston – first governor of Massachusetts
2. Illustration of seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony – created mid 1600s
3. Illustration of British ships and soldiers arriving in Boston Harbor – 1768
4. Oil portrait of Massachusetts patriot Paul Revere – 1768
5. Engraving depicting the Boston Massacre – 1770
6. Oil portrait of Samuel Adams – 1772
7. Lithograph of the Boston Tea Party – 1773
8. Illustration of the Battle of Lexington – 1775
9. Engraving showing the drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence – Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman – 1776
10. Replica of the Declaration of Independence – July 4, 1776
11. Oil painting entitled The Death of Major Peirson – Battle of New Jersey – painted by John Singleton Copley of Massachusetts, one of the finest painters of colonial America – 1781
12 Official presidential portrait of John Adams – 1792
13. Photograph of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross – ca. 1860
14. Photograph of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, posing with a camera, another of his interests – 1872
15. Photograph of Susan B. Anthony campaigning for women's right to vote – ca. 1890
16. Photograph of Alexander Graham Bell at the opening of the long-distance line from New York to Chicago – 1892
17. Photograph of Dr. Robert Goddard holding the launching frame of his most notable invention – the first liquid-fueled rocket – March 16, 1926
18. Photograph of women operating machinery as part of National Youth Administration New Deal program – Springfield, Massachusetts – November 26, 1940
19. Photograph of Theodore Geisel – also known as Dr. Seuss – drawing the Grinch for How the Grinch Stole Christmas – 1957
20. President John F. Kennedy with his children, nieces, and nephews at Kennedy home in Hyannis Port – August 1963
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.