The
North Carolina Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in North Carolina. 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 North Carolina 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
North Carolina Primary Sources are:
1. Image of the Moravian seal, symbol of the Moravian Church – center image dates from the 1500s
2. Print of Indian chief on Roanoke Island – 1600
3. 1938 photograph of the Joel Lane House, oldest dwelling in Raleigh, North Carolina – built between 1760 and 1770
4. Poem entitled "The Slave in Dismal Swamp," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, telling the miserable plight of a slave in hiding – 1842
5. Oil painting entitled "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap" - 1851
6. Map of North Carolina – 1857
7. Illustration of baseball game between Union prisoners at Salisbury, North Carolina – 1863
8. Battlefield map of Battle of Bentonville – 1865
9. Photograph of the Harper House, field hospital commandeered by Union forces in 1865
10. Photograph of Zebulon Vance, Confederate military officer and North Carolina governor and U.S. senator – circa 1875
11. Photograph of Federal Building in Raleigh, first federal government project in the South after the Civil War – completed in 1878
12. Photograph of workers gathering crude turpentine from the pine forests of North Carolina – 1903
13. Photograph of Wright Brothers’ first powered, controlled, sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina – December 17, 1903
14. Photograph of young spinner in Vivian Cotton Mill, Cherryville, North Carolina – 1908
15. Statue of Washington Duke on the Duke University Campus – sculpture dedicated 1908
16. Photograph of African American women picking cotton in a field near New Bern, North Carolina – 1920
17. Photograph of drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina – 1938
18. Buyers examining tobacco for sale in Durham, North Carolina, warehouse – 1939
19. Photograph of Bruno Lucchesi’s statue of Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom North Carolina’s capital city is named – created 1976
20. Photograph of reconstructed Tryon Palace, North Carolina’s first colonial capital – photo taken late 1900s
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.