The
Tennessee Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Tennessee. 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 Tennessee 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
Tennessee Primary Sources are:
1. Illustration of Hernando de Soto – first European to visit Tennessee – 1570
2. Portrait of John Sevier – first governor of Tennessee – 1792
3. Illustration of President Andrew Jackson & William Weatherford, Creek Indian leader, after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend – 1814
4. First page of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee – adopted in 1835
5. Oil painting entitled "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap" - 1851
6. Lithograph of the Battle of Chattanooga – General Thomas’ charge near Orchard Knob – 1863
7. General Ulysses S. Grant and men on Lookout Mountain – 1863
8. Oil painting of Davy Crockett – 1889
9. Young boy working in cotton mill, Fayetteville, Tennessee – 1910
10. Photograph of women’s suffrage activist Anne Dallas Dudley with her children – 1912
11. Photograph of Admiral William Banks Caperton – 1914
12. Photograph of Sergeant Alvin C. York – 1918
13. Photograph of Samuel Gompers (left), President of the American Federation of Labor, participating in a demonstration in Washington, D.C. – 1919
14. This Congressional resolution giving women the right to vote became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it – August 1920
15. Photograph of John Scopes – defendant in the State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes court case – June 1925
16. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Tennessee Valley Authority Act – May 18, 1933
17. Photograph of Secretary of State Cordell Hull meeting with Japanese ambassadors two weeks before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor – November 17, 1941
18. Photograph of a girl pumping water from a well that is her town’s sole water supply – project of the Tennessee Valley Authority – 1942
19. Photograph of a shift change at the Y-12 uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, TN, during the Manhattan Project – 1945
20. Photograph of Ryman Auditorium in Nashville – known as the "Mother Church of Country Music" - 2005
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.