The
West Virginia Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in West Virginia. 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 West Virginia 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
West Virginia Primary Sources are:
1. Advertisement for an escaped slave from Hampshire County, West Virginia – 1845
2. Map of the routes of the Underground Railroad through West Virginia – 1855
3. Illustration of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia – published November 1859
4. Photograph of John S. Carlile, leader during the First Wheeling Convention – 1861
5. Illustration of the daring ride of Colonel Lander at the Battle of Philippi – 1861
6. Illustration of Francis H. Pierpont, known as the "Father of West Virginia" - 1861
7. Map of the proposed State of Kanawha – 1862
8. Photograph of the Wheeling Post Office – also known as the West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention – 1862
9. Replica of a bill on the admission of West Virginia to the Union – 1862
10. County map of Virginia and West Virginia – 1863
11. Illustration of Morgantown, West Virginia – drawn by T. M. Fowler – 1897
12. Replica of a postcard of the Market House and Town Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia – built in 1822 – weekly slave auctions were held here – 1900
13. Photograph of the entrance to a coal mine – September 1908
14. Young driver working in Brown Mine in Brown, West Virginia – 1908
15. Photograph of a worker weaving at the Tygart Valley Homesteads – August 1936
16. Photograph of children of miners in Scott’s Run, West Virginia – March 1937
17. Photograph of the interior of the Jero WPA nursery – these children are from unemployed miners’ homes – March 19, 1937
18. Miners playing cards during coal strike – Kempton, West Virginia – 1939
19. Photograph of a Saturday afternoon street scene in Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia – August 1946
20. Photograph of houses, coal cars, and church in Gary, West Virginia – 1946
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.