PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTION TOOL Paste a copy of the primary source in the first box, its title and URL in the second, the workshop strategy you will design
for these primary sources, and in the final column, how that strategy and these sources will work together in your book backdrop.
The book you will use: Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
Thumbnail photo
Title and Permanent URL
Your name: Katelynn Cheramy
In what strategy from the
workshop will you use
these sources?
Ad poster
DDT is Good for Me
http://enviroethics.org/2011/06/18/animation-ddd-is-good-for-me/
How will the primary source
activity enrich your teaching of
the book: how will you enhance
student literacy?
Students will analyze past
advertisements to decide how
popular the products would be
today. Students will then create
an advertisement that either
supports the ad’s purpose or
rejects the ad’s purpose.
Dusting with an airplane
Questioning Techniques http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carson/aa_carson_spring_1_e.html
Rachel Carson and Her Book that Changed the World
A cool website to support this book:
http://www.rif.org/documents/us/Rachel_Carson.pdf
Teacher will present this primary
source to small groups. Each
group will generate questions
based-on this primary source
picture. Questions will lead to
discussions and teaching
opportunities.
Word Wall –
Teacher will pull out
words/vocabulary that could
lend itself to a primary source.
Students will either find the
primary sources or teacher will
pull primary sources for
students.
Thumbnail photo
Title and Permanent URL
In what strategy from the
workshop will you use
these sources?
How will the primary source
activity enrich your teaching of the
book: how will you enhance
student literacy?
Letter to Rachel Carson
Letter writing
Students will read the letter sent
to Carson to understand to
motivation to her cause of
monitoring/reducing DDT use.
Students will then write a letter to
someone of power bringing up a
change opportunity.
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/room-26-cabinetcuriosities/2012/09/24/and-what-if-%E2%80%98no-birds-sing%E2%80%99
Buffalo
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carson/aa_carson_spring_3_e.html
Dusting with an airplane
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carson/aa_carson_spring_1.html
Special Tractor Spraying for DDT
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carson/aa_carson_spring_2_e.html
Life in a Power Point (in
this order)
Teacher will present this primary
source power point. As the
pictures are flipping through,
students will keep track of their
thoughts on the primary source –
the image tells me, the answer
might be, questions I still have…
Letter to Rachel Carson
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/room-26-cabinetcuriosities/2012/09/24/and-what-if-%E2%80%98no-birds-sing%E2%80%99
Silent Spring book
JFK
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carson/aa_carson_consequenc_1_e.html
Another such victory and I am undone
http://www.loc.gov/item/acd1999000937/PP/
Carson with her book
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carson/aa_carson_spring_4_e.html