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: The Gardener Author: Sarah Stewart Illustrator: David Small
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Title and Permanent URL
Your name: J. Mardelle Martin
In what strategy from
the workshop will
you use these
sources?
No work
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99400835/
From Arkansas
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99400811/
During the Great
Depression so many
families had to split
up to survive. No
income to provide for
their family. Picture
how people were
feeling during this
time period.
Picture of a setting
during the Great
Depression. Women
were often left alone
to keep their home.
How will the primary
source activity enrich
your teaching of the
book: how will you
enhance student
literacy?
Visual analysis with
the analysis tool.
What are we going to
learn from this picture
that applies to the
story?
Using several picture
do a Gallery Walk
Asking: What is
happening here?
Read the book and
the have them go
through the second
time Do they want to
change their
answers?
Train at station, with hotel in background, Fulton, New
York
cph 3c17085 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17085
Map of the rail-roads of the state of New York prepared under the direction of
the Rail Road Commissioners, John S. Clark, William J. McAlpine, James B. Swain.
g3801p rr002620 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3801p.rr002620
What it was like
traveling by train, by
yourself to a strange
place.
Travel then and now.
How many train
stations are still
functioning?
Graph train stations
1930 vs. today.
State, east coast, west
coast, mid-west,
plains.
Cutting up the map of
the rail-roads how
many stops, time on
train, length of the
journey.
How did the land
around the railroad
tracks change over
time.
Study forms of trains
in the 1930’s vs.
today. Passenger
trains running today.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Choose vivid and
sensory words to
write a poem from
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression
the letters between
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/poetry/procedure.html home and Lydia
Grace.
Found Poetry
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Title and Permanent URL
In what strategy from the
workshop will you use these
sources?
Fire escapes on brownstone, New York, New York
Life in a Box
highsm 04323 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.04323
Using clues to figure out the
item that was mentioned or
pictured in the book.
Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell,
May 16, 1893
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/magbell.03810108
Pretend they are either
Uncle Jim or Lydia Grace.
Have them write a letter
from them to the other
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/n/friendlyletterl.cfm telling them how they feel.
1.When they first saw each
other
2. When they said good bye
How will the primary source
activity enrich your teaching of
the book: how will you enhance
student literacy?
Discover what meaning is in the
pictures.
1. Lydia Grace’s Secret
Place
2. Meaning of the flower
seeds.
3. Who is a gardener?
Write friendly letters