Lesson Plan Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Researching the Past Using Primary Sources lesson plan.
Academic Students will be able to analyze primary sources and answer questions about those sources.
Language Students will be able to analyze a primary source with past tense verbs using sentence frames.
Introduction (4 minutes)
Tell students that people who study history often use primary sources to help them learn about the past.
Show students the vocabulary card for primary sources and read the definition aloud.
Explain to students that today they will be focusing on one type of primary source called a census.
Show students the vocabulary card for census and read the definition aloud.
Tell students that today they will be looking closely at different censuses and analyzing the information they provide.