LESSON PLANS
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Engage your students with history! Develop their powers of analysis and inquiry by guiding them to examine and study a historical source. Use these analysis sheets with any historical source to guide their exploration.
ATTACK the Source (Elementary)
You are CLEVER enough to examine a historical source (Middle)
Historical Source Analysis Sheet (Middle)
Historical Source Analysis Sheet (High)
Death or Liberty: Gabriels Rebellion
Themes: African Americans
What would you do to secure your freedom? Is there any price too steep?
SOL: CE.1, USI.8, VUS.1, VUS.6
Virginia Indians in the Twentieth Century
Themes: Virginia Indians
How does the annual payment of tribute to the governor by some of Virginia's Indians attest to their continuing presence?
SOL: USI.3, USI.4, VS.2, VUS.2
The Womens Land Army and World War II Posters
Themes: Military History, Technology and Science, Women
What are some ways that women contributed to the war effort during WWII?
SOL: CE.1, USII.1, USII.7, VUS.1, VUS.12
Arthur Ashe Photograph
Themes: African Americans, Popular Culture
Who was Arthur Ashe?
SOL: USII.9, VS.9
Virginia Ordinance of Secession
Themes: Military History, Politics
What did the Virginia Ordinance of Secession declare?
SOL: USI.1, USI.9, VS.1, VS.7, VUS.1, VUS.7
World War II Home Front: Can all you Can
Themes: Military History, Politics, Popular Culture, Technology and Science, Women
How did canning food at home aid the war effort during WWII?
SOL: CE.1, CE.3, USII.1, USII.8, VS.1, VUS.1, VUS.12
Thomas Meade Estate Inventory
Themes: Legal, Popular Culture
What can an estate inventory tell you about an individual?
SOL: USI.1, USI.5, VS.1, VS.4, VUS.1, VUS.3
Nat Turner Rebellion
Themes: African Americans, Tragedy and Disaster
What effect did Nat Turner's Rebellion have on how enslaved and free African Americans were treated in Virginia?
SOL: VS.6, VS.7
Petition from Judith Hope
Themes: African Americans, Legal
On what grounds did Judith Hope ask for her freedom?
SOL: CE.7, USI.1, USI.8, USI.9, VS.7, VUS.1, VUS.6
Henry Box Brown Escapes Slavery
Themes: African Americans, Transportation
How did Henry Box Brown escape from slavery?
SOL: USI.9, VS.7, VUS.6, VUS.7