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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)
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.7, VUS.6
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
Gilbert Hunt and the Richmond Theater Fire
Themes: African Americans, Tragedy and Disaster
Was Gilbert Hunt treated like a hero?
SOL: VS.1, VS.7
Manumission Petition for James Lafayette
Themes: African Americans, Legal, Military History
For what service during the American Revolution was James Lafayette awarded his freedom?
SOL: USI.1, USI.5, VS.1, VS.5
Land Survey by George Washington
Themes: Business and Entrepureneurs, Geography and Exploration
What was one of George Washington's first jobs?
SOL: USI.1, USI.6, VS.1, VS.6
Petition of the Meherrin Indians
Themes: Legal, Virginia Indians
What steps did the Meherrin Indians take to try to protect their land from encroaching colonists?
SOL: USI.1, USI.3, USI.4, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3, VUS.2, VUS.6
Petition of Phillip Gowen
Themes: African Americans, Legal
Were African Americans held as indentured servants in colonial Virginia?
SOL: USI.1, USI.5, VS.1, VS.3, VS.4, VUS.1, VUS.3
Nova Virginia Tabula
Themes: Geography and Exploration, Virginia Indians
How did early maps of Virginia portray the colony?
SOL: 1.4, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, K.4, K.5, VS.1, VS.2, VS.3
By the King: A Proclamation Concerning Tobacco
Themes: Business and Entrepureneurs, Geography and Exploration, Legal
How and why did King Charles seek to regulate the tobacco industry?
SOL: USI.1, VS.1, VS.4