Thomas Jefferson's America

Thomas Jefferson's America

research session

Learning Goals

• Practice searching in several collections of primary sources
• Identify a potential primary source for your research project
• Evaluate the source by considering its intended audience, its creator, and what it tells you about the time it was created
• Identify additional questions you still have about the source and consider where you might look for answers in secondary sources.

history PRESENTAtion

Research day plan

• Find primary sources from resources on your online research guide
• Post answers to questions on the padlet
• Split into groups of three
• In groups, examine and draw conclusions about each others’ sources

Group Discussion

1. Introduce your source to your group mates.Who created it? When was it created?

2. As a group, discusswhat you can learn from the source about the time of its creation.

3. As a group, discussWhose perspective is missing when considering this source.

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