Field trip to the Delaware Public Archives in Dover, Delaware! 
(This is a new location for our November meeting)
 
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2003
Location: Delaware Public Archives (homepage: http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/ )
Time: The meeting will be held from 5-7 PM, but you are welcome to stay and browse until 8:00 PM.
 
You have probably been hearing about using primary source documents in your classroom. Primary sources are "actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, and articles of clothing." A partial list includes:
  • Published documents include books, magazines, newspapers, government documents, non-government reports, literature of all kinds, advertisements, maps, pamphlets, posters, laws, and court decisions.
  • Unpublished documents include personal letters, diaries, journals, wills, deeds, family Bibles containing family histories, school report cards, unpublished business records such as correspondence, financial ledgers, information about customers, board meeting minutes, and research and development files.
  • Oral traditions and oral histories spoken words, stories and tales. 
  • Visual documents include photographs, films, paintings, and other types of artwork including works from a painter, sculptor, film maker, or photographer.
Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened." You can take a look at some background information by visiting the Library of Congress lesson plan about Primary Sources by visiting http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/psteach.html
 
Reference:
(2002) The Learning Page... The Historian's Sources. Retrieved Nov. 01, 2002, from The Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/pshome.html
 
Please feel free to forward this to all teachers that may be interested!