- What's the power of teaching with primary sources?
- How do you get students to dig into sourcing?
- What are any challenges you notice students struggling with when analyzing primary sources?
Thank you all so much for coming to our primary sources session. Here are the inoculation sources we chatted about.
George Washington's letter on inoculating the troops:
The Mount Vernon site has the letter scanned, which would be cool to show students and it also has a transcript tab: https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-source-collections/primary-source-collections/article/smallpox-inoculation-letter
The National Archives also has it on their site: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-08-02-0281
Then, the Adams' letters are here: https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760713aa
And also on the National Archives site: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0023
Looking forward to reading all your sourcing tips!
Thank you all so much for coming to our primary sources session. Here are the inoculation sources we chatted about.
George Washington's letter on inoculating the troops:
The Mount Vernon site has the letter scanned, which would be cool to show students and it also has a transcript tab: https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-source-collections/primary-source-collections/article/smallpox-inoculation-letter
The National Archives also has it on their site: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-08-02-0281
Then, the Adams' letters are here: https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760713aa
And also on the National Archives site: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0023
Looking forward to reading all your sourcing tips!