Have participants display their personal artifacts on a table. They gather notes on a few of the artifacts throughout this activity by creating a matrix chart like the one below. The facilitator should become soundly acquainted with all of the features of Using Primary Sources in the Classroom and Historian's Sources Lesson in order to feel comfortable with leading the teachers through the above activities. Facilitator may want to print parts of these two sources for participants to review and study. This activity may provide background prior to reading or may serve to extend and enrich works already read.
Participants select a passage from an anthology that can serve as their literary source.
This may be able to serve as their model in the classroom if they are able to choose carefully. Participants may elect to share their poems, the primary sources and the literary piece with each other in a Gallery Walk format. Teachers select a literary work or a group of literary works that will serve as a theme for the artifact lesson they present to their classes. This theme may be from an anthology used for reading instruction or from a collection of chapter books the students have read or are about read. Participants are given time to search and guidance in searching the American Memory Collections for artifacts to support the themes they select.