Mark Twain's America. Little, Brown, 1932. Larson, Captain Ron. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Pocket Books, 1973.
Primary sources expose students to multiple perspectives on issues of the past and present.
By working with primary sources, students will be able to critically evaluate information resources for content, validity, authoritativeness, perspective, relevancy and accuracy. In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze primary resources such as those that are found in American Memory . Following their investigations, students will share their findings and interpretations as they relate to what was happening between 1850 and 1900.