Off-Line Student mementos e.g. baby pictures, artwork, stories, toys, awards. Textual and graphical materials from local archives. Colored folders for student organization of archival materials. Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 3. The lesson begins with an activity that helps students understand the historical record.
Students then learn techniques for analyzing primary sources.
Finally, students apply these techniques to analyze documents about slavery in the United States. Students can also find primary source material about immigrant life at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Web site.