It can be extended over six days or class sessions, longer if students' projects are more elaborate. Students may work in groups to gather as many examples of primary sources as they can, presenting the collection as the team's efforts. Have individuals exchange their collections of primary sources. She recently purchased a new set of dishes from a local store, etc. Students should utilize conventions of proper grammar, spelling, mechanics, sentence structure.
Teacher can emphasize specificity, description, making valid inferences.
Fiction and non-fiction background may include The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and selections from Studs Terkel's oral histories of the Great Depression, Hard Times . This historical frame of reference is necessary if students are to place these archival photographs in context. The Drobish photographs, Groups 1 through 4, are primarily of structures and grounds in the government migrant labor camps in Kern County, California. Group 5 includes photographs of Hoovervilles in Sacramento, California. This is federal government attempt to build livable housing for migrant workers.