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Classroom Practice

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Chronicling

America

Google HangoutMarch 27, 2013

3:00 EDT

Panel

• Diane Cormack, School Library Media SpecialistNorwood Elementary, Harrison County, WV

• Ruth Ferris, School LibrarianWashington Elementary School, Billings, MT

• Cheryl Lederle Ensign, Education Resources SpecialistLibrary of Congress

• Deborah Thomas, Digital Projects CoordinatorChronicling America, Library of Congress

• Robin Butterhof, Digital Conversion SpecialistChronicling America, Library of Congress

About Chronicling America


From 1836-1922… history’s markers


NOW • 7.3 million pages• 32 state providers• 130,000 pages in French, Italian,

German, Spanish2014+• Addition of Connecticut, Florida,

Idaho, Mississippi, Puerto Rico• New languages – Danish, Hungarian,

Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish…

Teacher Resources

Primary Source SetsAmerican Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe

The Civil War: The Nation Moves Towards War, 1850-61

Harlem Renaissance

Mexican American Migrations and Communities

The Spanish-American War: The United States Becomes a World Power

Lesson PlanThe Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking

Using Chronicling America

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/american-authors-nineteenth-century/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-approach/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/harlem-renaissance/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/mexican-americans/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/spanish-american-war/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/titanic/

Teacher Resources

• Finding Treasures in an Archive of Historical Newspapers: Chronicling America

• 12 Years a Slave: Primary Sources on the Kidnapping of Free African Americans

• Helping Students Visualize the Process of Change with Historic Images

• Teaching with Informational Text: Historic Newspapers from the Library of Congress

• Presidential Elections: Newspapers and Complex Text

• The Titanic: In the News and in Memory

• Informational Text, the Common Core, and the Library of Congress: A Resource Center Rich with Primary Sources and Teacher Tools

Blog Posts – Instructional Suggestions Using Newspapers

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2011/09/finding-treasures-in-an-archive-of-historical-newspapers-chronicling-america/

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/11/12-years-a-slave-primary-sources-on-the-kidnapping-of-free-african-americans/

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/12/helping-students-visualize-the-process-of-change-with-historic-images/

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/03/teaching-with-informational-text-historic-newspapers-from-the-library-of-congress/

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/09/presidential-elections-newspapers-and-complex-text/

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/04/the-titanic-in-the-news-and-in-memory/

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/02/informational-text-the-common-core-and-the-library-of-congress-a-resource-center-rich-with-primary-sources-and-teacher-tools/

From Our Educator Panelist

Girl from the Gulches - The Story of Mary Ronan Study Guidehttp://mhs.mt.gov/education/MaryRonan_LessonPlan_Final.pdf

History Mystery – Using Historic Newspapershttp://librarydragonink.weebly.com/historic-newspapers.html

Windows To My Life Bloghttp://windows2mylife.blogspot.com/

Ruth FerrisBillings, MT

http://mhs.mt.gov/education/MaryRonan_LessonPlan_Final.pdf

http://librarydragonink.weebly.com/historic-newspapers.html

http://windows2mylife.blogspot.com/


Day of the Blizzard by Marietta Moskin

Texts for differentiation and extensionsBlizzard!: The 1888 Whiteout by Jacqueline BallBlizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim MurphyThe Children's Blizzard by David LaskinCity of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888 by Linda OatmanHigh and Laura Francesca FilippucciAnna's Blizzard by Alison Hart Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm by Carla Stevens Panic in the Snow : The 1888 New York City Blizzard by Bonnie Highsmith Taylor

Diane CormackHarrison County, WV


Newspapers from Chronicling America about Blizzard of 1888

• The Abbeville Press And Banner., March 28, 1888, Image 2

• Bismarck Weekly Tribune., March 23, 1888, Image 4

• Burlington Weekly Free Press., March 16, 1888, Image 1

• Evening Capital Journal., March 15, 1888, Image 1

• Clinch Valley News., March 23, 1888, Image 2


http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026853/1888-03-28/ed-1/seq-2/






Newspapers from Chronicling America about Blizzard of 1888

• Los Angeles Daily Herald., March 13, 1888, Image 1

• Omaha Daily Bee., March 22, 1888, Image 1

• Sacramento Daily Record-union., March 13, 1888, Image 1

• Sacramento Daily Record-union., March 14, 1888, Image 1

• St. Paul Daily Globe., March 20, 1888, Page 4, Image 4







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