Q2: How do Sources Help Us Connect People and Events?
The second supporting question—… “How do sources help us connect people and events?” Ask students to begin building out their background knowledge and contextualizing the personal stories they have been exploring with national timeline events.
Teachers may implement this task with the following procedures…
Suggestion of pacing and direction for supporting Question 2:
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Utilizing different small groups, students will work in groups of three begin to explore national timeline and other sources in order to help them contextualize personal stories and how they compare and fit into the broader timeline of our nation’s history
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Continue to explore how people are connected and add information to maps and timelines
For example: if students mapped the birth location and where they migrated to- they may make a connection to the pattern of The Great Migration. When they look at sources regarding the national timeline and mark these events on their timeline- they might make the connection that a family may have moved to Detroit during the Great Migration looking for employment.
Sources
Sources from Supporting Question 1 as well as
Featured Source A: Article: Immigration Information and Resources for Detroit, Michigan
Featured Source B:. Article: A Brief History of the Great Migration
Featured Source C: Britannica Student Article: The Great Migration