Objectives, Purpose, Outcomes

Objectives of the Lesson Plan

  • Students will distinguish between primary and secondary sources.
  • Students will acquire and apply investigative skills to locate and use sources.
  • Students will learn how information and experiences affect, are interpreted, and evolve from different frames of reference, people, and culture.
  • Students will articulate the implications of cultural diversity, as well as cohesion, within and across groups.
  • Students will collect, study, and use primary sources to compare, contrast, and articulate cultural diversity, events, and impact from the past to the present.

The Purpose of Learning Primary Sources

  • Understanding that reading and writing history is an interpretive act.
  • Studying primary sources instead of secondary sources allows researchers to make their own opinions about a historical topic. 

Intended Outcomes of the Lesson Plan

  • Students will learn about agriculture in the 20th century, specifically tobacco mecahnization. Students will see how industrialization and mechanization affects various social groups in agriculture.
  • Students will understand that writing history is about interpreting sources not creating facts.
  • Students will understand the biases between the creation of textual documents, media, and oral histories.

A Note

Students need to understand that the primary sources provided do not represent the entire range of historical documents from each period. For this reason, the portrayal of race, age, and gender in the primary sources is not representative of historical reality.

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Objectives, Purpose, Outcomes