Primary Sources Old and New:

Keys To Our Past7th Grade World History

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The Evans family, Wales (United Kingdom), 1898

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The Felder Family, Raleigh, North Carolina 2007

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What are some differences and similarities you notice between the two pictures?

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What do you notice about these modern family pictures based on what you saw in the two previous “posed” shots?

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What kind of picture would you like your family to have? Why?

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Essential Question (Objective):As a historian using pictures to study history, why do you need

to be careful when using pictures?How can pictures possibly create a false sense of the past?

(while at other times being very accurate)

Oral History

What do you think Oral History is?List five problems that might occur with

Oral History?1. Stories can be exaggerated.2. If the story is never passed on, it is lost.3. People forget key elements of the story.4. People leave out key elements on purpose.5. Parts of the story might not be understood

by all who hear it. (Lost in translation, inside jokes, etc.)

Oral History

Listen to the two following examples of growing up in 20th Century Britain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/htd_history/oral/act_growing_up_entry.shtml

By simply listening to these accounts, can you get a clear picture of what life was like for people during this time in Britain?

What do you to have remember as a historian when trying to create a story of what happened in the past?

Oral History

Now watch (and listen) to the following accounts of WWI Veterans.

While watching the video, write down details you find interesting that the men are talking about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3BeJ7PMkgQ&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

By simply having watched this video can you truly say that you know what it was like to be a soldier during WWI? Why or why not?

Oral History

Essential Question (Objective):

How is Oral History both useful and non-useful when trying to create an accurate picture of the past?