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Exploring White House HistoryResources from the White House Historical Association
Courtney Speckmann and Katie Munn
The White House Historical Association
The David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History at Decatur House
Overview and Objectives
• Identify functions of the White House with a special focus on the War of 1812 (i.e. what to teach!)
• Explore primary source document analysis techniques
• Utilize WH teaching activities and resources for the classroom
Park
Stage
Home
Office
Museum
Procedure:1.Follow Instructions to divide image into four corners.
2. Present students with only one corner at a time. Ask questions about the details.
3. After corner 3 or 4, let students make a guess about the picture.
4. Display full image and discuss.
Lower Right
Technique: Four Corners
Lower Left
Upper Left
Upper Right
Procedure:
1. Identify what students are looking for (clues).
2. Identify the image
3. Discuss why the clues are significant to the image
Technique: Scavenger Hunt
Procedure:
1. Ask questions about the image details:
• What do you see in the picture?
• What do these details tell you?
• What type of image is it?
2. Help students make conclusions (who, what, when, where, why)
3. Students stage picture and talk in place.
Technique: Tableau
Technique: Enlarged Details
Procedure:
1. Give students a set of primary source documents covering a single theme or event to analyze.
2. Have students analyze each primary source.
• What type of primary source is this?
• What is the purpose of this primary source? Or, what is happening in this primary source?
• What does this primary source tell us about the topic?
3. Have students choose documents to display in their exhibit.
4. Create an exhibit using the primary sources. Include an exhibit title and labels for each primary source.
5. Share exhibits with the class.
Technique: Create Your Own Exhibit
The War of 1812 and the White House
Type of source What is happening in this source? And/Or:What is the purpose of this source?
What does this source tell us about life in the Lincoln White House?
Use in exhibit?
The President’s HouseGeorge Munger
c. 1814-15Watercolor on paper
Pre-Visit Resource Packet Includes:
•Pre-visit lesson with optional activities•Information regarding the day of the field trip•Additional 1812 resources•Cast List•Script•Character bios and cue sheets for the students
Forged by Fire: Dolley Madison, the White House, and the War of 1812
Forged by Fire: Day of the Field Trip Program
Forged by Fire: Day of the Field Trip Program
Forged by Fire: Day of the Field Trip Program
“Actually being real people had a great influence on them. It helped them to personalize the history instead of hearing about it without realizing that these were real people.”
“My students will always understand and remember the causes of the War of 1812 and the differences between the two political parties of the day.”
Paths to Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation and the Power of the President
• Standards based with emphasis on historical thinking skills and primary source analysis
• Students:– explore the historic spaces
of Decatur House and its slave quarters
– trace the changing community in and around the White House neighborhood
– piece together stories of real residents of the neighborhood and create their own exhibit
African Americans in the White House Neighborhood
Online Resources
www.whitehousehistory.org
White House History Themes
Classroom Lessons
The White House Art Collection
www.whitehouseresearch.org
Upcoming Programs and Events
www.whitehousehistory.org/programs
Questions?
Courtney Speckmann- [email protected] Munn- [email protected]
www.whitehousehistory.org@whitehousehstry