Jonny Smith
Social Studies Methods
Dr. Strickland; Dr. Cotterell
2/21/09
Primary Documents Lesson Plan
Standards:
• Standard Set 6.4.12 J. The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
o 5. Compare and contrast key events and people involved with the causes, course, and consequences of World War II, including: [My choices.]
 Pearl Harbor.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt.
o 6. Describe the political background leading to American involvement in World War II, the course of the war in Europe and Asia, the mobilization of women and African Americans into the military and related industries, the segregated military, the use of the Atom Bomb, and the founding of the United Nations. [Select issues.]
Essential Questions:
• What is an appropriate response to war-like actions perpetrated against a country, such as the Pearl Harbor attacks? By the citizenry? By the government?
• What happens in 1942,3, 4 and 5 if Pearl Harbor is not attacked?
Primary Documents:
• A. First Order Document:
o Roosevelt, Franklin D., Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation; December 8, 1941.
• B. Second Order Documents:
o Oral History of Lieutenant Ruth Erickson, NC (Nurse Corps), USN.
o Photographic Documentation Including:
 “Pearl Harbor Taken By Surprise”
 “Sunken Battleship USS West Virginia”
o Oral History of Captain John E. Lacouture, USN.
• C. Third Order Documents:
o “Japanese Tries Suicide: Brooded on How to Make Amends for His Country’s Treachery”; New York Times Article, January 15, 1942.
o Photographic Documentation Including:
 “Japan’s Imperial Navy”
o “Interview With Pearl Harbor Eye Witnesses”
o Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941, The Japanese View

Assessment Tools:
FIGURE 1:
Primary Analysis Guide to Historical Thinking: Print Documents
1. Identify the Document
a. Author(s) or source:
b. Title:
c. Date:
d. Type of Document:
2. Analyze the Document
a. Main idea of the document:
b. Relationship to other documents (How does the content relate to the 1st – 2nd and/or 3rd –order documents?):
c. Preceding conditions that motivated the author:
d. Intended audience and purpose:
e. Biases of the author:
f. Questions to ask the author:
3. Historical Context: Important people, events and at the time of the document
a. Local/Regional: people, events and ideas of the time:
b. World: people, events, and the ideas of the time:
c. Conclusions about local/regional, national, and world context at the time:
4. Identify the Habit of Mind and Vital Theme and Narrative Represented
a. Habit of Mind:
i. The way you used this Habit of Mind to analyze the document:
b. Vital Theme and Narrative:
i. Evidence the document represents this Vital Theme and Narrative:
ii. Evidence the document relates to other documents (1st - /2nd - / 3rd –order) through this Vital Theme and Narrative:
5. Relationship to a Discipline in the Social Sciences/Social Studies
a. Discipline:
b. Evidence of relationship:
c. NCSS Theme:
d. Evidence of relationship:
FIGURE 2:
Primary Source Analysis Guide to Historical Thinking: Photography/Image
1. Identify the Document
a. Photographer or source:
b. Title:
c. Date:
d. Type of Document
2. Analyze the Source:
a. Main idea of the source:
i. What do you see (people or objects) in the image?
ii. What are people, if any, doing in this image?
iii. Who do you think these people are?
iv. What does this image tell you about ways of living?
v. When do you think this image was created?
vi. Why do you think this image was created?
b. Preceding conditions that motivated the producer of the image:
c. Intended audience and purpose:
d. Relationship to other sources (How does the content relate to the 1st – 2nd and/or 3rd –order sources?):
e. Biases of the image’s producer:
f. Questions to ask the image’s producer:
3. Historical Context: Important people, events and ideas at the time of the image’s creation
a. Locale/Regional: people, events, and ideas of the time:
b. National: people, events, and ideas of the time:
c. World: people, events, and the ideas of the time:
d. Conclusions about local/regional, national, and world context at the time:
4. Indentify the Habit of Mind and Vital Theme and Narrative Represented
a. Habit of Mind:
i. The way you used this Habit of Mind to analyze the image:
b. Vital Theme and Narrative:
i. Evidence the image represents this Vital Theme and Narrative:
c. Evidence the image relates to other sources (1st – 2nd – and/or 3rd –order) through this Vital Theme and Narrative:
5. Relationship to a Discipline in the Social Sciences/Social Studies
a. Discipline:
b. Evidence of relationship:
c. NCSS Theme:
d. Evidence of relationship: