4.5 - Document lesson: Thanksgiving and socialism?

This file includes a full document-based lesson:

• 6 secondary sources grouped around a guiding question
• A handout on historical literacy (sourcing, contextualizing, reading and inferring, and corroborating)
• A mini-activity introducing the political spectrum in the United States
• A graphic organizer for focusing attention on key information, organizing ideas, and drawing attention to similarities and differences between the sources
• Support for students working virtually and/or independently:
  • Model answers in the student handout
  • Video guidance modeling how to read and take notes on the sources (the thumbnail in the PDF is hyperlinked to an unlisted YouTube URL)

• A complete answer key for the graphic organizers/guided notes
• An explicit focus on historical literacy (attending to source information, context, inferences, and corroboration)