Book Backdrops: Connecting Literature and Primary Sources

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Book BackdropsConnecting Literatureand Primary
Sources

• A presentation of
• Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee

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What is ?

• Educational Outreach program of the Library of
  Congress
• Mission to provide educators with
• Skills to use the Library of Congress Web site
  most effectively
• Strategies and materials to engage students with
  primary sources for increasing higher order
  thinking skills

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What can Teaching with Primary Sources do for you?

• Workshops
• Educator materials
• Professional development / in-service credit
• Stipends for lesson plans

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Book Backdrops

• Activity incorporating literacy skills with
  English/Language Arts and Social Studies
• Connecting books (fiction and non-fiction) to
  primary sources

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Book Backdrops

• Professional development plan (online) from TPS
  Direct http//www.loc.gov/teachers/professionalde
  velopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/exports/fullexpo
  rt/Book-Backdrops.pdf

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HandoutCreating Book BackdropsUsing the
Inquiry Method

• Build vocabulary
• Connect to people, dates, events
• Search for primary sources
• Use primary sources as basis for discussion

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Book Mr. Lincolns Whiskers by Karen Winnick
(1999)
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Page
Context in book
Vocabulary
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Page
Person Date Event Place
Context in book / history
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Book Mr. Lincolns Whiskers by Karen Winnick
(1999)
Primary sources
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Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln, October 15,
1860. Holograph letter.
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For president, Abram Lincoln. For vice president,
Hannibal Hamlin 1860
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C.S. German. Abraham Lincoln. Albumen print,
possibly January 26, 1861. 
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Materials from Library of Congress Teachers
Page Themed ResourcesAbraham Lincoln
http//www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/th
emes/lincoln/index.html
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Contact me!Stacey GrahamProject Coordinator,
Teaching with Primary Sources Across
TennesseeCenter for Historic PreservationMTSU
Box 80Murfreesboro, TN 37132(615)
494-8783Stacey.Graham_at_mtsu.edu