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 * **Grade/Content Area:** || 7th Grade Social Studies ||
 * **Lesson Title:** || Understanding Primary and Secondary Sources ||
 * **GLE's/GSE's:** || R-7-14.2 Reading from a wide range of genres/kinds of text, including primary and secondary sources, and a variety of authors (e.g ., literary, informational, and practical/functional texts) (Local) ||
 * **Context of the lesson:** || In teaching students to view things from the point of view of a historian, my co-social studies teacher and I implemented a lesson plan to introduce the use of primary and secondary sources. ||
 * **Opportunities to Learn:** || * Accessing prior knowledge though use of anticipation guide
 * Individual seatwork working through classifying resources as primary and secondary
 * Group work to discuss individual answers and come to consensus on which seems most correct
 * A second opportunity to determine whether learning has occurred will happen at the conclusion of the lesson when students fill out their own exit slips ||
 * **Objectives:** || * Students will be able to determine the difference between a primary and secondary source.
 * Students will be able to verbalize why primary documents or artifacts are especially important to historians in comparison to secondary document and artifacts. ||
 * **Instructional Procedures:** ||  ||
 * **Opening:** || Anticipation guide regarding primary and secondary sources to determine prior knowledge. ||
 * **Engagement:** || Students will be given the definitions of primary and secondary resources. Next, teachers will give a few examples of each type of source verbally. Students will complete the primary and secondary resource worksheet independently. Then students will discuss their answers in small groups and come to a consensus regarding whether or not an artifact is in fact primary or secondary. ||
 * **Closure:** || Classroom whip to review answers from the worksheet. ||
 * **Assessment:** || Formative assessment exit slip to determine whether students truly understand the difference between these two types of sources. Compare and contrast the types of resources that historians use to piece together the past? ||