Page 6 - Civil War Curriculum Book

• Ask students if they believe the document is an accurate representation of
what was happening.

• Why do they believe that?
• Do students think that outside events could influence what a person might
write or record about an event?
• Do students think that outside events could influence the way that they are
interpreting the document?
• What questions are left unanswered by the document? If you could ask
the author of the document a question, what would you ask?
• Have students exchange documents and answer the questions about their
new document.

Follow-up activities:

1. Suggest to students that they have primary source documents at home
(driver's license, birth certificate, report card, yearbook, letter, diary...).

2. Ask students to bring in a document that they would be willing share with the
class and analyze the documents.