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    This document provides guidance for teachers to help students analyze manuscripts by having them observe details, ask questions, and reflect on the source. It includes sample observation and reflection questions for students such as describing what they see, noticing unusual aspects, and generating hypotheses about who created it and why. Teachers are encouraged to help students identify appropriate further questions for research to better understand the source. Follow-up activity ideas for students include summarizing a section, speculating about the purpose and intended audience, and examining how the source supports or contradicts their existing knowledge.

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    This document provides guidance for teachers to help students analyze manuscripts by having them observe details, ask questions, and reflect on the source. It includes sample observation and reflection questions for students such as describing what they see, noticing unusual aspects, and generating hypotheses about who created it and why. Teachers are encouraged to help students identify appropriate further questions for research to better understand the source. Follow-up activity ideas for students include summarizing a section, speculating about the purpose and intended audience, and examining how the source supports or contradicts their existing knowledge.

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    This document provides guidance for teachers to help students analyze manuscripts by having them observe details, ask questions, and reflect on the source. It includes sample observation and reflection questions for students such as describing what they see, noticing unusual aspects, and generating hypotheses about who created it and why. Teachers are encouraged to help students identify appropriate further questions for research to better understand the source. Follow-up activity ideas for students include summarizing a section, speculating about the purpose and intended audience, and examining how the source supports or contradicts their existing knowledge.

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    Ask students to identify and note details.


    Sample Questions:

    Describe what you see

    What do you notice first?

    How much of the text can you read? What does it say?

    Analyzing Manuscripts

    Guide students with the sample questions as they respond to the


    primary source. Encourage them to go back and forth between
    the columns; there is no correct order.

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    What do you see that looks strange or unfamiliar?

    How are the words arranged?

    What do you notice

    about the page the writing appears on?


    you see on the page besides writing?

    What do

    What other

    details can you see?

    Encourage students to generate and test


    hypotheses about the source.

    Invite students to ask questions that lead


    to more observations and reflections.

    Why do you think this manuscript was made?

    What do you wonder about...

    do you think created it?

    Who

    Who do you think was

    intended to read it, if anyone?

    what?

    when?

    where?

    why?

    how?

    What do you think

    was happening when it was created?


    and materials were used to create it?
    you learn from examining this?

    who?

    What tools
    What can

    If someone created

    something like this today, what would be different?

    What would be the same?

    f u rt h e r i n v e s t i g at i o n

    Help students to identify questions appropriate for further investigation, and to develop a research strategy for finding answers.
    Sample Question:

    What more do you want to know, and how can you find out?

    A few follow-up
    activity ideas:

    Beginning
    Have students choose a section of the manuscript and put it in
    their own words.
    Intermediate
    Select a section of a manuscript. Speculate about the purpose
    of the manuscript, and what the person, or people, who created
    it expected it to accomplish. Do you think it achieved their
    goals? Explain why you think so.

    | LOC.gov/teachers

    Advanced
    Examine a section of the manuscript. Think about what you
    already know about this period in history. How does the
    manuscript support or contradict your current understanding
    of this period? Can you see any clues to the point of view of the
    person who created this manuscript?

    For more tips on using primary


    sources, go to
    http://www.loc.gov.teachers

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