Primary Source Analysis: How should I approach reading a primary source?
Document 1: We are going to take testimony now from the Colonized.
Once again, please follow this form in analyzing the document entitled "The Coming of the Pink Cheeks." You will add this information to your investigation logbook. Paste the steps below into your google doc and add your own answers there, and make sure the document is shared with me.
1. PREPARATION: Learning is a process of hanging new information on a framework of knowledge that already exists in your mind. Before starting to read, ask yourself a couple of questions to help identify your framework, and write down your thoughts (no more than a paragraph) in your logbook
- What do I already know about this subject?
- What do I want to get out of this reading?
2. WHILE READING: Try to think critically while reading a primary source. To do this, ask yourself the following questions, and write up a summary (no more than a paragraph) in your logbook:
- What is the author saying? What information are you getting from this?
- What does the author want you to think or do?
- Do you agree or disagree with the author? How does the author support the argument?
- Who is this person, and what makes me trust what the author is telling me (or not)?
3. AFTER READING: Once you have read the material, take a few moments to reflect on it. Ask yourself the following questions, and write down a summary of your thoughts in your logbook:
- Can you repeat in a short statement what the author’s main points were?
- How does the author confirm what you knew before?
- How does what you read change what you thought you knew before you started reading?
- What questions remain that you want to explore in this class?
- If you were going to start a discussion about this reading, what questions would you raise for the class?
Document 1: We are going to take testimony now from the Colonized.
Once again, please follow this form in analyzing the document entitled "The Coming of the Pink Cheeks." You will add this information to your investigation logbook. Paste the steps below into your google doc and add your own answers there, and make sure the document is shared with me.
1. PREPARATION: Learning is a process of hanging new information on a framework of knowledge that already exists in your mind. Before starting to read, ask yourself a couple of questions to help identify your framework, and write down your thoughts (no more than a paragraph) in your logbook
- What do I already know about this subject?
- What do I want to get out of this reading?
2. WHILE READING: Try to think critically while reading a primary source. To do this, ask yourself the following questions, and write up a summary (no more than a paragraph) in your logbook:
- What is the author saying? What information are you getting from this?
- What does the author want you to think or do?
- Do you agree or disagree with the author? How does the author support the argument?
- Who is this person, and what makes me trust what the author is telling me (or not)?
3. AFTER READING: Once you have read the material, take a few moments to reflect on it. Ask yourself the following questions, and write down a summary of your thoughts in your logbook:
- Can you repeat in a short statement what the author’s main points were?
- How does the author confirm what you knew before?
- How does what you read change what you thought you knew before you started reading?
- What questions remain that you want to explore in this class?
- If you were going to start a discussion about this reading, what questions would you raise for the class?
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Document 2: We are again doing your Compare, Contrast, and Extend exercise. This will allow us to do a more in depth analysis of the documents.
Choose 2 documents from the list below (testimonies by the colonized, or Europeans sympathetic to them.) Rather than do ALL the steps above, you will do these 3 steps instead, entering this information into your logbook:
1. Comparing means looking for similarities. Which aspects of these new stories confirm or resemble aspects of the other statement you read?
2. Contrasting means looking for differences. Which aspects of these statements seem different or contradictory from the others?
3. Extending means adding new information and looking for new avenues of research. When you add both statements together, what new things do you now know about your topic, and what further questions are developing?
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