Teaching with Informational Text: Historic Newspapers from the Library of Congress
by Guest BloggerAugust 1st, 2013
By Stephen Wesson
Earlier this week, the Core Knowledge Blog explained the need to guide students’ online research and highlighted the Library of Congress’s Primary Source Sets. In this post, which originally appeared on Teaching with the Library of Congress, Stephen Wesson offers ideas for engaging, Common Core-aligned lessons based on historical newspapers. Stephen Wesson is an educational resource specialist at the Library of Congress with extensive experience in education media.
The St. Paul Daily Globe, November 11, 1887
Here’s a question for anyone teaching with informational text, including teachers working to meet Common Core State Standards:
Where can you find a wide range of authors writing from varied points of view, making arguments with appeals to evidence, rich with rhetorical strategies and figurative language, often using a number of different media, all in one package? In historic
