Library of Congress. (n.d.). Primary source analysis tool.
This form helps students discover primary sources beginning with concrete observations and facts and moving into questioning and inferences based on the materials. The observe-reflect-question model easily facilitates this process, and the further investigation section invites additional inquiry.
Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards – English Language Arts
ELA.9.C.1.4 Communication Standards – Expository Writing – Write expository texts to explain and analyze information from multiple sources, using a logical organization, varied purposeful transitions, and a tone appropriate to the task.
Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS)
- Strand: Reading Standards for Literature, Cluster 3: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas – LAFS.910.RL.3.7 – Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
- Strand: Writing Standards, Cluster 4: Range of Writing – LAFS.910.W.4.10 – Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time framers (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.