Tonight we dove deeper into using primary sources. \u00a0I felt like I was back in high school again reading and analyzing sources! \u00a0However, I got to practice the extra step of not only extracting information from a source but really decifering the underlying messages in text. \u00a0This activity was slightly difficult for me, as well as others I noticed, because I am used to just taking the top, superficial layer of text, what exactly is written on the page, as the truth. \u00a0It was hard to think in a more theoretical way and try to infer reasons not blatantly stated for why the Mongomery Bus Boycott was successful. \u00a0In my mind, history has always been based on facts, less scientific hypothesizing and more mathematical – a clear path or answer. \u00a0Through all the MBB discussion, I felt I gained useful insight into teaching the use of primary sources.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed the reading groups much more than I anticipated. \u00a0The book my group is reading,\u00a0Blood on the River<\/em>, takes place during one of my favorite times in history. \u00a0I like discussing the reading with my group members and reflecting on what we thought was interesting or important. \u00a0The various roles we all played, I was the setting and summary specialist this week, really gave us a chance to talk about different aspects of the story. \u00a0I can see how these reading group roles can truly be beneficial to students.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight we dove deeper into using primary sources. \u00a0I felt like I was back in high school again reading and analyzing sources! \u00a0However, I got to practice the extra step of not only extracting information from a source but really decifering the underlying messages in text. \u00a0This activity was slightly difficult for me, as well … Continue reading Week 3 Reflection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}