How reliable is a painting of the first Thanksgiving if it was created 300 years after the fact? Learners assess the validity of a primary source image to determine what it can actually reveal about this event. 

Concepts

thanksgiving, colonial america, the first thanksgiving, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• The resource suggests extending the skill of sourcing a document using other primary sources. Consider finding more and jigsawing this as a class, or asking students to find examples

Pros

• Links are provided to the resources needed, and you can also find them in the Included Materials section 
• Full-color image of the painting is on page 4

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.7