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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
One way to engage students with the wealth of maps available from the Library of Congress is to discuss their value as sources of information as well as means to find a location or plan a route.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Contemporary United States (1945-present), Geography and Maps, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Welcome (or welcome back!) to Teaching with the Library of Congress, where we hope you discover and discuss the most effective techniques for using Library of Congress primary sources in the classroom. We invite readers to engage with topics ranging from What Makes a Primary Source a Primary Source? to what's happening "next month in history?" Here are staff picks for places to start - or continue - teaching with primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
One way to engage students with what they're reading, without turning an extra-curricular club into a class, is to introduce Library of Congress primary and secondary sources related to a particular book, a particular author, or to reading in general.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
The role of the Ambassador is to raise “national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.” DiCamillo, the fourth to hold this position, has chosen “Stories Connect Us” as her theme, saying “When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see each other.”
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, News and Events, Poetry and Literature