IR+primary+sources

Industrial Revolution Primary Source Document Scavenger Hunt!

You are going to be selecting a series of primary source documents to chronicle what happened during the Industrial Revolution. You need to find at least 2 psds (primary source documents) per theme and explain the meaning and relevance of these documents to the theme. This is going to be your personal portfolio of work, and will be submitted as one entity (either a google drive folder, a folder in dropbox, or stapled together).

You will be including the image/text/whatever in your virtual or hard copy portfolio. Discussing a primary source document without being able to see it is really challenging. Please put the URL of the document underneath the document, or create a Turabian style bibliography, your choice.

Remember that this is world history, primary source documents will range in years of origin within the late 1800s, but all docs will be from Europe or a colony of Europe (The US stopped being a colony before this, we call it the Revolutionary War) so no documents from the Lowell Mills or anywhere in the US.

Themes: Changes in social and economic hierarchies Movement to the cities Reactions to new technologies What to do with leisure time Factory conditions New roles for women

For each primary source document, please create a document that follows this format. It will be challenging and perhaps impossible to answer all of these questions for each of your primary source documents, but you have the opportunity to make an educated guess here...that is if you have done the research.

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-Background of creator: What do you know about the author? Race, sex, class, occupation, religion, age, region, political beliefs? Does any of this matter? Explain: ======

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-Purpose of document: Think about the purpose of the source. What was the author's message or argument? What was he/she trying to get across? How does an observer know this? Is the message explicit, or are there implicit messages as well? ======

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-Content of document: What can a careful reading/analysis of the text (even if it is an object) tell you? How does the language work? What are the important metaphors or symbols? What can the author's choice of words/images tell you? What about the silences--what does the author choose NOT to talk about? ======

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-Perspective: Does it tell you about the beliefs/actions of the elite, or of "ordinary" people? From whose perspective? ======

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-Choice: You chose this document, why? How does it speak to you? Why did you connect with it? ======