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ERIC Number: EJ644028
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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Social Education, v64 n5 pm7-8 Sep 2000
States that two primary sources of historical information about the Great Irish Famine are newspaper articles and diaries. Provides six newspaper accounts about the Irish Famine from 1845 to 1848 and journal entries by Elizabeth Smith (a landowner's wife in Ireland) describing the conditions in Ireland in 1847. Includes questions. (CMK)
Descriptors: Diaries, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Learning Activities, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Newspapers, Primary Sources, Social Studies, World History
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Learner; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Famine; Ireland
Note: Part of the supplement "Middle Level Learning" for this issue of Social Education.