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ERIC Number: EJ166693
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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A Ship's Manifest, 1847
Social Education, 41, 6, 540-1, Oct 77
Presents a copy of a ship's manifest from 1847 and describes five learning activities to help students identify and organize information found in the document. Students answer questions about the ship's passengers based on information given in the manifest, draw conclusions about immigration in mid-nineteenth century, and write a family history from primary sources. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Interpretive Reading, Learning Activities, Primary Sources, Research Tools, Resource Materials, Secondary Education, Social History, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
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