Maine Memory Network

Author: Dennis D. Edmondson, Mt. Ararat High School, Sagadahoc County

Year created: 2015

Suggested Grade Levels: 9-12

Content Areas and Strands:

• Social Studies -- History

Duration: 3 days

Time Period:

• 1921-today

Themes:

• Community
• The People/Peopling of Maine

Description:

Learn about immigration in the United States using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.

Intended Outcomes:

• Students will be able to use primary and secondary historical sources as well as previous historical knowledge to construct a response that will display the similarities and the differences between Immigration in Maine and the nation as a whole in the 1920s; they will be able to prepare a comparative history of major developments.

Download Lesson Plan

Additional Resources:

• Download samples of student work from the The Not So Open Door lesson plan

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A resource developed by the Maine Historical Society with support from the Teaching with Primary Resources grant from the Library of Congress