DBQ Source Analysis
Learning Objective
I can analyze the components of a source to determine its point of view, purpose, historical context, and intended audience.
Lesson Flow
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Guided Notes
Key concepts students will learn:
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Sharecropping after the Civil War led to a cycle of debt for African-American farmers, who had to give portions of their crops to white landowners.
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The Chicago Defender, a major black newspaper, assisted African Americans relocating to the North, but some feared being hoodwinked.
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An efficiency expert advised factory owners to segregate black workers from white workers, suggesting that white workers might be unfriendly to black workers.
Practice
3 questions • Short answer
Exit Ticket
“Explain the point of view, purpose, historical context, and intended audience of the following excerpt from an article in the magazine Industrial Management from 1918 by Dwight Thompson Farnum, an efficiency expert: "A certain amount of segregation is necessary at times to preserve the peace. This is especially true when Negroes are first introduced into a plant. It is a question if it is not always best to have separate washrooms and the like. In places where different races necessarily come into close contact and in places where inherited characteristics are especially accentuated, it is better to keep their respective folkways from clashing wherever possible."”
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