Foreign Language Workshop

Language and Culture at the Library of Congress

Foreign Language Links

Essential Question:

How do primary documents reflect cultures?

Understanding Goal

Primary sources foster student understanding of the curriculum through the processes of explanation, application, interpretation, empathy, perspective, and self-knowledge

As a result of this workshop,

participants will know

• Primary sources can be used to widen students’ understanding of cultures and of ourselves.
• Foreign language resources that are available at the Library of Congress.

participants will be able to

• Navigate the Library of Congress Web site.
• Draw meaning from primary sources.

Performance tasks

• Investigate the Library of Congress Web site for useful resources.
• Share brainstormed ideas of classroom applications using the model activities.

Agenda

• Welcome and Introduction Survey
• Evidence of Culture

Web sites of interest

• World War I Posters
• Carpenter's Collection
• American Ballroom Companion
• Florida Folklife
• California Gold

Searching Guides:

• Library of Congress Search Guide
• American Memory Search Guide
• Prints and Photographs Search Guide
• Map Collections

Using the Flash Drive and Saving Library of Congress Resources

• Saving a Permanent URL
• Movie and directions from the Library of Congress on saving a permanent URL
• Library of Congress Web site Scavenger Hunt
• Images Draw You In

Beyond American Memory

• AANMVA Curriculum Development and Searching Opportunity

Closing and Evaluation

• Evaluation