Little Women on Masterpiece: (9-12, American literature) Broadcast Schedule Resources April 20-22, 2020
Primary Source Analysis Tool: Generic tool to help students analyze Vegas PBS broadcast programs Further Reading: Engaging all Learners with Primary Sources ______
Little Women Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women tells the story of the four March girls as they make the transition to womanhood and struggle to conform to society’s strict ideals of femininity in the midst of poverty. The story is set in 1860s Massachusetts.
April 20, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m. Part 1: Christmas, 1861. The March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - prepare for a Christmas without presents or their father.
April 21, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m. Part 2: As Marmee waits by her husband’s sickbed, the March sisters must fend for themselves at home.
April 22, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m. Part 3: A year has passed and there are new additions to the March family - but there is worry all around as Beth’s health and spirits flag
The following PBS LearningMedia resources are applicable to all three parts of the series:
Teaching Guide Exploring Little Women This teaching guide helps instructors use a specific primary source set,offering discussion questions, classroom activities, and primary source analysis tools.
Primary Source Resource Set for Little Women Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills using primary sources.
Little Women on Masterpiece: (9-12, American literature) Broadcast Schedule Resources April 20-22, 2020 Additional Resources: Document Analysis Worksheets from the National Archives Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments. Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress Examining primary sources gives students a powerful sense of history and the complexity of the past. Helping students analyze primary sources can also guide them toward higher-order thinking and better critical thinking and analysis skills.