Table of Contents – Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes in Social Studies

Chapter 4: Exploring More Themes
Choosing a Theme
How to Research a Theme
Keep the End in Mind: The Essential Question
Doing the Research – Secondary Sources
Doing the Research – Locating Primary Sources
Reading and Interpreting the Primary Sources
Creating Themed Units and Lessons

References
Index

About Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes in Social Studies

Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes, a book by Cynthia W. Resor, explores the history of vacation & travel and the history of manners & etiquette, from ancient times to the 20^th century. The focus is on the lives of average people and their daily lives and routines and how our daily lives both change and stay the same over the centuries.

Historical images and excerpts from historical texts are featured in each themed chapter. This book is excellent for general readers who love learning more about everyday life in the past. However, it was specially written for educators in museums, public history sites such as historic houses, and classroom teachers. The majority of the book summarizes key social history themes for the busy educator. The unique primary source sets, reading guides, and essential/compelling questions for students are provided that encourage thematic instruction, inquiry learning, and development of critical literacy skills aligned with the Common Core Standards for Literacy and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards.

Each themed chapter also includes suggestions for extending each theme to current events, the local community through place-based education, and across content areas for interdisciplinary instruction. The last chapter provides guidance on how to research more historical themes, find relevant primary sources, and prepare themed lessons and units.

• About the Cover
• Reading guides
• For the Teacher – reading guide answers (password protected)
• Primary source images for teaching vacation and etiquette/manners themes

More BOOKS on Social history/Everyday Life in the Past by Cynthia Resor:

• Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes​
• Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies

Related PRIMARY SOURCE BAZAAR BLOG POSTS

• Old Postcards: Messages about the Past
• Classroom Manners: Analyzing behavior with primary sources
• Pilgrimage as a Medieval “Vacation”
• Etiquette of Visiting or Calling Cards
• What has replaced 19th Century Parlors and Calling Cards?
• What Amazing Egyptian Chicken Hatcheries Can Tell Us about Perceptions of Other Places
• Scrapbooks: Comparing 19th-century primary sources to 21st social media
• The problem with asking students “What did you do on your summer vacation?”
• Camping: A Night Under the Stars is Not Always a Vacation
• Telephone Etiquette in the 1950s

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

• “Who Am I?” – Primary Source Mystery Activity
• Classroom Activity: Postcards from the Past
• Relationship Etiquette: Classroom Activity