This document provides instructions for an activity where students will analyze primary sources related to an historical event using the SCIM-C method. The SCIM-C method involves questioning the source, making inferences from it, contextualizing it by considering when and how it was produced, and summarizing what the source conveys. Students will then use the analyzed sources to reconstruct the historical event being studied, demonstrating their understanding of the political, social and historical significance through a written paragraph or storyboard.

1. Historical Scene
Investigation By: Erin Weiss
Dining With Washington

2. How do historians use primary
sources to reconstruct the
past, analyze cause and effect, and
determine significance?
SOL: VUS.1a,b,c,d,e,h,j;
VUS.8c

3.  #1 Construct a chronology of black history
in America including significant
events, people, organizations, etc.
 #2 Evaluate primary sources of an event in
history using the SCIM-C method.
 #3 Reconstruct the event both visually and
orally to demonstrate understanding of the
political scene, social culture, and
historical significance.

4.  Think/Pair/Share
 Instructions:Construct a timeline of black
history in America including significant
events, people, organizations, etc.
1850 2010

5.  Investigate
each document using the
SCIM-C method

6. Question: ?
Monitoring/Questioning: What else would I like to find out?
Monitoring/Questioning: What else would I like to find out?
What questions do I now need to ask?
Inferencing: What does the source suggest?
Inferencing: What does this source suggest?
Contextualizing: When, Why, source produced? produced?
Contextualizing: When, why and how was the How source
Summarizing: What does the source tell us?
Summarizing: What does the source
tell us?
Source Source Description
Description: Morale Poster

7.  Use SCIM-C worksheet to analyze and
synthesize documents and begin to piece
together as a historical event.
 Significance Storyline: Write a paragraph
or create a storyboard of Dining with
Washington