1. Which selection from "Dreams of a Barefoot Boy" did you just read?

2. What did you learn about life in a Midwestern town in 1900?

3. Write three questions about life in 1900 that were not answered in the reading selection.

4. Look at the document you've been given. What type of primary source is it?

____official record ____photograph/film ____cartoon

____letter ____map ____poster

____diary/journal ____artwork ____sound recording

____reminiscence ____advertisement ____artifact

____oral history ____newspaper ____book

5. Carefully examine the document and describe what you see (dates, stamps, names, notations, numbers, symbols, etc.).

6. Who created this document?

7. Why do you think this document was created?

8. For whom was this document intended?

9. List three things you learned about life at this time in history by studying this document.

10. Write three new questions that you now have about the subject.

*This worksheet was modified from the original developed by the Education Staff, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408.