About This Lesson
Students examine primary source documents in order to reconstruct the immigration story of the Confino family, who lived on the Lower East Side between 1913 and 1916. Through this investigation, students learn how primary source documents can help us understand people, places, and events from the past.
Students will:
- Understand that primary source documents can help us understand people, places, and events from the past.
- Think critically about historic records.
- Make inferences based on information introduced by a primary source.
- Learn how to compile research in order to get a more complete understanding of the past.
