THROUGH WAR AND REBELLION: CORK 1912-1918
CORK CITY & COUNTY ARCHIVES SAMPLE LESSON PLANS
Number 3 SAMPLE LESSON PLANS 2 nd YEAR Fords of Cork INTERPRETING DIFFERENT SOURCES Year: 1917Reference: CP/RP (p)/14 Author: Cork City Engineer, Cork Corporation Reports (Printed) 1915-1919 (extracts): Date 31 March 1917, Place written: Cork
THE RECORDING SHEET IS NOT NEEDED FOR THIS CLASS.
Distribute a copy of the resource pack including the Quick Quiz to each group (3). Before this class ask the students to find out if any of their family worked in Fords or the nearby Dunlops tyre factory. Briefly discuss their stories emphasising that Fords was the first big industrial factory in Cork. Learning Objective: Students should be able to work with different sources. This quick quiz is designed to enhance numeracy and attention to detail about what each source can tell us. Also allows revision of Primary documents. Introduction: Revision Types of documents • Photos, Maps, film, books, minutes, wills, letters, paintings menu cards. What can each tell us? Define an archive: • An archive is a place which stores public documents which need to be kept safe. • These can come from governments, hospitals, city and county councils or from personal and family papers. Cork City and County Archives stores the records of Cork City and County Councils and a host of other documents from 1100 up to the present day. Class discussion: This document is written at the point where Cork starts to move from a rural society to and industrial one. Based on their work about the industrial revolution ask how the students will expect Ireland to change Instructions • Read through the background and the description of the document in the resource pack. • Ask the students to read through the document paying particular attention to the map • Ask the students to answer the quick quiz Conclusion: Every document or artefact from the past can tell us something about how people lived. A key skill is how to understand what the document can tell about the society.
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