Reading+the+Silences

=Reading the Silences: Identify what has been left out or is missing from the document by asking questions of its account. = After reading the document, ask students to think about what they did not hear. Prompt class discussion with questions: What is the document's author not mentioning? Whose voices are we // not // hearing in a particular document or historical account? Which perspectives are missing?

[|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2]  Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
 * Key Ideas and Details**

E. Read historical narratives imaginatively. F. Appreciate historical perspectives.
 * [|Standard 2 : Historical Comprehension] **

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 * This is an example created by Maryam Emami to show an example of how to read what is left out or missing in a source. What is missing in the famous picture of the United States first Transcontinental Railroad, May 10, 1869, joining the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah? **