johnsonmaryj
@johnsonmaryj.bsky.social
Manager of the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Teachers Network for a Library of Congress grant since 2012 and a retired high school teacher & middle school librarian. Travel, art, languages, & reading fill my time, too.
Here's the political cartoon. www.loc.gov/item/2012647...
![School Begins. Print shows Uncle Sam as a teacher, standing behind a desk in front of his new students who are labeled "Cuba, Porto [i.e. Puerto] Rico, Hawaii, [and] Philippines"; they do not look happy to be there. At the rear of the classroom are students holding books labeled "California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, [and] Alaska". At the far left, an African American boy cleans the windows, and in the background, a Native boy sits by himself, reading an upside-down book labeled "ABC", and a Chinese boy stands just outside the door. A book on Uncle Sam's desk is titled "U.S. First Lessons in Self-Government". https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647459/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5vngz3t4wq53jpwlarjgqwvn/bafkreicgpud3fgzvxs5lubbaowadbukya3kmmzjbqhiysjeiq7m3ijgala@jpeg)
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Here's the political cartoon. www.loc.gov/item/2012647...
I wonder how this idea might be adapted to primary sources, perhaps by adding a primary source to each year a student writes about.
August 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I wonder how this idea might be adapted to primary sources, perhaps by adding a primary source to each year a student writes about.
When I posted this image on July 4th, I had no idea it would be the very date a disastrous flood would begin in the Texas Hill Country in 2025.
July 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
When I posted this image on July 4th, I had no idea it would be the very date a disastrous flood would begin in the Texas Hill Country in 2025.
Diana's advice is so practical! My favorite sentence? "As someone who worked through a massive district budget mismanagement, (so bad they stopped buying paper in January), I can tell you there is nothing more important than you doing your job in the most mundane and officious way."
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Diana's advice is so practical! My favorite sentence? "As someone who worked through a massive district budget mismanagement, (so bad they stopped buying paper in January), I can tell you there is nothing more important than you doing your job in the most mundane and officious way."
I have been recommending this book to many friends. After all, how often are librarians the heroes in history? Well, often enough, but not always recognized.
June 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I have been recommending this book to many friends. After all, how often are librarians the heroes in history? Well, often enough, but not always recognized.