Secondary Sources or Research or Both

Laura chose her students' secondary sources rather than letting them find the sources on their own. There are advantages to this.

• I would be familiar with these sources and more able to help students integrate them into study of the primary source.
• In fact, integration would be the focus rather than research.
• I wouldn't have to spend time looking at their sources.

Research is valuable, but is there time to teach both skills? I don't know. I feel like we did good analysis of de Waal, but that I didn't teach synthesis of sources OR research very well. I would do better next time, I think.