Distribute copies of the appropriate documents to each pair of students. Encourage students to use the questions on the activity sheet, #5 Reading Around a Document, as a pre-reading guide for each document. Ask younger students to answer the questions orally. With older students, ask each pair to provide a written copy of this activity sheet for each text document analyzed.
Distribute sufficient copies of the activity sheet, #7 Identifying Evidence about Causes, so each pair of students has one copy for each document it is assigned to analyze. After students have identified evidence for an assigned document, ask them to rate the importance of each cause using the scale on the activity sheet.