MassachusettsHISTORY EXPLORERS GRADES 3–8
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evidence
Information from a source that helps us test a claim.
source
A document, object, image, or account we can examine.
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Juli Vanderhoop

Contemporary community leader

Portrait of Juli Vanderhoop
Juli Vanderhoop Image source & credit ↗
Massachusetts connection

Aquinnah / Noepe

Vanderhoop has served on Aquinnah’s select board and community preservation committee. Her work shows one way an island resident can help care for a town’s shared places. Town offices are separate from tribal offices, even when citizens participate in both communities.

You can use your device’s reading tools or read with a partner.

Find a detail. Build an idea.

  1. What did this person or group do? Point to a detail in the reading.
  2. How did this person care for a community, its rights, or its knowledge?
  3. What would you like to find out next? Which kind of source could help?

“Juli Vanderhoop mattered because ___. A detail that supports my idea is ___.”

Follow the evidence.

This short reading is an original classroom summary. Open the source with your teacher to check details and learn more.

Read the source: marthasvineyardcf.org ↗

Ask: Who made this source? What can it tell us? What might it leave out?

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