Topic: Jefferson's Personal Life & Family
Lesson Plan
Jefferson’s Gardens: A Landscape of Opportunities: Section 1 – A Perpetuating Flower Garden
Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of the breadth and depth of the planning involved in the gardens at Monticello and the continual care to assure that plants are...Lesson Plan
Jefferson’s Gardens: A Landscape of Opportunities: Section 3 – Creating Personal Space for Self-Reflection
Students will understand Jefferson's use of landscape to create both beauty and privacy; the architectural features of his homes at Monticello and summer retreat, Poplar Forest, for solitude, and evidence of...
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Jefferson’s Hand Telescope
A Jefferson family story relates that Jefferson used this telescope to see British soldiers swarming in the streets of Charlottesville in 1781.
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Jefferson’s Map of Charlottesville and Milton
Jefferson's survey map showing the Monticello plantation and its relation of the towns of Charlottesville and Milton. Image courtesy Special Collections, University of Virginia Library....
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Jefferson’s notes on the weather at Monticello, July 1814
Weather Memorandum Book, 18 July 1814, Philadelphia. Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts. Massachusetts Historical Society....
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Jefferson’s notes on the weather in Philadelphia, July 1776
Weather Memorandum Book, 1 July 1776, Philadelphia. Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts. Massachusetts Historical Society....
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Jefferson’s Theodolite
Jefferson used this instrument to create survey maps of Monticello and to measure the world around him.Lesson Plan
Journal Writing
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the various journals that were kept by Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Jefferson.
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Letter from Anne Cary Randolph to Thomas Jefferson
Image courtesy, Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill, MSS 1397, Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library....
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