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… Arts yes Photo caption "Basket of Clams" by Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). Wikimedia Commons Impressionism, … in conjunction with the EDSITEment lesson plans What’s in a Picture? An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts and …
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… related tales are told in cultures all over the globe. In America as well, the classic tale, re-envisioned in print … . Ask students if they can identify the story from the picture. Most will know immediately. How is it that …
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… Photo caption Robert Frost, 1941. Wikimedia Commons One of America's most beloved and widely read poets, Robert Frost … Aloud To enhance the poem visually, first show students pictures of the actual stone wall about which Frost writes …
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… it. Thinking about the Text Kurt Vonnegut’s story paints a picture of a society that few of us would gladly embrace, … well as Vonnegut’s purpose. The Society Describe Vonnegut’s America. Are there positive aspects of this society? What is …
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… artwork, and films—at EDSITEment-approved sites American Memory and Picturing Modern America, 1880-1920 , where you will also …
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… host of memorable historical figures and uncover a sense of America's past through archival materials. Preparation … have been set? What exceptions have occurred? Share the picture of the first Capitol inauguration , accessible …
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… world, and through tomb paintings. Hieroglyphs consist of pictures of familiar objects that represent sounds. They …
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… can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times. … heading, then click "WPA Photoessays" to find a series of pictures recording a day in the life of " Lucille Normand, …
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… about the past. Preparation Gather together seven or eight pictures of animals/insects/birds from picture books or … about how animals can be used as symbols. Show them the pictures of the animals, birds, and insects you have …
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… of ancient rituals form the basis of our contemporary American festival. Halloween has traditionally been … including some similar practices, from decorating with pictures of skeletons, to ghoulishly shaped sweets, like the …
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… with his mother and father in 1852." Activity 2. Review pictures on reenactment of the trek West As a follow up to … website, in the " California as I Saw It " collection at American Memory , and at the California Gold Rush website. …
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… of Langston Hughes. Library of Congress When the Academy of American Poets , an EDSITEment-reviewed website, asked the … the U.S. Postal Service did just that, issuing the stamp pictured in the left-hand corner above. Poets achieve this … we see and hear and touch and smell around us--the sensual "pictures" that remain in our memories--are for poets and …
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… Dance: Ceremonial Gratitude National Museum of the American Indian's page on the Butterfly Dance costume " The … symbols that are related to those celebrations. A classic picture book you may want to use to illustrate this idea is …
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… Basics yes Photo caption Woodrow Wilson. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … Memory . Guiding Discussion Questions: Why is Wilson pictured at the center of the card? Look at the text …
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… as a monument not only to its builders but also to the American people and their government." — The Architect of … the student groups in Activity 2. Make sure to include the picture captions and questions with the assignment. … window of Library of Congress . For further information: America's Story , available via a link from American Memory …
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… first period of sustained contact between Europeans and the Americas and its people. They may not know, however, why … or of diseases could be represented through text and/or pictures organized in the form of a chart with four columns: …
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… about the effects of slavery and Reconstruction on African Americans, and evaluate primary source documents. … websites provide relevant information: Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery (by PBS) Documenting the …
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… World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt listed four American freedoms in his State of the Union address to … on Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting in the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book for further …
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… very soft and pliable, like leather. In wax crayon, draw a picture on the bag in heavy strokes. Take a block of clear … some of these grottes . (As you say each word, show a picture of each to make the vocabulary associations.) … in caves, called troglodytes , would paint, draw, or carve pictures or figures into their walls. Encourage students to …
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… in "old things." In this lesson, students first examine pictures of household objects from the late 20th century and … Illinois was a French frontier territory. 1800–1850 , when American settlers moved into the region. 1850–1890 , when …
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… cave spaces listed below. Match the names of each of these pictures to the place where that picture is found: the …
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… A Raisin in the Sun: Whose "American Dream"? yes Photo caption Photo of a scene from the … and the thunderous crash of a reality that African Americans faced when attempting to do so. A critical …
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… world, and through tomb paintings. Hieroglyphs consist of pictures of familiar objects that represent sounds. They … For this reason, pharaohs and nobles had plenty of pictures (and figures) of servants to wait on them for all …
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… to raise money to support the British army stationed in America after 1763 by requiring Americans to buy stamps for newspapers, legal documents, …
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… Not “Indians,” Many Tribes: Native American Diversity yes Photo caption Abenaki Couple, an … practices. An introduction to this incident may be found in America's Library of the Library of Congress , a link from … These essays contain a lot of text, but they feature many pictures as well. America's Library Digital Classroom …
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… the beliefs and methods of each man by studying his role in American diplomatic history and his statements. Preparation … specified, are from the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory . Students can read the full text of each by …
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… times in history and encourage students to describe the pictures and note what makes the creatures in them seem … by writing in a journal. Have younger children to draw pictures of unicorns and then dictate sentences about them …
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… argument about the “omnipotent” power of the majority in America and its consequences. After an initial statement … lesson is one part of a three lesson unit on Democracy in America . The three lessons may be taught in sequence, or …
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… After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North yes … on this episode. First, brainstorm as a class about what pictures an author could "paint" to make the scene come to …
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… one of the most important ways of categorizing European and American paintings from the 16th through the 20th centuries. … arts available from the EDSITEment lesson plans What’s in a Picture? An Introduction to the Subject in the Visual Arts …