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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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… hitting on various points, objects, and figures in the picture. Our attention is drawn to particular parts of the … or actions—which propel the narrative captured in the picture or which convey certain information to the viewer. … images which are all available from The Smithsonian American Art Museum . One member of the pair will examine …
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… They then create works of historical fiction in the form of picture books, drawing upon the information they have … encounters with herds of buffalo along the Trail. Native Americans recounts both friendly and unfriendly meetings … illustrate stories individually. Lesson Extensions Based on pictures and descriptions available through The Oregon Trail …
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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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… 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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… 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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… Questions on Idylls Also, the EDSITEment lesson plan Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes contains many … Shalott ” available via the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets. Lesson Activities Activity 1. Historical …
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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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… 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 …
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… They then create works of historical fiction in the form of picture books or letters, drawing upon the information they … encounters with herds of buffalo along the Trail. Native Americans recounts both friendly and unfriendly meetings … why not? Activity 4. Be a "Pioneer" and tell your story in pictures and letters Have students create picture books or …
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… elements in their work. The placement of objects within the picture plane is not an arbitrary act, but is the result of … perspective or atmospheric perspective . In European and American painting, beginning in the Renaissance period, … of Art , The National Gallery of Art , The Smithsonian American Art Museum , The Art Institute of Chicago , and the …
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… ways in order to convey a sense of harmony in the picture. How do artists go about communicating stability and … and contrast the use of symmetry and balance in the two pictures. Edgar Degas's The Ballet Master Edgar Degas's … , The Museum of Modern Art's Art Safari , The Smithsonian American Art Museum , and The Art Institute of Chicago to …
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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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… to the world. It would remain so until the arrival of the American Admiral Matthew Perry in 1853. With the … the merchant class, made the images extremely popular. The pictures are filled with the backdrop of town life, …
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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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… could not be represented on the stage. Made into a moving picture play it can do us incalculable harm." —James Weldon … of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the African Americans who had been freed from slavery proved highly … The justices reasoned that "the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and …
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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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… 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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… clue is the placement of the Madonna and Child within the picture frame. The two figures are placed at the center of … are very common in the history of painting in Europe and America, and were particularly favored by painters during …
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… THEY GAVE TO THE NATION AND THE WORLD UNDYING PROOF THAT AMERICANS OF AFRICAN DESCENT POSSESS THE PRIDE COURAGE AND … Colonel Shaw riding the horse. Draw an arrow below the picture showing the direction they are moving. Everything … by Edward Zwick HistoryNet.com – Weider History Group America’s Civil War: Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts …
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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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… they filled out in the previous activities, as well as any pictures they might have drawn. You might wish to distribute … as the most far-fetched. Younger students might draw pictures of what they consider the most unusual parts of …
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… downloaded from websites visited during this unit or draw pictures freehand. As a guide for important dates, consult … film an episode there. Hope you've saved all the notes and pictures you've taken as well as the essays you wrote on …
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… again, asking a few questions as you go along. In these pictures, how can you tell who is the teacher and who is the … dark. Perhaps the students would like to make their own pictures of a Greek teacher and themselves! Can they imagine …
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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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… and perverted the principal institutions upon which America was founded: representative democracy, Protestant … American slave narrative dramatized how slavery corrupted America’s greatest institutions and thereby threatened to …
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… his book, and explore the relationship between words and pictures by creating an Alice illustration of their own. For … photographs of Alice Liddell (scroll down to find the pictures of Alice), and other photographs by Carroll . …
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… the Romans invented. You can show your students some pictures of ancient Roman architecture, if it seems … this is an excellent photo collection, of which many pictures will be useful. Look, if you have time, at the Tiber and its bridges, or the pictures of the Cloaca Maxima (the great sewer). The latter, …
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… Carta , the library is certainly not the only place where Americans encounter references to freedom. On radio and … Lesson Plan John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath : Verbal Pictures Lesson Plan Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a …
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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 …