The Past Helps Us Understand the Present

Looking at Pictures

Today we are going to look at some images by using the strategy Jot Thoughts.

Jot Thoughts - ObservationsEvery table has this picture.Using one sticky note for each thought, write your observations of the picture and put them on your center mat.(Think THE WHITE HAT)

You have 2 minutes.

Jot ThoughtsTogether with your table group, sort your observation sticky notes into categories, piling the duplicates on top of each other.

Let’s share our observations.

Jot Thoughts - QuestionsNow let’s think about questions we may have about the picture. Using one pink sticky note for each question, write some questions you have about the picture.

You have 2 minutes.

Jot ThoughtsTogether with your table group, sort your question sticky notes into categories, piling the duplicates on top of each other.

Let’s share our questions.

Round Robin - ReflectionsWith your table group, share out how this picture from the past helps us understand the present. Think about connections.

We’ll spin the spinner to see who will start.

What are Primary Sources

This image is calledClassroom scene in Washington, D.C. elementary

school - children working with blocks and at blackboard in mathematics class

Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b19220 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b19220

This image is considered a Primary Source. Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time.

Primary sources help us understand the past by looking at images of it.

Another Look at Primary Sources• Each table is going to get their own

primary source. • Your job is to go through the process of –Observing (JOT THOUGHTS - alone

then as a group)–Questioning (JOT THOUGHTS - alone

then as a group)–Reflecting (ROUND ROBIN – as a

group)• Be Ready to share your image and your

O, Q, R

Group 1

Virginia / discovered and discribed by Captayn John Smith, 1606 ; graven by William Hole.http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3880+ct000377%29%29

Group 2

The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America.http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(bdsdcc+02101))

Group 3

Benjamin Franklin reading draft of Declaration of Independence, John Adams seated, and Thomas Jefferson standing and holding feather pen and paper, around tablehttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b42331

Group 4

The Bill of Rightshttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a04470

Group 5

The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinethttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02502

Group 6

Rosa Parks’s Arrest Recordhttp://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html

Group 7

Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/suffrg:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28cph+3g05585%29%29:displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3g05585

Group 8

Jamestown Charterhttp://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj8/062/0000/0004.jpg