Reading a Photograph
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Instructions:
- Use the photographs of the State Street
High School Senior Class Excursion, ca. 1929 and a rural school.
Have students discuss and answer the questions below. Students
may also use the worksheet with other historic photograph.
- Have students use personal photographs
to create a photographic essay focusing on a special event in
their lives such as their birth, birth of a sibling, birthday,
first day of school, new home, or new school. Using the photographs,
have students do a oral presentation of the event explaining
why they chose the event and the photographs. Have students explain
the importance of the photographs in creating their essay.
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1. Is the photograph black and white or color?
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2. Do the contents of the photograph
(including objects in the background) tell when or where it may
have been taken? What are they?
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3. What is the approximate date the picture
was made? If so, when? _________________________________________________________________
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4. Make a comparison of the people's
clothes in the photograph to the clothing we wear today.
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5. Write a description of the activity
happening in the photograph. Is it an event or a portrait?
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