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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that historic photographs and artwork reveal differences in attire, lifestyle, and socio-economic status. Students will use primary resources to analyze these differences and learn about activities of past generations. Students will also practice their reading skills.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
In preparation, print out all of the attached images and their descriptions. Cut the descriptions off of the print and glue them onto a separate piece of construction paper. (Depending on the reading level of your students, you may need to paraphrase these descriptions using vocabulary your students can read and comprehend.) Glue the pictures onto separate sheets of construction paper as well.
Step 2.
Look in current magazines and find pictures of modern-day farmers, police officers, teachers, nurses, laborers, and/or doctors. Show them to the class.
Step 3.
Ask the children to tell you what these modern people do for jobs. How can they tell? Have them describe what they see in these images.
Step 4.
Tell the class they are going to consider images of Americans of long ago. They have to read the written descriptions and try to match them with the correct images, following the usual rules for "Concentration" matching games. ( You may need to review these rules if you haven't played Concentration with your class yet this year.)
Step 5.
Separate the class into pairs/triplets. Give each group a set of the "Concentration" cards.
Step 6.
As the children set up and begin to play, circulate around the room and make sure all children are participating. Engage the small groups in informal discussions about the primary source images as they come up.
Step 7.
After the small groups have played concentration for about 20-25 minutes, bring the class back together and discuss observations from the images. Take notes or just verbally repeat what they say.
Step 8.
Some specific questions to bring up might be: Which images do you think show wealthier /poorer people? How can you tell? Why are women only wearing skirts/dresses? How are African Americans portrayed? Are men and women doing the same activities? Is the picture a drawing, painting, or photograph? When was this picture made or taken?
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