Prairie Prose: Lesley 6008

Grade: 4/5

Baseball game at Manzanar

Subject: Information Literacy /Research /Social Studies

Choose one of the pictures for this project.

This moment in time has been captured in a picture. Now capture it with your words.You are a spectator at an historical event. Write a blog entry capturing this moment in time. Include the details of who, where, when, etc; but go beyond this and tell about the emotions of the event, the reactions of the people present. In addition, write three comments to your blog, at least one as a participant in the event. In the case of some photos you may use a fake name.

You need to research facts related to the event and other events going on in the United States and the world that would effect this event. Interview spectators or participants in the event and get their reactions and comments. Here are just a few of the questions to get you started.

Crowd awaiting Titanic survivors.

Homecoming, Calument Co. boys
Chilton, Wisconsin, Sept 20, 1919

Baseball game: Why is the location important?

Parade: How did the U.S. do at these Olympics? Where were the games? How did they travel to the games?

Homecoming: Coming from where?

Titanic: Survivors? Lost? Heroes?

U.S. athletes: Who were some of the participants? What were some expectations for the games?

Parade for Olympians in
New York 1912

Critical Thinking: Students need to look and think beyond the facts and put themselves in the shoes of the spectators and participants at the event.

U.S Olympic athletes coming on the
field in Stockholm, 1912

Using Photoshop Elements I resized all the photos to 72 dpi (originals were 800 dpi) then cropped most of them to 4" x 6". This created a more manageable size for loading in a blog. In a couple I focused the attention to the participants of the event. In Homecoming I selected one section of a large panoramic photo. All photos were taken from the Library of Congress photostream on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163080055/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2968834791/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3006359682/sizes/l/in/set-72157608675448396/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2332832827/sizes/o/in/set-72157623212811048/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3971750310/sizes/o/in/set-72157622493565296/