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STUDENTS AS HISTORIANS
Exercises for the Elementary and Middle School Student

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Overview | Exercise | Facilitator Framework

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Photograph Analysis Guide

Objective Observation Subjective Observation Knowledge Deduction
Describe what you see in the photograph, e.g.; the forms and structures, the arrangement of the various elements. Avoid personal feelings or interpretations. Your description should help someone who has not seen the image to visualize it. Describe your personal feelings, associations, and judgments about the image. Always anchor your subjective response in something that is seen. For example, "I see…, and it makes me think of…" Prior knowledge based on experience, study, assumptions, and intuitions.

What you conclude.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
What questions does this photograph raise? What else do you need to know?

 

 

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