Our poetry exercise from the last post intrigued our MS Social Studies teacher. So she brought her class down today and we responded to Grant Wood's Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. I used the opportunity as an exercise in evaluating an image as a skeptical viewer. We listed observations about the image that established season, landmarks (we brought up Google Earth to look for the cliffs and bodies of water pictured), time of day, and urgency, but we also noticed it's spotlessness and ideal quality which led us to questions about its accuracy, purpose, and authority. We were explicit in relating this type of observation and reasoning to ALL materials that they encounter in print and digitally.
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