Pictures from America From the Great Depression to World War II in American Memory
provide visual images to introduce and spark curiosity about Jacob Have I Loved by
Katherine Paterson, a novel about jealousy set on an island in the
Chesapeake Bay in the early 1940s.
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Procedure
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Choose photographs from America From the Great Depression to World War II, 1935-1945
and cut each into several pieces. Have enough pieces for each student.
- Give each student a piece of a picture and tell them to find the other pieces of their photograph.
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Students find group members who share portions of their photograph.
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When the photo is complete, students exchange it for a whole
one and examine it using the photo
analysis guide.
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Groups present their photos and their observations.
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Each student receives a copy of the slide
collection.
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Evaluation and Extension
- Students follow this activity with reading and discussion of Jacob Have
I Loved (New York: Crowell, 1980).
- Students see movie of Jacob Have I Loved (Wonderworks. 1989. 57 minutes)
and compare the l980s movie and its costumes with the black and white pictures from the 1930s in the collection.
- Students visit the Lore
Oyster House at the Calvert
Marine Museum in southern Maryland to see a shucking hall and tonging
rakes as well as other oystering equipment and boats.
- Students and their teachers take pictures on their southern Maryland
trip which illustrate the ways that area is similar and different today.
- Students look again at the slide collection
and their own pictures and reflect, in writing, on the similarities and the differences.
- Students reading this book in the context of an interdisciplinary study
of the Chesapeake Bay may be interested in following these
links to further research.
- Students work with photographs from American Memory in a similar fashion
for another book, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor.
Link to Dorothea Lange Pictures.
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