Understanding+Setting+through+Photographs

Before we begin reading //To Kill a Mockingbird//, I'd like you to understand the role of setting -- when and where the book takes place. You are going to be using the American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress for your research.

For each of the photographs that you analyze, you will receive a letter grade for classwork. You will be evaluated on how well you use technology, your bibliographic entry, the thoughtfulness of the answers to your questions and your journal entries for each.

The following directions come from the //To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective.//


 * 1) View photographs from [|America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945] in American Memory.

>> Alabama--Dallas County—Selma >> Alabama--Eutaw >> Alabama—Greensboro
 * When you get to this page, go to the home page for black and white photographs.
 * Next select Search keywords for Black-and-White Photos. Search photographs from these three locations. To do so, cut and paste the entries into the search box.
 * After browsing through these images, select one photo for careful analysis. Use the Visual Literacy Guide for your analysis. For Word, [|Visual_Literacy_Photo.doc]. For Pages, [|Visual_Literacy_Photo.pages]. If you don't have either, then use [|Visual_Literacy_Photo.pdf].

2. Next, view photographs of signs that showed racial discrimination.
 * . [| Click here to view the photographs.] Be sure to read the introduction to this collection.
 *  Select one and use a new Visual Literacy Guide for your analysis.
 * Print out a new Visual Literacy Guide for this as well as the photograph.
 * Complete the Visual Literacy Guide for your photograph and staple the photograph to the Visual Literacy Guide.

