3 guys interpreting a political cartoon
Answering questions about a map of colonial America from the Guilder Lehrman Institute in New York.
The gallery ran around my room and circled the hall. Some classes got to use the library.
According to Thomas Clarkson's essay in 1785, male slaves were allowed 6' by 1'4" and women 5' by 1'4" for their month long voyage from Africa to America.Students were asked to measure out the space given to each gender for the voyage for visual effect.
Here, 2 girls calculate space they'd be given on the ship.
Mrs. Bridges helping out.
These girls read a journal entry from one of the original residents of Jamestown. Not a nice place to live!
Critical thinking questions are fun!
These guys identify territories as marked on an old government map.
These 2 are interpreting song lyrics and determining who would have written them.
These guys are reading the lyrics to A Man's A Man For That and then will answer a question about social classes in the colonies
All the way down the hall!
Cooperative learning in action.
2 ladies discussing New England's whaling culture.
I wouldn't fit on a slave ship.
We had music and songs to interpret. Which social class created these dances and lyrics? How do you know?
Cornelia comes up with the answer... Bacon's Rebellion.
Interpreting nautical flags used by New England sailors and whalers.
Identifying a Southern tobacco plantation
This guy knows his Quakers. He's using the chart on the right to identify items from Quaker culture.