Picturing+America

** “Picturing America”: Winning Visual Literacy in Your Library **
=== Winning Picturing America grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities brought twenty gorgeous posters of American Art, along with a comprehensive Teacher’s Guide, into our libraries. Then what?! Both librarians (and cooperating teachers) taught American history, art, culture, children’s literature, and visual literacy to their students, using the iconic posters as inspiration. This workshop will give participants collaborative lesson plans and hands-on activities gleaned from their school experiences and from their attendance at an exclusive summer workshop sponsored by the NEH. === === // Mary Ann Karre (karrem@ binghamtonschools.org) and Lonna Pierce // (//lonnastory@yahoo.com) were two of thirty teachers nationwide chosen to receive a $500 stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend the Picturing America 4-day workshop at the Newark Museum last summer. They hobnobbed with art and history professors and explored activities with Newark Museum educators so they could share their findings with you today!// ===

=** For links to websites that were discussed and electronic versions of the handouts, go to[| http://guest.portaportal.com/picturingamerica] **=

View images, lessons, resource book, additional resources __[|http://picturingamerica.neh.gov]__ **We the People, “The Picturing America” Bookshelf.** The literary complement of NEH’s __[|Picturing America]__  SM   visual arts project, this grant was awarded in April 2009. __[]__ **National Endowment for the Humanities –** Lesson plans and resources __[]__ __[]__  **Library of Congress – American Memory Collection.** Search or browse collection by topic. __http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html __  **Picturing America 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States** Over 1,000 original prints, drawings and maps __[]__ <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> **Picturing Modern America 1880-1920: Historical Thinking Exercises for Middle and High School Students** __[]__ <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> **A Photo Essay on the Great Depression** __[]__ <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> **Visual Thinking Skills:** <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">**Online Visual Literacy Project-** Basic Visual Elements explained and illustrated <span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);">__[]__ <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> **Visual Understanding in Education** __[]__ <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> **Visual Literacy K-8** __[]__ <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> **Picture This: Visual Literacy Activities** __[]__ <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">
 * Pi**<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">**c****turing America website**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Video of students using Picturing America posters to study art, history and social issues. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Picturing America in the Library Classroom**__
__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**SLMS, Lonna Pierce & Mary Ann Karre, Binghamton City School District** __


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**#** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Pix America Poster** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Children’s Book Tie-ins** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Ideas/Connections** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**2a, 2b, 3a** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Midnight Ride of Paul Revere; Paul Revere; Silver Teapots** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Christopher Bing’s** **Midnight Ride of Paul** **Revere** __**(Longfellow)**__ || “<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**-America” song-Wee Sing**
 * -Poetry recitation**
 * -American Revolution**
 * - What do you see? (I spy…)** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**13A 13B 14B**
 * 15B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Tiffany Autumn Landscape; Brooklyn Bridge photo & Joseph Stella; Chrysler Building** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Barracca’s** **Taxi Dog**__**, Stock”s**__ **Porc in NY**__**, Selden’s**__ **Cricket in Times Square**__**, Konigsburg”s**__ **Mixed-Up Files…**__**, Weitzman’s**__ **You Can’t Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum**__**, Prince’s**__ **Twenty- One Elephants and Still Standing**__**, Curlee’s**__ **Brooklyn Bridge** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Suggest students take a trip to NYC and do 3 things:**
 * -Walk across bridge**
 * -Visit Metropolitan Museum of Art**
 * -See Chrysler Bldg.**
 * -How are these “Brooklyn Bridge” pieces alike? Different?** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**16B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Fallingwater** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Balliett’s** **The Wright 3**__**,**__ **The Calder Game** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Use biographies of Frank Lloyd Wright & other American artists. Architect Studio website: http://architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/index.html** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**17A**
 * 17B**
 * 19B**
 * 20B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Selma to Montgomery; Ladder to Booker T; Migration Series; The Dove** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Curtis’** **The Watsons Go to Birmingham**__**, McKissack’s**__ **Goin’ Someplace Special, Johnson’s A Sweet Smell of Roses** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Art teacher assigns ladders made of found objects representing something to the student**
 * Destination Modern Art website: http://www.moma.org/interactives/destination/**
 * -Describe the posture of the marchers.** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**18A** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**The Sources of Country Music** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Hurd’s** **Mama Don’t Allow;** __**Wilder’s**__ **Little Town on the Prairie** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**-Borrow music teacher’s small instruments.**
 * -Have a hoedown.**
 * -Can you find 5 different instruments?** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**9B**
 * 10A**
 * 10B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Quilts; Abraham Lincoln; Robert Shaw Memorial** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Lewin’s** **Redlegs,** __**Polacco’s**__ **Pink & Say,** __**Walker’s**__ **Secrets of a Civil War Submarine** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**-Biographies of Joshua Chamberlain, Clara Barton,** **This From George** __**(Letters from local soldier)**
 * -Math and art using quilts**
 * - What famous new president also represented Illinois?**__ ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**1A**
 * 5B**
 * 6B**
 * 8B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Pottery & Baskets; Last of the Mohicans; Catlin’s Mandan portrait; Lakota Ledger Book** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Erdich’s** **Birchbark House**__**, Bruchac’s**__ **Winter People, Crazy Horse’s Vision, Code Talkers, Many Nations**__**; Goble’s**__ **Iktomi & the Ducks, Gift of the Sacred Dog** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**-A Boy Called Slow** __**Crazy Horse biography**
 * -Cooperstown has the actual artifacts of 1A and 8B at the Fennimore House Museum!**
 * -Mesa Verde (The 6 pictured pots are about 1100 years old!) and Anasazi cliff dwellers**
 * -Which of these 3 works about Native Americans is most authentic: Catlin’s, Wyeth’s, or Black Hawk’s?**__ ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**16A** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**House by the Railroad** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Burton’s** **The Little House,** __**Seuss’**__ **The Lorax** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**-Edward Hopper**
 * -Use postcards of local homes of history**
 * -Take tours of local architecture**
 * -Urbanization**
 * -If you lived by the railroad, what would you see/hear/smell?** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**4B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Benjamin Franklin** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Lawson’s** **Ben and Me,** __**Smith’s**__ **John, Paul, George & Ben,** __**Fritz’s**__ **What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**-Philadelphia field trip**
 * -BrainPop**
 * -Franklin’s Words website: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/franklin-home.html**
 * -How is a sculpture different from a painting?** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**18B** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Migrant Mother** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Hesse’s** **Out of the Dust,** __**Curtis’**__ **Bud, Not Buddy,** __**Partridge’s**__ **Restless Spirit** || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**A Photo Essay of the Great Depression:** **http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/depression/photo** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255); font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**essay.htm**__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">
 * -Compare female American artists Georgia O’Keefe and Dorothea Lange** ||