Day 1: Introduction to the Issue and Photo Analysis Practice
Standards
4 – P3.1.1 Identify public issues in the United States
Learning Objective
Students will be able to analyze a photo or document and discuss public issues in Detroit.
Assessment
Students will be assessed by the work completed on their “What I observed/ What I inferred” worksheet.
Instructional Activities
● Ask the students what it means to analyze a photo or document to gather background knowledge.
● Review what a primary source is with the class.
● As a class, they will look at a photo called “VIEW FROM MIDTOWN HOUSE” and analyze the photo as a class.
● After discussing the photo, students will complete a worksheet on what they observed and what they inferred from the photo.
● The class will come together and share what they wrote on their worksheet and how it is different or the same from the other students' thoughts.
● As a class, the teacher will scroll through the History Channel article, “The Detroit Riots, from a Child's Perspective” to further see the physical state Detroit was in after the riots and why rebirth movements started in the first place.
