Be A Picture Detective!

1. Be A Picture Detective!

2. What do Picture Detectives do? • Scan the picture for important details • Identify the problem in the picture • Guess the message of the picture • Hear what the voices in the picture would say • Talk or write about your observations of the picture

3. Scan for details. What do you see in this picture? Record your careful observations on your sheet.

4. Hear what the voices in the picture would say. • In the bubbles, write what you think they would say or think.

5. Look closely at what's written on the column and the immigrant's baggage. Does this help give a fuller picture of what's going on and how some Americans felt about immigrants at the time this cartoon was drawn?

6. Name ________________ • Observation Sheet: Picture • Scan for details. Write a list of the important details you see. • _____________________________________________________________________________________ • _____________________________________________________________________________________ • _____________________________________________________________________________________ • Identify the problem. What problem do you see? Write about it here. • _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Guess the message. Why do you think this picture was made? What was the person who made it trying to say? • _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Hear what the voices would say. If the people in the picture could speak, what do you think they would say? • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Talk or write about your observations. Make sure you are ready to talk about this picture.

7. Scan for details. What do you see in this picture? Record your careful observations on your sheet.

8. Hear what the voices in the picture would say. In the bubbles, write what you think they would say or think.

9. Do reading the thought bubbles and border title help explain what’s going on here?

10. What about now?

11. Name ________________ Observation Sheet: Picture Scan for details. Write a list of the important details you see. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Identify the problem. What problem do you see? Write about it here. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Guess the message. Why do you think this picture was made? What was the person who made it trying to say? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Hear what the voices would say. If the people in the picture could speak, what do you think they would say? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Talk or write about your observations. Make sure you are ready to talk about this picture.