Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a Thousand Words

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Arts and Humanities

Related Academic Standards

9.2.5.A 9.2.5.A

Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts.

9.2.8.A 9.2.8.A

Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts.

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Big Ideas

Artists use tools and resources as well as their own experiences and skills to create art.

Humans have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures.

People have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures.
Concepts

Artists produce work that is influenced by their experiences, emotions, ideas and cultures.

Dance is a product of the time, culture, social climate and place in which it is created.

People of different cultures use movement to convey meaning.

Theatre artists preserve theatre practices by recreating plays and staging styles from other times and cultures.
Competencies

Create works of art that reflect their experiences, emotions, ideas and/or culture.

Identify the influence of historical, cultural, socialand geographical contexts on different types of dance, including dances native to Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region.

Identify the purpose ofcultural dance and decode the meaning of movement in various cultural dances.

Perform scenes from diverse plays using staging practices from the play’s time and/or culture, e.g. Shakespearean theatre, Greek theatre, melodrama.

Description

Throughout the Great Depression, the federal government employed photographers to document the need for New Deal programs and the extent of these programs' successes. Today, through the Internet, students can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times.

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Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a Thousand Words

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Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a Thousand Words