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CIVICS Unit 1
Enduring Understanding: Citizens make contributions that help people live and work together as a community.
Essential Question: Is America a place where people from different origins can come together and share the same ideas? Grade 2: Unit I- Civics
Explore: Provide each group with a short description of the person’s contributions to our country from picture book biographies, summaries from the LOC.gov using the URL under the person’s picture, or a description that the teacher writes.
Connect: Decide which contributions are most significant and, when the appointed research time is done, share with the group as a whole.
Learn: Look into other famous people who have made significant contributions. Browse for similar materials through LOC.gov in the American Treasures Exhibition or through America’s Library.
Library of Congress Resources Used:
Stuart, Gilbert (1929). George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Library of Congress: America’s Library.
United Press International telephoto (1965 Oct 11). Rev. Martin Luther King, head- and-shoulders portrait, facing right, speaking at a rally in Crawfordville, Georgia. Library of Congress: America’s Library.
Taylor, S.A. (1880-1906). Susan B. Anthony. Library of Congress: American Memory, By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850- 1920.
Gardner, Alexander (April 10, 1865). Abraham Lincoln, half-length, seated. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
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Introductory Activity:
If students have already studied these people, then just brainstorm as a class what they remember. If these people have not already been studied, then break students up into groups assigning each a person whose picture is on the poster. Provide each group with a short description of the person’s contributions to our country. This may be in the form of picture book biographies, summaries from the LOC website using the URL under the person’s picture, or a description that the teacher writes. The group decides which contributions are most significant and, when the appointed research time is done, shares with the group as a whole.
Extension Ideas: (based on primary sources)
1. Group - discussion activity: Create a grid with each of the three American’s names down the side and the following the attributes across the top: respect, hard work, patriotic. Talk about how each of these people embodied each of these attributes in some way and include a student comment or something the person did in each box in the grid. The attributes may be changed.
2. Writing/Drawing activity: Students write a letter to one of the Americans on the poster thanking them for helping to make America a place where Americans of different origins and cultures can live together. They may use the grid for help. Students should include at least two of the attributes on the grid and, if they are able, provide examples.For an extra challenge, students may choose to describe some of the strides and set backs since the life time of these people.
3. Action - movement activity: Students design a compact disc cover for a new music label called “Equality!” They may use various art supplies for their design and will present their CD covers within small groups at the end of class.
Primary Source Learning Links:
Links to the pictures: George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.
Rev. Martin Luther King, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, speaking at a rally in Crawfordville, Georgia.
Susan B. Anthony.
Abraham Lincoln, half-length, seated.
Library of Congress Resource Used:
U.S. Presidents George Washington
George Washington, the Father of Our Country Credit: Stuart, Gilbert, artist. "George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left." 1929., Athenaeum portrait by Gilbert Stuart, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/wash/aa_wash_subj_e.html
Library of Congress Resource Used:
Activists & Reformers Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Credit: "[Rev. Martin Luther King, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, speaking at a rally in Crawfordville, Georgia]." United Press International telephoto,1965 Oct 11. Prints and Photographs Divison of the Library of Congress. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/king/aa_king_subj_e.html
Library of Congress Resource Used:
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By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
[Susan B. Anthony, full-length portrait, seated, facing left]. Taylor, S. A., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [between 1880 and 1906] SUBJECTS Anthony, Susan B.--(Susan Brownell),--1820-1906. Portrait photographs--1880-1910. Photographic prints--1880-1910. MEDIUM 1 photographic print. CALL NUMBER Item in BIOG FILE - Anthony, Susan Brownell
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TITLE: [Abraham Lincoln, half-length, seated] CALL NUMBER: PRES FILE - - Lincoln, Abraham--Portraits--Meserve Collection-- No. 98 [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-8813 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1865 April 10] RELATED NAMES: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer. NOTES: Meserve #98; Ostendorf #117. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card and from item. Published in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve and Carl Sandburg. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944, pl. 98. SUBJECTS: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. FORMAT: Portrait photographs 1860-1870. Photographic prints 1900. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a11367 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a11367 CARD #: 2004670392