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Item Analyzing a Photo Worksheet(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerThis worksheet guides students through the process of analyzing historical photos. Students are asked questions about the people, objects, settings, and activities in photos.Item Analyzing a Primary Document Worksheet(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerThis worksheet guides students through the process of analyzing and evaluating primary documents. Students answer questions about the quality of the information and the motivations and point of view of the author/creator.Item Comparing Farm Security Administration Photographers(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerThis curriculum activity has students compare differences among FSA photographers who took photos in Indiana. Students examine differences in subjects, themes, composition, and style.Item Comparing Indiana with Another State(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerThis curriculum activity has students compare FSA photographs taken in Indiana with another state.Item Comparing to Family Photos(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerThis curriculum activity has student compare FSA photographs with a family album or collection of photos taken during the Great Depression.Item Conducting a Photo Contest(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerIn this curriculum activity, students conduct a photo contest of pictures that depict everyday life in Indiana. Students develop guidelines and rules for the contest, publicize the event, and establish how the winning photos will be chosen and the means for awarding prizes.Item Conducting an Interview Worksheet(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerThis worksheet guides students through the process of interviewing a relative or older member of their community about their life experiences during the Great Depression.Item Creating an Exhibit(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerIn this curriculum activity, students create a photo exhibit of the people, places, and events in their community, similar to the ones created by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration.Item Creative Writing(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerStudents try their hand at creative writing by writing a poem, short story, play, film script, or essay about living in Indiana during the Great Depression. Students can examine FSA photographs to better understand what economic and social conditions were like in the 1930s.Item Documentary Photography Today(2012-11-27) Durrant, SummerIn this curriculum activity, students examine and analyze the organization, Facing Change: Documenting America, a nonprofit collective that finances photographic projects on economic and social issues in America.