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    Analyzing a Photo Worksheet
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    This worksheet guides students through the process of analyzing historical photos. Students are asked questions about the people, objects, settings, and activities in photos.
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    Analyzing a Primary Document Worksheet
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    This 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.
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    Comparing Farm Security Administration Photographers
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    This curriculum activity has students compare differences among FSA photographers who took photos in Indiana. Students examine differences in subjects, themes, composition, and style.
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    Comparing Indiana with Another State
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    This curriculum activity has students compare FSA photographs taken in Indiana with another state.
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    Comparing to Family Photos
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    This curriculum activity has student compare FSA photographs with a family album or collection of photos taken during the Great Depression.
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    Conducting a Photo Contest
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    In 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.
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    Conducting an Interview Worksheet
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    This worksheet guides students through the process of interviewing a relative or older member of their community about their life experiences during the Great Depression.
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    Creating an Exhibit
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    In 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.
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    Creative Writing
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    Students 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.
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    Documentary Photography Today
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    In 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.