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Selma in Pictures: Socratic Seminar

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Photographs from the freedom movement in Selma, Alabama serve as the basis of two Socratic Seminars. Class members prepare for the seminars by closely observing the images, form a hypothesis, and use evidence from photo to support a claim about its significance.

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Concepts

socratic discussion, social justice, the voting rights act, voting rights, discrimination, racism, image analysis, primary source analysis, primary source images, making observations, inferences, the civil rights movement, civil rights, visual literacy, critical thinking

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

Select another image from the time period and model how to read a visual text using the questions provided or invite a member of the art department to do the modeling
Serve as the moderator for the first seminar, modeling the approach, and then have a class member lead the second seminar

Classroom Considerations

Requires extra prep time to prepare multiple, full-size copies of the photographs used in the activity
Class members should be familiar with the socratic seminar format

Pros

The packet includes five photographs, guided questions, and a detailed plan

Cons

None

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