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What Portraits Reveal

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High schoolers examine how portraits can tell us more about people of the past than just what they looked like. They compare three portraits of U.S. Presidents, analyze portraits of Americans from the Revolutionary War, and write a report on family portraits.

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9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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