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Guiding Questions

• What do you notice about the image as your look from right to left?
• What feeling does the artist want you to feel about the right side compared to the left?

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Guiding Questions

• Study the image, moving in a clockwise circle. What do you see?
• What elements of society, technology, or economics do you see present? What are they represented by?

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Guiding Questions

• Where is this figure located on the canvas?
• What direction is she looking? Why?

• What does this image say about how Americans viewed themselves and their actions?

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Guiding Questions

• How does society look different in this corner of the portrait compared the top Right corner?
• What does this say about America's economic goals and society at this time?

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• How is the image changing as we contine to move to the left side of the canvas?
• What elements of society, politics, and economics do we see in this image?

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Guiding Questions

• Who do we see in this portion of the image? What are they doing?
• How does this section of the painting make you feel?
• Do you think our perception of this side of the image is similar or different to when this painting was created in the 1870s?

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• Each station has an assigned number, box of markers, and folded poster paper.
• Travel to each station and analyze the painting using the corresponding Guiding Questions and WDYS's.
• Take notes on your Google Form!
• Discuss with your group members what you see in your station's section of the painting.
• When directed, record your observations on the poster paper and read what other groups observed.
• Observations could include:
• Things you see in the image: "I spy..."
• Responses to any of the Guiding Questions
• Connections your reading/vocab:"This remindes me of..."
• Reactions or feelings

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Station 2

Station 1

What do you see?

• What are the buffalo doing?
• What direction are they moving?
• What are the Native Americans doing?

What do you see?

• What is she caring behind her?
• What does this tell us of her goals?

What do you see?

• What elements of technology do you see?
• What direction is it traveling?

What do you see?

• What elements of technology or economics do you see?
• What direction is it traveling?

What do you see?

• What part of the painting is shown here: left or right?
• What direction/area of the country is being shown here?
• What elements of technology and society do you see?
• How does it make you feel?

What do you see?

• What time of day is it?
• What part of the painting is shown here: left or right?
• What direction/area of the country is being shown here?
• What elements of technology and society do you see?
• How does it make you feel?

What do you see?

The beautiful and charming figure is Columbia, wearing the Star of the American Empire, amd wears a stylized toga like the ones imagined to be worn in ancient Greece-the creators of democracy. Columbia is the female personifcation representing the United States.

What do you see?

• What are theses men doing?
• What direction are they travelling?
• What are they carrying? What does this tell us of their goals?
• How far along are they in their journey compared to others?

What do you see?

• What is happening to the wildlife in this image?
• How are they responding to to human interaction?

What do you see?

• What do we see here?
• What direction are they travelling?
• What do you notice on the ground?
• What does it tell us about the journey?

What do you see?

• What elements of technology do you see?
• What direction is it traveling?

What do you see?

• What is she carrying in her right hand?
• What does that tell of her intentions?

What do you see?

• What are the men doing in this part of the image?
• What direction are they moving?
• What elements of technology are they using to accomplish their goal?

What do you see?

• What is happening in this corner of the image?
• What emotions do you thing they are feeling?

• What direction are they moving?

What do you see?

• What is happening in this part of the image?
• What emotions do you thing they are feeling?

• What direction are they moving? Why?