Media Literacy: Interpret visual information
Standard Basis:
CCSS ELA Literacy RI.4.7
Task:
Look at two or more of the images linked in the story. Explain in 100- 250 words how the images help you understand the text. Use specific details to support your opinion.
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Kelly Hansen
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- Great Depression
- Stieg Larsson: Behind the Dragon Tattoo
- Irish Potato Famine - The Great Hunger
- Erin Brockovich
- Titanic - The Fatal Voyage
- Unbroken - Louis Zamperini Story
- The Help
- Great Raid, The
- Helen Keller
- Antwone Fisher
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- The Impossible
- Wyatt Earp
- Puritans and The Scarlet Letter
- Sacajawea
- Joan of Arc
- Elizabeth I: The Golden Age
- The Lorax
- Enemy At The Gates
- The King's Speech
- Lusitania Sinking
- Braveheart
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
- Watching Red Birds
- Toeur
- Surprised by Joy
- Success
- Sparks
- Models of Love
- Losing Grandma
- Kids
- Keys to Compromise
- Keepsakes
- I Picture Myself. Me.
- Holding Patterns
- Easing Loneliness
- Daddy
- Best Friends
- A Loose Wire
- Wave Lengths
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Freedom of Religion
- Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
- Irish Patriot: Wolfe Tone
- Miracle on 34th Street
- William Wallace - Infamous Trial
- I Am David
- Flyboys
- School Busing
- Animals as Defendants
- Protestant Bible: A Journey Through Centuries
- Brockovich, Erin
- Changes
- Tears
- Guardian Angels
- The Partners
- Betrayal
- This Day
- How a Single Event Can Change Our Destiny
- Scars
- Dad
- Renewal
- Mere Words
- Happiness
- Blueprints
- The Concept of Faith
- Muhammad the Prophet
- Hammurabi and His Code of Laws
- Vietnam War
- Jurassic Park
- Time
- First Emperor of China
- Respecting Independence
- Galveston and the Great Storm of 1900
- President McKinley - Assassination
- Moneyball
- Virginia Tech Massacre
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Exploring Space: Images from NASA
- Wilhelm Gustloff: Deadliest Shipwreck
- Plessy vs Ferguson: Legal Segregation
- Alexander the Great
- War Horse
- Slave Voices
- Jim Crow Laws
- Pompeii
- Black Death
- Beethoven
- Great Fire of 1871
- Child Labor
- Catch Me If You Can
- Stalingrad: Deadly Battle of WWII
- Star-Spangled Banner
- Tenerife: Deadliest Air Accident
- Leopold and Loeb
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Night at the Museum
- Forgotten Posters of World War II
- The Descendants
- Passion of the Christ
- A Beautiful Mind
- Patriot, The
- Vertical Limit: K2, The Savage Mountain
- Quiet American, The
- Celia, A Slave
- Underground Railroad
- Alamo, The
- Invictus
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Finding Neverland
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- King James I
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Shadow of the Vampire: The Real Dracula
- The Iron Lady
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Ivan the Terrible
- K19 Widowmaker
- The Soloist
- Civil War, U.S. - Unforgettable Sights
- Four Feathers, The
- Inglourious Basterds Movie
- Holocaust Evidence
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Santa Claus
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Water for Elephants
- The Raven
- The Hours
- Road to Perdition
- Men of Honor: Story of Carl Brashear
- Gods and Generals
- Murder at Harvard: John Webster Story
- Troy
- Execution at Boston Common
- Mummies: Bodies Talk
- Getting Sick, Being Well
- Jesse James
- Benedict Arnold
- William Penn: Tried for Sedition
- Alex and Emma
- Penn, William - Jury Goes to Prison
- Amazing Grace
- Thomas Jefferson
- Bobby Kennedy
- Paul Revere: Treason Trial
- Dostoevsky
- Wind that Shakes the Barley
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets
- Hannibal Lecter and Albert Fish
- Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Leader
- Marbury vs Madison
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- Pearl Harbor
- King Arthur
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Attila the Hun
- Pentagon Papers
- Hindenburg
- Marie Antoinette
- Miss Potter
- People Rule
- C.S. Lewis
- Gangs of New York
- Lizzie Borden
- Baseball Cards
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Angels & Demons
- Musketeer, The
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Evelyn: Changing The Law In Ireland
- Vanity Fair
- Florence Maybrick: Death Sentence Commuted
- Packard, Elizabeth - Civil Rights Advocate
- Indiana Jones 4 - Crystal Skull
- U-571
- Snow White
- Children in War
- ARGO
- Normandy Invasion
- Stained Glass Windows
- Conspirator - Mary Surratt
- Errol Flynn and His Famous Trial
- St. Patrick of St. Patrick's Day
- We Were Soldiers
- Agent of Grace
- World Trade Center
- Blow
- Flags Of Our Fathers
- Schenck and Abrams: Free Speech Under Fire
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Rookie, The
- King Kong
- Mary Dyer: A Colonial Execution
- Enigma Machine and Its U-boat Codes
- Legend of Bagger Vance
- Seabiscuit
- Signs - A Story of Crop Circles
- Cold Mountain
- Spanish Flu Pandemic
- Chronicles of Narnia - Series' Author
- Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Public Enemies
- Aviator
- Black Dahlia
- Japanese-American Internment
- Sandy Hook Elementary
- Gladiator
- Book Burning and Censorship
- Amistad Incident
- Magna Carta
- Nicholas and Alexandra
- Political Cartoons
- Shadowlands
- Easter Story
- Regicide: Mary, Queen of Scots
- Susan Anthony: Guilty of Unlawfully Voting
- Ancient Olympics
- Black Hawk Down
- Red Tails
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Pianist, The
- Purgatory and Dante's Divine Comedy
- History of Flight
- Knight's Tale, A
- Wind Talkers: Navajo Code Talkers in WWII
- Brotherhood of the Wolf
- Einstein's Letter
- Challenger Disaster
- Roman Gladiators
- Bagger Vance and the Bhagavad Gita
- Guiteau and the Assassination of President Garfield
- Death of a Tsar: Romanov Execution
- Torture Instruments from Medieval Times
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Fighter, The
- Suffragists: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
- Tombstone
- Pilgrims to America: A Pictorial History
- Go West: U.S. Westward Expansion
- American Colonies
- Cinderella Man
- Remember The Titans
- Hunger Games
- 42 - Jackie Robinson
- 300 - Thermopylae and Rise of an Empire
- Victory in Europe: End of WWII
- Chicago: The Movie
- Jack the Ripper
- Beowulf
- Korean War
- Charlotte's Web
- Daniel Boone
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Beethoven's Hair
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Perfect Storm, The