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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
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Additional Tags
social studies
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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