Reading Photos, Reading Life Visual Literacy and To Kill a Mockingbird

What is Visual Literacy? Visual Literacy is ability to read non-print visual texts. For example, photographs, paintings, sculptures and movies. When we look at pictures we infer ideas about what is happening and what is not happening in the non-print visual text. These ideas come from the history we know and our own personal thoughts and ideas.

What is the aim of Visual Literacy? The purpose of being able to read a non-print text is to help you make connections between the things you already know to the things you are going to be learning. Being able to make these connections helps you to truly learn and know things.

Time to Learn… Time to Practice…

Reading a Photo… To Read a Photo, you must do the following… Observe the photo for 2 minutes for overall impression and then individual items. Make a list of what you see and don’t see: People, Objects & Activities Make a list of inferences from what you see Make a list of questions the photo raises in you mind Where could you go to find the answers to your questions? http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/photo.html

What do you see here? http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gottlieb:@field(SUBJ+@1(Jazz+dance--1930-1950+))

What do you see here? http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc84.jpg

What do you see here? http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

What do you see here? http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/17/world.in.focus/family.lg.jpg

What do you see here? http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/www/gallery/departmental-images/american_studies/Slave.jpg

What did you learn? What did you learn from these photos? How can you connect these images to To Kill a Mockingbird? How are viewing photographs different than reading a book? Do you get the same information as a textbook?

Reference Dancers in a jazz club, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948]. Gottlieb, William P. 1917- photographer. NOTES Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 098 Original negative not served. Purchase William P. Gottlieb SUBJECTS Dancers--1930-1950. Jazz dance--1930-1950. Portrait photographs--1930-1950. Group portraits--1930-1950. Film negatives--1930-1950. MEDIUM 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. CALL NUMBER LC-GLB13- 0176 <P&P> REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-GLB13-0176 DLC (b&w film neg.) PART OF William P. Gottlieb Collection REPOSITORY negative Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA reference print Library of Congress Music Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID negative) gottlieb 01761 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.01761 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01761 (published print (The Golden Age of Jazz, Pomegranate Artbooks)) gottlieb 01763 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.01763 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01763

Reference http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc84.jpg

Reference http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Reference http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/17/world.in.focus/family.lg.jpg

Reference http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/www/gallery/departmental-images/american_studies/Slave.jpg