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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Time to Learn… Time to Practice…

5. 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?

6. What do you see here?

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11. 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?

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

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