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    This document provides a teacher's guide for analyzing motion pictures as primary sources. It includes sample questions to guide students through observing details in the motion picture, reflecting on its purpose and meaning, and generating questions to investigate further. The guide encourages students to go back and forth between observing, reflecting, and questioning. It also offers follow-up activity ideas for students to write a description, speculate about the motion picture's purpose, or consider how it relates to their existing knowledge of the historical period.

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    OBSERVE

    Analyzing Motion Pictures

    REFL

    Teachers Guide

    BSERVE

    ION

    Guide students with the sample questions as they respond to the


    primary source. Encourage them to go back and forth between the
    columns; there is no correct order.

    REFLECT

    Have students identify and note details.

    QUESTION

    Encourage students to generate and


    test hypotheses about the source.

    Have students ask questions to lead to


    more observations and reflections.

    Describe what you see and hear. What do you

    What was the purpose of this motion picture? Who

    What do you wonder about...

    notice first? Do you only see live action, or are

    do you think created it? Who are the people who

    who? what? when? where? why? how?

    there any special effects or animation? Describe

    appear in it? What tools and materials were used

    any words you see on the screen. What do you

    to create it? Do you think it was filmed on location,

    notice about the length of the motion picture?

    or was there a stage set? Who do you think was

    Does anything about it seem strange or unusual?

    the intended audience? What feelings or ideas do

    What other details do you notice?

    you think its creators wanted to communicate? If

    Sample Questions:

    someone created this motion picture today, what


    would be different?
    F U R T h E R I N V E S T I g AT I O N

    Help students to identify questions appropriate for further investigation, and to develop a research strategy for finding answers.
    Sample Question:

    What more do you want to know, and how can you find out?

    A few follow-up
    activity ideas:

    Beginning
    Have students write a brief description of the motion picture in their
    own words.
    Intermediate
    Speculate about the purpose of the motion picture and what its
    creators expected it to accomplish. Do you think the motion picture
    achieved their goals? Explain why you think so.

    LOC.gov/teachers

    Advanced
    Think about what you already know about this period in history.
    How does this motion picture support or contradict your current
    understanding of this period?

    For more tips on using primary


    sources, go to
    http://www.loc.gov/teachers

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