Session 1, Read and notice: Windows into earlier places
Week 25 big question: What changed, and what stayed the same?
Start with a story (optional) Then and Now — Read it hereChiltari asks his father what their city was like long ago.
A photo shows just one time and place.
What would a photo of your lesson show someone years from now? A photo from Washington, D.C., around 1899 holds one such clue. It is a record, something kept that tells about a time. This one shows students looking at globes. Another shows girls studying a reading lesson. Those girls were at Lincoln Bench School in Oregon in 1939.
Both school photos show kids at work on a lesson.
The children had different lessons, but both groups were busy learning. Perhaps you use a globe or a book at a table, too. Or you may learn on a screen and take lessons outside. As you look at these children, compare their schools with yours. Remember, though, that their photos cannot show how every child learned. Nor can they tell us who could not attend those schools.
Some things change, and some stay the same.
People also gathered outside school to share ideas and make choices. A third photo shows a camp council meeting in Farmersville, California, in 1939. Farmworker communities could meet to talk about needs they shared. People still do that today, though buildings, tools, and meeting places may change. When people keep learning and working together, we see continuity. Continuity means something that stays the same through change. Look again at a past record beside something you see today. What changed, and what can you still recognize?
Show what you notice
- How were the two school photos alike? How were they different?
- What does the camp council photo show? What can it not tell us?
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