Session+8

Session 8

Session 8.1 1). Where did you start your drawing? Why? 2). What details did you notice in this picture through trying to draw them yourself? 3). How does this compare to an "I see/It means" activity? What is similar and different? 4). Identify bias in this picture. 5). Which do you prefer: drawing an historical picture or summarizing in words what you see? Why?

1. I started at the building in the far background, because i thought it would be easier to start from the furthest point, and work forward. I detailed the building, and drew the clouds of smoke from the gunshots. After i drew the clouds of gun smoke, I drew a few British soldiers firing gun shots into a crowd of people, and drew a few people on the floor dead, so that the main point could come out, even though my art work isn't the best.

2. The details I noticed were how detailed the soldiers were, and the crowd. The buildings were very detailed as well, and I attempted to detail the best that i could, just so you can get the image as you were looking at it.

3. It compares to an "I see/It means" activity because we were told just to draw anything that stands out to you and start from there. Therefore it's our opinion on what to draw, what stands out to us, and what it means to us because we are re-drawing the picture, which is very similiar because in an "I see/It means" you pick out the important facts just so you can get a better understanding of the picture. It's different because we are actually re-drawing the image, and I think this way i got a better understanding of the picture, because I had to re-draw it, and get a better understanding of the image.

4. Well if you're looking at the picture, you have no idea what was going on. I would have thought that something had to set of the British soldiers to get them to fire, especially because they weren't on their turf. They were in Boston, and not Britian.

5. I really didn't like the thought of re-drawing the picture, but when I was finished, it was almost as I visually summarized the picture in my own mind, and took the important facts and ran with them and showed them, rather than drawing the whole picture and leaving out the minor details that weren't really important. I really did like the whole idea of re-drawing, because i feel like I got a better understanding of the image, and what was going on. And i expressed that in my drawing. 8.2

Share with a partner. Change and revise your answers as necessary in a different color.
 * 1) What time of the day does it look like this event is occurring?
 * 2) Describe the actions of the British soldiers to the right of the picture, what are they doing?
 * 3) Describe the crowd to the left of the picture, what is happening to them?
 * 4) Identify Captain Preston and describe what he appears to be doing
 * 5) What could be the reason for these two very different pictures?
 * 6) If you looked at this picture how would you describe the events of the 5th of March?
 * 7) Do you believe this picture depicts a massacre? Why/why not?
 * 8) List examples of bias in this picture.

1. Looking at the picture, I feel like it's in the night. The picture look dark, and eerrie, and the moon is in the background which kinda tells you it happened sometime after the sun went down.

2. In the picture, I feel like the British soldiers are just huddled around each other, not really doing anything but trying to push the colonist away. There is no attempt of violence shown from the British Soldiers, however the Colonist show violence upon the British.

3. The colonist, are full out going after the British Soldiers and this picture is obviously before the British opened fire. In one hand of a colonist it looks like a piece of wood and he has it almost as he is going to hit one of the soldiers with it, which would be them starting with the Soldiers.

4. Captain Preston looks like he is just standing in front of his men, not saying a word and just kind of trying to protect them, but as you look at the picture you can see other Soldiers fighting back, so was it him just doing nothing, or did he give the order? A question we will never find out.

5. One is from eye whitness, which would be the second picture, and the first picture was by Paul Revere, and he is already on the Colonist side, so he could have favored the Colonist making the picture look like the British were in the wrong.

6. I would describe it as the Colonist starting the whole thing, and would completely understand why the British fired, and their reasoning.

7. No, I would think this picture was self defense, because if the British didn't open fire, what else could have happened? Not for nothing but the Colonist knew the the British had guns, and did they think that they would just sit there and take the abuse? Of course they would open fire, it's a self defense.

8. -Self defense

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