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A picture is worth a thousand words

Gallery Walk Mediha Din El Camino College Sociology

Today 1. How it works 2. Gallery walk activity 3. Purpose 4. How to adapt this activity in your classroom This Power. Point is available at www. Mediha. Din. weebly. com

How it works Passive learning becomes active

Use images, inquiry, movement in the classroom, and peer interaction to build student interest and increase retention

Images • Particularly of people • Students see real lives behind concepts • Builds human-to-human connections

Primary Source Images Library of Congress website http: //www. loc. gov/index. html

Gallery Walk Directions 1. Walk around and view all of the images 2. After buzzer, stand by the image that interests you most (NO MORE THAN 5 PEOPLE PER IMAGE) 3. With the others at your image answer the following questions: (Try avoiding group members that already sit near you) a) Why did you select this image? b) What do you think is happening in this image? Who? What ? Where? When? c) Why do you think this image was selected for class? d) Select a speaker e) Return to your seats when you hear the buzzer

a) Why did you select this image? b) What do you think is happening in this image? Who? What ? Where? When? c) Why do you think this image was selected for class? d) Select a speaker e) Return to your seats when you hear the buzzer

Chiricahua Apaches as they arrived at Carlisle from Fort Marion, Florida November 4 th, 1886 “Kill the Indian and save the man” ~ Captain Richard Henry Pratt, Founder, Carlisle Indian School, PA

Title: Group of Indian Boys, from Dakota territory, taken after about fifteen month's residence at Hampton, Virginia. March, 1880.

Educating the Indians. Illustration. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated newspaper, 15 March 1884.

Title: View of Ellis Island Looking across water toward immigration station New York 1913.

"Work on the Last Mile of the Pacific Railroad -- Mingling of European with Asiatic Laborers": From Harper's Weekly: Harper's Weekly, Vol. 13 Image created 1869

Chinese immigrants made up 90% of workers on U. S. railroads in mid to late 1800’s. However white workers did not allow Chinese immigrants to be in the photo marking the completion of the railroad to the West Coast

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music The Chinamen must go by H. B. Pasmore. CREATED/PUBLISHED San Francisco: Gibson, J. W. , 1880.

Political cartoon titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things" by Thomas Nast (18401902) published in Harper's Weekly on September 2 nd 1871

1860’s New York. Discrimination against Irish in the job market.

History of Discrimination in Immigration Law Chinese Exclusion Act 1882: excluded Chinese laborers for 10 years Immigration Act of 1921: restrictions Southern and Eastern Europe, quota for each nationality.

Japanese American Internment During World War II Title: Japanese residents at Civil Control station for registration San Francisco April 1942

Japanese American Internment During World War II Title: Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control San Francisco, April 1942

Attorneys for Brown v. Board of Education George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit congratulating each other May 17, 1954. United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional

Ruby Bridges New Orleans, Louisiana 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system. She is known as the first African. American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=4 nrk. Mxor. ZT 4&feature=related

Cesar Chavez 1960’s Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. His work led to numerous improvements for union workers.

Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy Cesar Chavez breaks his 25 -day fast by accepting bread from Senator Robert Kennedy, Delano, California. Left to right: Helen Chavez, Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez March 10, 1968

July 31 st, 2010 Temecula, CA “Small group protests the building of a mosque in Temecula” LA Times

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. ” Quote from Poem Human Family by Maya Angelou

Gallery walk activity promotes • • student inquiry collaboration use of background knowledge critical thinking analytical skills engagement retention

How can I adapt this activity?

How can I adapt this activity?

How can I adapt this activity?

How can I adapt this activity?

How can I adapt this activity?

Activity can be used • icebreaker • introduce the units of a course at the beginning of the semester • assess student prior knowledge • new unit/chapter throughout the semester • review concepts before an exam

How can you use the compass activity in your classroom? 1. What subject do you teach? 2. Do you think you will use the Gallery Walk Activity with your students? 3. If yes: when in the semester? What content might you connect it with? If no: How might you adapt this activity for use with your students?

Logistic Tips: • Paper protectors to reuse the images • Buzzer/Timer • Moving chairs and backpacks

Questions? Contact: Mediha Din Website: www. Mediha. Din. weebly. com Mdin 1029@gmail. com El Camino College, Sociology Thank you very much for your time Please fill out the survey

Gallery Walk Increase student engagement in content that may be historical or knowledge based in nature More tips here: http: //primarysourcenexus. org/2012/04/analyzing -primary-sources-learning-from-images/

Lesson inspired from: The Art of Teaching with Primary Sources: http: //cotsen. org/uclalabschool/tps/ “Using Primary Sources to Support Inquiry in Social Studies” And the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program: http: //www. loc. gov/teachers/

Inquiry-based learning Ask Reflect Investigate Discuss Create

When Filipino American farm workers initiated the Delano grape strike on September 8, 1965 to protest for higher wages, Cesar Chávez eagerly supported them. Oct 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA --Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past demonstrators protesting desegregation at Baltimore high schools.