How have New Hampshire people expressed their views,
and what have they had to say?
 


In addition to the outcomes listed in 11A, 4-6 students should be able to: 
Find out how people expressed ideas and feelings in New Hampshire.
 


1.  Identify, describe, and explain the meanings of the official symbols of the state such as the state seal, the state song, the state bird, state flower, and state flag.

2. Compare paintings by artists from the White Mountain School with views of the actual places; describe the moods the paintings evoke.

3. Choose an event, question, or controversial issue in New Hampshire history and research that question using primary sources such as old New Hampshire newspapers. How did people express their ideas and feelings about the question?

4. Examine editorials from New Hampshire newspapers now and in the past to see what concerns people had in specific eras of New Hampshire history and what they had to say about those concerns.
 

5. Read works by a New Hampshire writer and see how much of the work uses New Hampshire settings and details; summarize what the writer has to say, compare that to what the student thinks, and evaluate the writer's accuracy.
 

6. Visit a museum and identify items created t)y people expressing their ideas or feelings. Try to figure out exactly what the person was trying to say and decide if the person said it successfully.
 

7.  Look at old photographs taken in New Hampshire and try to determine what the photographs tell about the state, about the people in the photograph, about the photographer, and about history. What was the photographer trying to capture in the picture?

8. Use art, literature, music, sculpture, crafts, and popular culture as primary sources to approach a question in New Hampshire history. For example, how have New Hampshire people used and thought about technology?

9. Choose a New Hampshire art or craft and research it using actual examples, written sources, videos, photos, visits to exhibits, and people. Try creating something similar.

10. Choose an item of art or craft. Examine it closely. Describe it carefully. Using the item as evidence, what can be surmised about the artist? The artist's culture? How was the item used? What does it express?

11. Look for scripts of pageants and magazine and newspaper articles about pageants and parades in New Hampshire. Ask older people about parades and pageants they have seen or participated in in New Hampshire. What was the purpose of the pageants? When were they performed? Choose an event to commemorate in a pageant and perform it for a group of elders. After the pageant ask the elders to tell about pageants they have been in or seen.
 

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