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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